Neymar to lead Brazil’s Operation Olympic Medals

Football superstar Neymar will lead Brazil s charge for gold awards at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics as the nation looks to overlook its political and monetary soul. 

The nation of 200 million individuals confronts an anxious 100-day commencement to the begin of the Games where it is depending on winning around 30 awards. That would place it in the main 10 brandishing powers for the principal Olympics to be held in South America. 

The Olympic light set off Thursday from Athens on a meandering visit through Greece, in the long run twisting through scores of Brazilian urban areas before touching base at Rio s Maracana Stadium for the August 5 opening service. 

Brazil won a record 17 awards at the 2012 London Olympics. That year, the administration dispatched Operation Brazil Medals, putting around one billion reals ($280 million/250 million euros) into preparing offices for potential Olympic victors. 

"In the previous three years, Brazil has taken in front of the rest of the competition in 15 world occasions, which is a piece of our arrangement," Marcus Vinicius Freire, official chief of game for the Brazilian Olympic Committee, told a remote media office. 

Brazil, the best football country, has never won the men s Olympic soccer gold. They lost to Mexico in the 2012 last. 

In any case, it has arranged an arrangement with Barcelona so that Neymar will play in the Olympics yet be refreshed for the Copa America Centennial in the United States in June. 

The nation has still not got over its appalling 7-1 rout by Germany in the 2014 World Cup semi-last in Rio. National mentor Dunga might be accountable for the Olympic side if the Copa battle goes well. 

Brazil s ladies have likewise never won an Olympic or world title and drove by the unbelievable Marta, now 30 and in presumably her last offer for grandness, trust this is their turn. 

Brazil endured a blow when Cesar Cielo, the nation s just Olympic swimming gold champ, neglected to fit the bill for Rio. 

The 29-year-old, who took the 50-meter free-form at the 2008 Beijing Games, was beaten in his most loved challenge by Italo Manzine Duarte and Bruno Fratus. 

Fratus is viewed as a genuine contender for the Rio Games alongside Felipe Franca in the 100m breaststroke. 

Etiene Medeiros — Brazil s best ladies s swimmer ever, who set a 50m backstroke world record at the 2014 big showdowns in Doha — ought to likewise be viewed. 

Furthermore, the nation has sports where — excepting more disasters — it knows it can depend on achievement. 

Robert Scheidt, who has two golds, two silvers and a bronze from laser class yachting at five Olympic Games, "will be our greatest shot of an award," as per Marco Aurelio, president of the Brazilian Yachting Federation. 

Martin Grael and Kahena Kunze won the 2014 big showdowns in the 49er FX class and are likewise some portion of Brazil s arrangement. 

In shoreline volleyball, Larissa Franca, the best ladies s player ever, has left retirement to collaborate with Talita Antunes to offer for Rio gold. 

Alison Ceruti, who won silver in London, is a hot contender in the men s challenge on the incredible Copacabana Beach with his new accomplice Bruno Schmidt. 

Two time best on the planet Isaquias Queiroz is a most loved in the sprint kayak challenges. 

Arthur Zanetti is ruling Olympic acrobatic rings champion and beat title holder Eleftherios Petrounias at the Rio test occasion a week ago. He is depending on home point of interest to give another lift. 

"The vitality of the group helps a great deal. It gives me quality," he said as of late. 

Be that as it may, the Brazil Medals Plan has not been all smooth cruising. 

The 16 awards won in all games at the big showdowns in 2015 is the same number as the year prior to the London Olympics. 

Volleyball and judo, regularly two Brazilian qualities, have been huge disillusionments. 

Brazil s men s volleyball group lost the world association a year ago to France. The ladies face serious rivalry from the United States. 

Brazil s judokas won four awards in London. In any case, the warriors have subsequent to been losing sessions. Brazil is looking mostly to its ladies — Mayra Aguiar, Sarah Menezes, Erica Miranda and Rafaela Silva — to lead a battle back in Rio. 

Marcus Vinicus Freire — who took a silver decoration at the 1984 volleyball challenge in Los Angeles — tipped wrestling, toxophilism, water polo and tennis, current pentathlon and boxing as different regions where Brazil could overlook its inconveniences.