Olympic Games in Brazil (Rio: 2009-2016): the host city, olympism and women

The article aimed to analyze of the news on Rio 2016 Olympic Games published by the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, this article sought to construct a history of the present time of this event. The methodology used was a multifactorial treatment of this historical of the Present Time (Chauveau & Tétart, 1999), with emphasis on the general and periodical press. We found the Rio-2016 Olympic Games were marked by three axes of impact on the history of the Olympics: the exhaustion of the host city model for an edition of the event, Olympism crisis, and the growing participation of women in the Olympic Movement.