The Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games[1][2] (Portuguese: Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paralímpicos Rio 2016)[3] was the organizing committee for the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brazil. It was also known as the Rio 2016 Organising Committee[4] (Comitê Organizador Rio 2016) or simply Rio 2016.