rio de janeiro is hosting the 2016 olympics and will feature a variety of sailing events for visitors and locals to take part in - this sporting series is highly anticipated by locals since brasillians are hisortically known to be strong sailers and their city is surrounded by ocean.

for more information on the 2016 olympics sailing modality individuals can take a look at the world sailling organization's site or the official olympic webpage . furthermore, in january of 2017 one of the largest saililng competitions in the southern hemisphere will take place from cape town to rio de janeiro - cape2rio is a highly anticipated yearly event.