High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics was a successful campaign to host the Games of the XXXI Olympiad and the Games of the XV Paralympiad, respectively. It was submitted on September 13, 2007, and recognized as an Applicant city by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on September 14, 2007. On June 4, 2008, the IOC Executive Board shortlisted Rio de Janeiro with three of the six other Applicant cities—Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo; over Baku, Doha and Prague—becoming a Candidate city during a meeting in Athens, Greece.