The next Olympics will start this year in Rio de Janeiro. The cost of the games is expected to cost $11 billion! Thats a lot of money! The Olympics will last from August 5th to the 21, with almost 11,000 of the worlds best athletes competing, from 206 countries. An expected audience will be 4.3 billion to watch on the TV. The Olympics Games date back to ancient Greece. Pierre de Coubertin founded the first modern Olympics. He hoped that the games would promote peace among nations. The next Olympics will be in 2020. I hope you watch both games!