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For the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, North & South Carolina’s WYCW-TV 62 is making sure their audience gets a good sense of the spirit of Brazil, with the help of Cordão de Ouro’s Contra-Mestre Neguinho and his Upstate Capoeira group.

The worldwide focus this summer is also the hottest topic in capoeira: the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Arts and culture magazine VICE has lent its voice to the conversation, through its series Daily VICE.

In a recent article, international magazine OkayAfrica.com points out the heavy European tilt of official Olympic sports and proposes seven African sports to consider for the worldwide competitive stage—chief among them, capoeira.

The Body Sphere is a fascinating weekly program about “the ways we use our bodies to create and compete, nurture and abuse, display and conceal”, published by Australian broadcaster ABC. It recently featured an episode that split its time between taekwondo, one of two Olympic martial arts, and Brazil’s capoeira. While not directly contrasted in the episode, listeners will no doubt notice the juxtaposition of the two art forms as talk of capoeira’s rich cultural heritage…

With the 2016 Summer Olympics, the world’s focus on Rio de Janeiro has never been greater. The big media players are making sure they provide consumers with a relentless buffet of content surrounding not only the Olympics itself, but Brazil’s varied and colorful culture. Capoeiristas know the importance of capoeira in Brazil’s identity, but its presence in the media remains a novelty at best.