Preparations for the Olympics are ongoing worldwide, here US gymnast Sam Mikulak applies chalk to his hands as he prepares to compete on the rings at the US Olympic gymnastics trials in San Jose, California. Share your Olympics countdown pictures. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters
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…up to 200,000 people angry with high costs and poor public services took to the streets. Protesters in Rio de Janeiro burned...
