There were many great performances to cheer at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, but the games also had their unfortunate issues and ugly events.
Rio Olympics: The Great, The Not-So Good, And The Ugly
![People rejoiced in the new country of Kosovo -- independent only since 2008 -- when Majlinda Kelmendi won the nation's first medal ever, getting a gold in judo.](https://gdb.rferl.org/008892d6-f7b2-4e7b-ac92-fcbd2317d4b7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People rejoiced in the new country of Kosovo -- independent only since 2008 -- when Majlinda Kelmendi won the nation's first medal ever, getting a gold in judo.
![Tajik fans reportedly overwhelmed hammer-thrower Dilshod Nazarov's Facebook page after he won a gold medal -- the country's first since Andrey Abduvaliev won gold in Barcelona in 1992 throwing the mallet for the Unified Team of the former U.S.S.R.](https://gdb.rferl.org/d86ffc4d-3dd5-4471-bc20-d2365f866bbe_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Tajik fans reportedly overwhelmed hammer-thrower Dilshod Nazarov's Facebook page after he won a gold medal -- the country's first since Andrey Abduvaliev won gold in Barcelona in 1992 throwing the mallet for the Unified Team of the former U.S.S.R.
![The doping issue crept into the games in Rio when a handful of athletes -- including medal-winners Izzat Artykov of Kyrgyzstan (pictured), and Serghei Tarnovschi of Moldova -- had their medals stripped and were kicked out of the Olympics.](https://gdb.rferl.org/0db6b9b5-232e-4169-aff4-85e6f6dbde04_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The doping issue crept into the games in Rio when a handful of athletes -- including medal-winners Izzat Artykov of Kyrgyzstan (pictured), and Serghei Tarnovschi of Moldova -- had their medals stripped and were kicked out of the Olympics.
![Rio officials were unable to explain why so many events at the Olympics had very sparse attendance, evident to millions of TV viewers who saw half-full arenas and stadiums, perhaps most glaringly during the track-and-field competitions that in previous Olympics have always been jam packed.](https://gdb.rferl.org/f04f240a-5d07-4fa4-851b-e2c73c4a91be_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Rio officials were unable to explain why so many events at the Olympics had very sparse attendance, evident to millions of TV viewers who saw half-full arenas and stadiums, perhaps most glaringly during the track-and-field competitions that in previous Olympics have always been jam packed.