Athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympics will be taking home bits of recycled mirrors, car parts, and X-ray plates in their medals as part of design aimed at sustainability. Athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympics ...

It was an interesting, unpredictable day in Rio. There's as much news happening away from the venues as there is inside of it. From Ryan Lochte going Jason Bourne and getting out of a foreign country ...

On Friday 5 August, the Refugee Olympic Team will walk into the Opening Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and embark on an inspiring journey as the first refugee team in the history of the modern ...

The Rio Olympics is officially underway. After an evening of bright lights, visual story-telling, fireworks, dancing and ...

Simone Biles’ former coach revealed that the superstar gymnast experienced the “twisties” ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics, according to ESPN. Aimee Boorman, who coached Biles from age 7 through the Rio ...

All she does is win, win, win! Team USA swimming star Katie Ledecky has won 14 Olympic medals to date, since scoring her first gold as a newbie at the 2012 Olympics in London. Since then, she's had ...

It’s one thing for NBC to delay the start of its coverage of Friday night’s Opening Ceremonies, it’s quite another to air just about as many commercials as actual footage of the event. The exact ...

The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro start Friday. Rio de Janeiro is the first city in South America to host the Olympics, which run through Aug. 21. Here’s a look at the telling Olympic numbers ...

During the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Simone Biles cemented her place as the greatest gymnast of all time. Biles added three more golds and a silver to her career medal count, becoming the most decorated ...

Rio Olympics 2016: Oldest U.S. swimmer Anthony Ervin pulls upset with 50 freestyle gold by 0.01 seconds After winning gold in Sydney 16 years ago, American veteran Anthony Ervin was back atop the ...

Great Britain's women have won a first Olympic hockey gold medal by beating defending champions the Netherlands in a dramatic shootout. The final finished 3-3 in normal time, with Britain's keeper ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Seven athletes from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, including one bronze medalist, tested positive for doping in fresh analysis of their samples, the International ...