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Newly crowned Olympic champion wants Russia barred from Rio Games

Newly crowned Olympic champion wants Russia barred from Rio Games

Australian race walker Jared Tallent has said it would be a disgrace to have to compete at the Rio de Janeiro Games in August against the man who cheated him out of London Olympic gold.
Olympics-Rio Games countdown starts with Olympia torch lighting

Olympics-Rio Games countdown starts with Olympia torch lighting

Two dead after new bike lane collapses in Rio

Two dead after new bike lane collapses in Rio

Olympics-South Korea seeks Zika protection in Rio, Brits go patriotic

Olympics-South Korea seeks Zika protection in Rio, Brits go patriotic

South Korean athletes will make their Rio Olympics entrance covered up in long sleeves and trousers, uniforms its designers say were made to protect them from Zika-carrying mosquitoes.
April 27, 2016 | 07:24 am PT
Ennis-Hill concerned over Zika threat at Rio Games

Ennis-Hill concerned over Zika threat at Rio Games

Britain's world and Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill is deeply concerned about the threat of the Zika virus in Brazil ahead of this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
April 28, 2016 | 12:40 am PT
Syrian bomb victim to carry Olympic torch

Syrian bomb victim to carry Olympic torch

A victim of the war in Syria who was once a competitive swimmer, will take part in the Olympic torch relay in Greece to raise awareness to the plight of refugees from his homeland. A 27-year-old Syrian refugee who was granted asylum in Greece will be a torch-bearer for the Rio Games and will run with the Olympic flame through a refugee camp in Athens next week.Ibrahim al-Hussein crossed the Aegean sea on a rubber boat from Turkey to Greece in 2014 after fleeing fighting in Syria which cost him part of his leg in a bombing, the Hellenic Olympic Committee and the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said.He has been given asylum in Greece, the main route into Europe since 2015 for more than a million people from conflict-wracked or poor countries in the Middle-East, Asia and Africa.Al Hussein now works in a cafe in Athens. The son of a swimming coach, he and many of his 13 siblings swam competitively from the age of five. He used a suspension bridge in the city of Deir ez-Zor as a diving board until it was destroyed during the war.His right leg was amputated from the mid-calf down and he now walks with a prosthetic leg that a private doctor arranged for him to receive for free.In Athens, al-Hussein trains as a swimmer at a former Olympic sport complex for the Athens 2004 Games and also plays for a wheelchair basketball team in an Athens suburb."The whole thing was like a test," he says of losing his leg."Not a small thing to go through. At first I didn't accept it, but finally I came to terms with it. I lived like there's nothing wrong and I'm still doing that. The truth is I've lost my leg but I'm just like everyone else."He once dreamed of competing in the Olympics but his athletics career was ended by the war and his injury.He said bearing the Olympic flame would be an honour, and he would carry it for all Syrians and r
May 1, 2016 | 05:47 pm PT
Flame lands in troubled Brazil for 94-day relay to Games

Flame lands in troubled Brazil for 94-day relay to Games

President Dilma Rousseff lit the Olympic torch in Brazil's capital and pledged that political turmoil engulfing her nation would not harm the first Games to be held in South America.
May 3, 2016 | 05:23 pm PT
CBS report: Russian gold medallists used steroids at Sochi Olympics

CBS report: Russian gold medallists used steroids at Sochi Olympics

CBS News says the former head of Russia's drug testing laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov has told whistleblower Vitaly Stepanov that at least four of Russia's gold medal winners at the 2014 Winter Olympics were using steroids, according to an interview to be aired on Sunday.
May 6, 2016 | 11:24 pm PT
Rio 2016: Kyrgios defends Tomic, unperturbed by Games warning

Rio 2016: Kyrgios defends Tomic, unperturbed by Games warning

Nick Kyrgios has defended compatriot Bernard Tomic against allegations of failing to try during a match and said it was up to the Australian Olympic Committee whether the pair were picked to represent the country at the Rio Olympics.
May 9, 2016 | 07:20 pm PT
New Rio metro line to work at half capacity during Olympics

New Rio metro line to work at half capacity during Olympics

A new metro line promised for the 2016 Olympics will be open just days before the event begins and only then at half the promised capacity, Rio de Janeiro state's transport secretary Rodrigo Goulart said on Friday.
May 13, 2016 | 06:44 pm PT
Australia's Starpharma, Ansell to supply anti-Zika condoms for Olympics

Australia's Starpharma, Ansell to supply anti-Zika condoms for Olympics

Australian pharmaceutical company Starpharma Holdings Ltd said it is teaming up with world No. 2 condom maker Ansell Ltd to supply Zika virus-proof condoms to the Australian Olympic team ahead of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro games.
May 15, 2016 | 08:41 pm PT
New research finds low risk of Zika virus at Olympics

New research finds low risk of Zika virus at Olympics

New research attempting to calculate the risk of the Zika virus at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro may reassure organizers and many of the more than 500,000 athletes and fans expected to travel to the epicenter of the epidemic.
June 7, 2016 | 04:58 am PT
Olympics-Australian Paralympic sailor robbed at gunpoint in Rio

Olympics-Australian Paralympic sailor robbed at gunpoint in Rio

An Australian Paralympic sailor and team official were robbed at gunpoint while training in Rio de Janeiro at the weekend, raising fears about the security of athletes and tourists in the leadup to the Olympic Games.
June 20, 2016 | 08:38 pm PT
Michael Phelps becomes the first male U.S. swimmer to make five consecutive Olympics

Michael Phelps becomes the first male U.S. swimmer to make five consecutive Olympics

Michael Phelps, who came out of retirement in 2014 and rededicated himself to the pool, punched his ticket to the Rio Games on Wednesday by winning the 200 metres butterfly at the U.S. Olympic trials.
June 29, 2016 | 05:23 pm PT
Kids, beer bottles and a public pool - how Laos swimmer, 14, trains for Rio

Kids, beer bottles and a public pool - how Laos swimmer, 14, trains for Rio

A teenager is desperately trying to train for the Rio Olympics.
July 30, 2016 | 06:56 pm PT
Shooter secures Vietnam's first Olympic gold medal

Shooter secures Vietnam's first Olympic gold medal

Aside from bagging the history-making gold medal, he has also broken the Olympic record.
August 6, 2016 | 01:16 pm PT
Shooting: Vietnamese rejoice at first Olympic gold

Shooting: Vietnamese rejoice at first Olympic gold

'Vietnamese sport has begun a new chapter'.
August 7, 2016 | 02:26 am PT
Vietnam shooter makes history with second Olympic medal

Vietnam shooter makes history with second Olympic medal

Hoang Xuan Vinh bags the silver just four days after winning Vietnam's first gold medal.
August 10, 2016 | 08:17 am PT
Vietnam officials under fire for taking coaches' places in Rio Olympics

Vietnam officials under fire for taking coaches' places in Rio Olympics

The officials are accused of capitalizing on their positions for a free trip to Brazil.
August 15, 2016 | 05:00 am PT
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