The Notice of Race for the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition has been released. The competition begins on 8 August and runs until 18 August at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Notice of Race states the ...

Tricky, variable, challenging; these words were used over and over again in press conferences and interviews by the sailors who competed on Guanabara Bay. With seven racecourse areas placed around the ...

In two years, the 2016 Paralympics will open in Rio de Janeiro, including some 4,350 athletes from 160 nations in 22 sports. The Rio Paralympics will run from Sept. 7-18, beginning 17 days after the ...

Since the modern Olympics began in 1896, over 200 national teams have vied for glory at the Summer and Winter Games. In 2016, for the first time, a team of refugees competed as well. At the 2016 ...

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 ...

The 16-month project began with designers researching each sport before creating the first strokes by hand. These were then reconstructed on a computer, fitting the contours of the letters. The ...

A Brazilian judge has ordered the closure of Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Park from today on safety grounds. The complex includes the abandoned site of the pool in which we witnessed the last stand of ...

Four weight classes were in action on Day Three of the Rio 2016 Boxing Competition, with eight crucial bouts deciding the quarter-finalists at Light Flyweight (49kg) and Heavyweight (91kg) as well ...

Carolina Marin has announced her retirement from professional badminton, concluding a brilliant career that included an ...

All 36 boxing judges and referees from the Rio 2016 Olympic games will be barred from officiating in Tokyo next year, an International Olympic Committee task force announced Wednesday. Every judge was ...