A new course in the seaside region of Barra in Rio de Janeiro will host the golf tournament at the 2016 Olympics.The Royal & Ancient governing ...

Gisele Bündchen shared an adorable throwback video of her daughter Vivian recreating her 2016 Olympics cameo. The model ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro's victorious bid to host the 2016 Olympics should give Brazil's ruling party a boost and benefit the economy, although the size of the impact is hard to gauge. * ...

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. Gold was mined without the use of ...

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 2016 Summer Olympics concluded Sunday night in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as some of the final medals were awarded during the closing ceremony. Speaking of medals, the U.S. finished with a ...

At the swimming state meet in February, two swimmers took a break from their rapturous cheering and craned their necks to see the list of pool records behind them at the University of Delaware's ...

Brazil is likely to lose more than $15 billion on the Olympics. — -- The start of the Olympics in Rio this week has been shadowed by a storm of bad news — not including a Zika outbreak that ...

Seven athletes from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, including one bronze medalist, tested positive for doping in fresh ...

The team first debuted at the 2016 Rio Olympics and has since tripled in size. Yusra Mardini escaped the Syrian civil war in August 2015. She went from Syria to Lebanon and then to Turkey, and from ...

Rio 2016 Olympic Games: After making history at Rio 2016 by defending his 800 metres title, David Rudisha reflected on Kenya's doping issues. David Rudisha conceded doping has been a "big problem" in ...

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 ...