Stats, facts and more on the athletes to watch for this year. — -- More than 11,000 athletes will be competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. Here are stats, facts and more on 28 athletes ...

Editor’s note: Simone Biles and the U.S. women's gymnastics team won the Olympic gold meda l in the team final. Biles has competed in two other Olympic Games: the 2016 Rio Olympics and the ...

The decision to leave WNBA legend and former Tennessee star Candace Parker off the U.S. national women's basketball team for the 2016 Rio Olympics is still puzzling, eight years later. Parker, who was ...

Even the fastest woman over 400m hurdles knows what it feels like to hit a wall. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has never ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Known as Brazil’s wonderful city – ‘Cidade Maravilhosa’ – Rio de Janeiro provides a one-of-a-kind setting for the 69th playing of the ECP Brazil Open, the first PGA TOUR ...

NEW DELHI: Olympic medallist pugilist M C Mary Kom said on Monday she has decided to quit boxing after the 2016 Rio Olympic Games as her body would not be able to cope with the rigours of the sport ...

This summer, she hopes to travel to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, as part of a team representing millions of refugees fleeing war and persecution throughout the world. “I’m going to make them ...

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Temporary power supplier Aggreko has pulled out of a tender to provide generators to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro next year, the spokesman for Rio 2016 told Reuters, ...