RIO DE JANEIRO – Athletes in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human faeces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in ...

In seeking to host the Summer Olympics, Brazil promised “green games for a blue planet.” It pledged to clean up waterways ...

Russia wins synchronized swimming gold in women’s team, beating China. Japan wins bronze. The 2016 Olympic Games run from Aug ...

Doesn’t feel like it, but it’s been nine years since the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The final Olympiad for Michael Phelps. The trifecta of Katie Ledecky. Mack Horton’s epic defeat of Sun ...

While the vast majority of Olympic hopefuls are continuing on for Tokyo in 2021, Rio Olympic swimming medalist Pieter Timmers decided that he will not. Timmers, the 2016 Olympic 100m freestyle silver ...

Pernille Blume is expecting her first child 10 years after winning the 50 free at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The Dane revealed the happy news on social media, saying: “Ten years ago I ...

They may not be in the prime of their careers, but the crop of athletes at both ends of the age spectrum often provide ...