Despite financial and organisational problems that have delayed other construction projects for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the largest athletes' village ...
Qatar, along with Chinese Taipei and European Championship runners-up Slovenia, are all set to make their debut in the 27th edition of the FIVB World League.
A group of Russian sports stars has appealed to the International Olympic Committee to let athletes with no history of doping compete at the Rio Games in August, days ahead of a ruling on Russia’s ban from world athletics.
Rio de Janeiro will benefit from hosting the Olympic Games, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach said as Brazil struggles to cope with its worst recession in decades.
Russian Olympic swimmer Yana Martynova has been banned for four years for taking a banned substance, the country’s anti-doping agency said yesterday, as it grapples with a slew of drug allegations.
Scandal-hit Russia will discover tomorrow if it has done enough to get back into world track and field’s governing body, the IAAF, in time for its athletes to compete at the Rio Olympics.
Olympic gold medallist Renaud Lavillenie heads to Stockholm for today’s Diamond League meeting intent on firing a warning to his rivals weeks ahead of the Rio Games.
Ethiopian running great Kenenisa Bekele has railed against his “unfair” exclusion from the country’s marathon team for the Rio Olympics, adding to the growing discontent at the athletics federation’s management.
Formula One takes a step into the unknown this weekend with its first Grand Prix in Azerbaijan but triple world champion Lewis Hamilton hopes the race will take him back to familiar territory.