Fiji will have an extra public holiday to celebrate the country's first ever Olympic medal after its rugby sevens team won gold in Rio, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama announced on Friday.

Chinese Olympic women's swimmer Chen Xinyi tested positive for a banned substance at the Rio Olympics on August 7, state media said, citing the country's swimming association.

Michael Phelps swept to a jaw-dropping 22nd Olympic gold on Thursday to become one of only three athletes to have won titles in the same individual event at four straight Games.

A Kazakh weightlifter who has served a two-year doping ban smashed a world record to stun China’s Lyu Xiaojun and grab Olympic gold at the men’s 77kg weightlifting in Rio on Wednesday.

Defending champion Andy Murray survived a huge scare to reach the Olympic Games quarter-finals yesterday, coming back from 3-0 down in the deciding set to defeat Italy’s Fabio Fognini.

Britain’s Jack Laugher and Chris Mears turned Rio’s green-water controversy to their advantage to win a first-ever British gold medal in Olympic diving by upsetting China on Wednesday.

Star shuttlers Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu were the lone bright spots as India endured another dismal day at the ongoing Rio Olympics with archers Deepika Kumari and Laishram Bombayla Devi crashing out while the men’s hockey team went down fighting to the Netherlands here yesterday.

Step aside, Neymar. There’s a new number 10 in Brazil.

Brazil’s newest football hero Gabriel Barbosa struck twice as the hosts finally got their Olympic campaign rolling with a 4-0 demolition of Denmark on Wednesday, while their arch-rivals Argentina crashed out.

Thousands of vitriolic comments left on Australian swimmer Mack Horton’s Instagram account have been deleted by the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC).

Dmitry Balandin of Kazakhstan stole up in an outside lane to snatch a shock victory in the men’s 200 metres breaststroke on Wednesday as the Central Asian country grabbed two Olympic gold medals in the space of an hour.

Mireia Belmonte won the 200 metres butterfly on Wednesday to become the first Spanish woman to win an Olympic swimming gold medal.