Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim made it to tonight’s high jump final after a 2.29m effort in yesterday’s qualifying competition.

Jebet runs Asian record of 8min 59.75sec, narrowly missing out on world record

Sharon van Rouwendaal romped to 10km open water gold at the Olympics yesterday as the course layout sparked more controversy at the under-fire Copacabana beach venue.

‘It was weird because we finished the semis yesterday which were a real scrap’

‘This is not decided. In the second half we played very well. It’s important to win away from home against an opponent as good as Sevilla’

‘For the next two seasons I think he can be phenomenal for the team... Cantona was here at the best moment in his career. This guy (Ibrahimovic) is more than a player’

Armed with his girlfriend’s rifle, Olympic champion Niccolo Campriani narrowly won his second gold of the Games on Sunday at the men’s 50 metre rifle three positions event, making Italy the most successful country in the Rio shooting competition.

Ryan Lochte initially resisted a group of armed men posing as police who robbed the Olympic gold medallist and three fellow American swimmers in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Lochte said in an interview.

Rio de Janeiro: China ensured top place in the weightlifting medals table for the fifth successive Olympic Games when Meng Suping won her nation’s fifth gold on Sunday.

Gold medallists Nijat of Kazakhstan, Iran’s Moradi and Srisurat of Thailand all spent two years banned from the sport

Bahrain's Ruth Jebet blew away the competition to win the women's 3,000 metres steeplechase gold on Sunday, but narrowly missed out on the world record.

Swimmer Joseph Schooling got a rapturous welcome, a selfie with the prime minister and a four-year exemption from military service when he came home in triumph early Monday with Singapore's first Olympic gold medal.