International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Patrick Hickey, arrested in Brazil this week as part of an investigation into illegal ticket sales, has not yet been heard by a judge and should be presumed innocent, IOC President Thomas Bach said on Saturday.

Nine Australian Olympic athletes were detained overnight and fined for tampering with their identity cards to be able to watch their home country's basketball semi-final, officials said Saturday.

Usain Bolt bid farewell to the Olympics by powering to a record third straight sweep of the sprint medals and a final chance to declare himself ‘the greatest.’

History-maker Usain Bolt said he deserves to be among sport’s all-time greats after romping to a third straight Olympic 200m gold.

The United States grasped their second chance to reach the Olympic women’s 4x100 metres final with both hands on Thursday, racing alone around the Rio track in 41.77 seconds to knock China out of the last eight.

Slovakia’s Matej Toth made a decisive break 2km from the line to add Olympic gold to his world title as he won the 50km race walk yesterday.

American Ryan Crouser hurled the longest throw of his life to win the men’s shot put final on Thursday, breaking the Olympic record and snatching gold.

Dalilah Mohamed powered to a brilliant victory in the women’s 400m hurdles Thursday to become the first winner of the event from the United States in Olympic history.

American Ashton Eaton equalled the Olympic record when retaining his decathlon crown on Thursday, but he was pushed all the way by France’s Kevin Mayer.

Nick Skelton of Britain poses with his gold medal on the podium for Jumping Individual at the Olympic Equestrian Centre in Rio de Janeiro yesterday.

Croatian Sara Kolak won the Olympic women’s javelin final on Thursday, dashing Czech Barbora Spotakova’s dreams of becoming the first woman to win three consecutive gold medals in the same individual athletics event.

Wayde van Niekerk said he’s given clean athletes a boost with his blistering 400m world record — and admitted that even he didn’t believe such a time was possible without drugs.