Brazilian police on Wednesday arrested top International Olympic Committee member Patrick Hickey over illegal sales of Rio Olympics tickets.
A jaguar featured at an Olympic torch ceremony was shot dead by a soldier shortly after the event in the Brazilian Amazon city of Manaus as the animal escaped from its handlers ...
Russia have included Maria Sharapova in their Olympic tennis team despite the star player being suspended over a positive test for the banned drug meldonium, the country's tennis federation said on Thursday.
The Olympic flame that will burn in Rio in August for the first Games in South America was handed over to Brazil yesterday...
Olympic superstar Michael Phelps (pictured) kicked off the Orlando Pro Swim meet Thursday with a victory in the 100m butterfly in 52.28sec.
Mo Farah said he was determined to end his medal-laden track career with a flourish after continuing his Olympic preparations with victory in the 3,000 metres at the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix on Saturday.
An Olympic gold medal in Rio will be about as close to perfection as a heptathlete can come these days, top Games contender Brianne Theisen-Eaton believes.
The Olympics will remain on the BBC until at least 2024 after the corporation agreed a deal with the US broadcasting giant Discovery to sub-licence the rights.
Kuwait's appeals court Monday cleared top sports executive and prominent royal family member Sheikh Ahmad Fahad Al-Sabah of charges of insulting the judiciary.
