Two US Olympic swimmers flew home from Brazil on Thursday after a local crowd jeered them, calling them "liars" and "fakes", and police accused them of fabricating a story about being robbed at gunpoint during the Rio Games.
Brazilian police detained two US swimmers and arrested a top International Olympic Committee official as scandal overshadowed the Rio Games and Usain Bolt's progress toward a new gold.
Russia's Paralympic Committee on Monday vowed to fight its ban from the Rio Games over state-sponsored doping and insisted it was committed to fighting the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport.
US teenager Virginia Thrasher claimed the first Rio Olympics gold medal with her final shot in the shooting on Saturday.
Olympics chief Thomas Bach called for a complete overhaul of the global anti-doping system on Tuesday after revelations of state-backed cheating by Russia rocked preparations for the Rio Games.
Brazil's interim President Michel Temer is optimistic that the country will stage a successful Rio Games, despite facing health and financial turmoil ahead of the Aug. 5-21 Olympics.
Athletics' governing body the IAAF and the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) have agreed to let the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rule on ...
Qatari officials said on Tuesday they hoped to send a record number of female athletes to the Rio Games as they unveiled the country's largest ever Olympic squad.
