After taking a year off following the Rio Olympics, Simone Biles returned to competition and continued her dominant ... Osaka’s set to make her first appearance at the Tokyo Games, and she’ll get to ...

Yesterday we posted a story on the furore surrounding the logo for the Rio 2016 Olympics, which was unveiled on New Year’s Eve. Today we take a closer look at the work itself. Yesterday we posted a ...

SAITAMA--Marco Asensio struck in an extra-time winner as Spain ended Japan's hopes of Olympic gold ... 1992 but will first have to deal with the Rio winners from five years ago.

Rio was a pile-up of problems ahead of the Olympics, but no one expected the pool water to be green. Unfinished stadiums? Sure. Robbed athletes? Why not. Toxic waters by the beach? Com zerteza!

The Mario Filho (Maracana) stadium in Rio de Janeiro. It will host the upcoming Confederations Cup, the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics Construction is expected to begin in 2014 and will ...

Cities pay billions of dollars to host the Olympics. But is it worth it? Rio estimated the 2016 Olympics would cost $3 billion. Instead, the final cost was closer to $13 billion. The city had to ...

Wrestling will be fighting to prove its relevance in Rio after battling back from the brink of Olympic extinction. One of the key sports at the ancient Olympics ... medal for Japan's Kaori ...

In seeking to host the Summer Olympics, Brazil promised “green games for a blue planet.” It pledged to clean up waterways around future Olympic sites, including a lagoon in front of the ...

The swift goal came courtesy of the team’s 24-year-old captain Neymar, who has had a rather lackluster showing so far in the Rio Olympics. His own fans even booed him during the group rounds.

PARIS--Haruka Kitaguchi won the women's javelin on Saturday with her first throw of 65.80 metres to earn Japan's first gold ... overtook her immediately, and Rio winner Sara Kolak (63.40) of ...

This year’s Rio Olympics has the power to remind investors of Brazil’s potential and reunite ... The country’s main export destinations are China ($46.1bn), the US ($25.2bn), Argentina ($19.3bn), the ...