Stats, facts and more on the athletes to watch for this year. — -- More than 11,000 athletes will be competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. Here are stats, facts and more on 28 athletes ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Shaking to samba and sharing reflections in uniquely Brazilian ways, Olympians and fans said goodbye to the Rio Games with one last big bash that was both revelatory and a sigh of ...

Even the fastest woman over 400m hurdles knows what it feels like to hit a wall. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has never ...

With only one American boxer fighting in Sessions 1, Carlos Zenon Balderas Jr. did what was needed to take a 29-28 decision over Kazakstan’s Berik Abdrakhmanov in the opening round of the men’s ...

It is time to light the Olympic Torch in a tropical country,” Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as it gathered in Copenhagen to select a site ...

Former world professional champion Amnat Ruenroeng, one of the top Thai bets for a boxing medal in the 2016 Olympics, was battered into submission by a French amateur in their last-16 clash on ...

Brazilian soccer great Pele says his poor health will keep him from lighting the Olympic cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics. In a statement on Friday, Pele said: "I'm not physically ...

During the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Simone Biles cemented her place as the greatest gymnast of all time. Biles added three more golds and a silver to her career medal count, becoming the most decorated ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- With violence raising concerns about security during August's Olympic Games, police near the Olympic beach volleyball venue in Copacabana said Wednesday that a foot and other body ...

At least 64 people died on Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro's most deadly police operation ever, which targeted a major gang days ...