Rio 2016 Olympic organisers have labelled ... criticisms from international federations had served as a wake-up call for the three different levels of government in Brazil but that Coates’s remarks ...

Since the modern Olympics began in 1896, over 200 national teams have vied for glory at the Summer and Winter Games. In 2016, for the first time, a team of refugees competed as well. At the 2016 ...

Roger Federer is another top player who reportedly will skip the athletes' village in Rio, although his staff was yet to confirm his official plans. Federer had problems at the Olympic Village in ...

IOC President Jacques Rogge said in the news conference afterward that in addition to its excellent bid, Rio had the "extra ... construction of Olympic venues. The city's bid was helped by a ...

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 ...

Now he’s somewhere in England.” Nfaou came close to being deported a couple of years ago after getting into trouble with the authorities, but without a passport or family in Morocco, he had ...

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“We all know that before this kind of big event, there are always many questions, many concerns ... been more ready to celebrate the Olympics, le Bras suggests. “We had a sense then ...

Every four years, a chosen host city spends ... would be too large and expensive to maintain. Just six months after the Games ended, the Olympic Village (pictured here in 2017) had become a ...

Glover and Stanning celebrate winning gold in the women's rowing pair final during the 2016 Olympics in Rio "We've had a lot of time ... interesting to see how other nations come out and what ...

Over the coming year, there are several seismic issues that ... most casual of Olympic observers considering quite how often similar accusations have been bandied around other Olympic Games ...

Host countries spend years preparing for the Games, and build entire cities around ... The one they had at the Rio Olympics had the stars all straight and parallel to each other.