Seven heavyweight candidates are vying to become the most powerful person in sport, a post 71-year-old Bach has held for 12 years.
From a colourful, sometimes controversial and sodden opening ceremony to boxers caught up in a gender row to refugees on the podium, they served up many memorable moments.
"Following an incident while training today, Remco Evenepoel was taken to hospital where it was revealed that he has sustained fractures to his rib, right shoulder blade and his right hand," the team said in a statement.
To be sure, economic development and demographics alone are not enough to guarantee Olympic success.
The Olympic flag arrived under bright skies Monday in Los Angeles, where officials now have four short years to organize a Games capable of rivalling the widely praised Paris edition in a notoriously traffic-clogged metropolis.
The closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics this upcoming Sunday is set to feature performances by artistes such as Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, according to a media report.
Rabiul finished 43rd out of 49 participants with a score of 624.2. The top eight scorers from the qualification round moved on to the next phase of the competition.
Sheng, who won an individual silver medal at the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics three years ago at the age of 16, and Huang, 17, kept their cool to edge past South Korea's Keum Ji-hyeon and Park Ha-jun 16-12.
French security forces began locking down large parts of central Paris on Thursday ahead of the hugely complex Olympics opening ceremony next week on the river Seine.
Disgraced Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius's sentencing will take place in June for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, after his original conviction was upgraded from the lesser charge of manslaughter.
One little dog who encounters a robodog that's a lot bigger. The robot canine is Spot. It was created by Boston Dynamics, a company owned by Google, reports CNET.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff vows to "win the war" against the Zika virus, but some experts criticized her government's response and warned the Olympics could fuel the disease's spread.
South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been granted bail while he awaits sentence for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
Farah makes it three successive world 5,000m titles and has now won golds in both track distance events at the Olympics and two World Championships.
Controversial former Indian Premier League boss Lalit Modi has admitted to being involved in a plan to overhaul world cricket.
Beijing is going to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, beating the bid of Kazakhstan's Almaty.
Andy Murray makes a winning start to his grass-court season with a straight-sets win over qualifier Yen-Hsun Lu at Queen's Club.
