With crimson lipstick, eye-liner, mascara and a beaming smile, Michelle Carter wins a stunning Olympic shot put gold to sprinkle a little glitz on an event often cruelly ridiculed for the shape of its women athletes.
Chinese swimmer Chen Xinyi fails a doping test at the Rio Olympics, the official Xinhua news agency reports.
The younger guys started crying, I started crying. My last 400 free relay ever, it feels damn good to get a win
Top quotes from the Rio Olympics 2016.
It was the hardest day I've ever had in my life on a bike. It was a brutal, brutal, strange old race, Ireland cyclist Dan Martin says.
A joyful sashay through Brazil's extraordinary musical heritage is infused with a social message and a warning over the dangers of climate change as Rio de Janeiro draws back the curtain of the 2016 Olympic Games with a highly charged opening ceremony.
Andy Murray shrugs off the potential threat of the Zika virus as well as the absence of two of his leading rivals on Tuesday as he prepares to defend his Olympic title.
Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams will display their Grand Slam talents in Rio, but with serious questions being asked over tennis's place in the Olympics after a host of high-profile pull-outs.
"My biggest dream at the Olympics is to win three gold medals again. That's my focus, that's what I want," Bolt says in an interview.
With crimson lipstick, eye-liner, mascara and a beaming smile, Michelle Carter wins a stunning Olympic shot put gold to sprinkle a little glitz on an event often cruelly ridiculed for the shape of its women athletes.
Chinese swimmer Chen Xinyi fails a doping test at the Rio Olympics, the official Xinhua news agency reports.
The younger guys started crying, I started crying. My last 400 free relay ever, it feels damn good to get a win
Top quotes from the Rio Olympics 2016.
It was the hardest day I've ever had in my life on a bike. It was a brutal, brutal, strange old race, Ireland cyclist Dan Martin says.
A joyful sashay through Brazil's extraordinary musical heritage is infused with a social message and a warning over the dangers of climate change as Rio de Janeiro draws back the curtain of the 2016 Olympic Games with a highly charged opening ceremony.
Andy Murray shrugs off the potential threat of the Zika virus as well as the absence of two of his leading rivals on Tuesday as he prepares to defend his Olympic title.
Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams will display their Grand Slam talents in Rio, but with serious questions being asked over tennis's place in the Olympics after a host of high-profile pull-outs.
"My biggest dream at the Olympics is to win three gold medals again. That's my focus, that's what I want," Bolt says in an interview.
Athletics' governing body says it has definitively rejected Moscow's request to review its blanket ban of Russia's track and field team from next month's Rio Olympics over state-sponsored doping.
