Golf, sevens rugby and kitesurfing take center stage at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. The 2016 Games will hold 28 sports and 38 disciplines in total; golf and sevens rugby were voted into the ...

10 p.m.: Rio 2016 chief Carlos Arthur Nuzman continues the Olympic spin by saying the rain is coming to celebrate. It looks like it’s actually just making everyone cold. 9:55 p.m.: Tokyo offers ...

VR might be worth a shot — if you own a Samsung phone It’s 2016, so of course the Olympics is offering up some virtual reality viewing. NBC and the IOC are pushing out more than 100 hours of ...

“in most cases the Olympics are a money-losing proposition for host cities,” the economists Robert Baade and Victor Matheson conclude in a 2016 paper. In recent years, many Olympic host cities ...

The 2016 Rio Olympics officially kick off on Friday evening with the opening ceremony in Maracana Stadium in the seaside city in Brazil. It marks the first time a South American city will host the ...

Unfinished venues. Crime. Understandably, every few days now, a call comes for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games to be postponed, cancelled or moved. I say understandably because you know things are bad ...

The venues that once dazzled audiences during the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro have now fallen into disrepair. Just six months after the summer games, CNN reports that the Maracanã ...

The cities in contention to host the 2016 Olympics span four continents, four different languages and offer many reasons why each believes it would be the best candidate to host the Summer Games.

NEW VERSION HERE The complete Rio Olympic competition schedule was released Tuesday, allowing Games fans to start setting up their viewing schedules for August 2016. Here’s a daily look at potentially ...

It’s an Olympic tradition to crown the medalists of the men’s marathon at the Games’ closing ceremonies. Gold winner Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya got a warm reception from the crowd in Rio on ...