RIO DE JANEIRO, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Vitinho and Jefferson Savarino scored in each half as reigning champion Botafogo eased to a 2-0 home win over Rio de Janeiro rival Fluminense in Brazil's Serie A ...

Maracanã Stadium, which held the opening and closing ceremonies and several of the Rio Olympics' biggest events, is abandoned and plagued by looters, and Julio de Lamare Aquatic Park's warm-up ...

As an Olympic gold medalist and Champions League winner, Almuth Schult was one of the top goalkeepers in women’s soccer.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (CNN)-- The battle to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games appears to be heating up between Chicago, Illinois, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, two sources close to the process said ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The 2016 summer Olympic games begin in exactly 500 days and host city Rio de Janeiro is still in the thick of major preparations. While most of the venues look far ...

Rio de Janeiro state says it is taking over ... refurbishment ahead of the 2014 Fifa World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. The stadium has sat empty for months at a time after the Olympics.

(ATR) International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge says the construction now underway for the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro appear ... a new stadium for athletics events ...

(Peter Cziborra / Reuters) RIO DE JANEIRO — When she made history by winning gold in the 2012 Olympic debut of women’s boxing, Claressa Shields, a 17-year-old high school junior from Flint ...