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 ...

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 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 ...

“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 ...

Michael Phelps once opened up about his redemption in the 200m butterfly event at the 2016 Olympics. He competed in his final ...

Summer is over for Brazil’s ‘marvelous city’. In a series of eerie and depressing new photos released last week, the 2016 ...

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.

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 ...