Rio de Janeiro is the choice of the IOC to host the 2016 Olympics. Rio de Janeiro won on the third round of voting at the IOC Session in Copenhagen, after Chicago was eliminated in the first round ...

The city of Rio de Janeiro will soon be home to the Olympic Games in August 2016. But there is a darker side to the glitz and glamour of this year’s host nation. Of the 56,000 homicides in Brazil ...

Usain Bolt made history by becoming the first person to win three successive ... men's 100 metres final in Rio, beating rival sprinter Justin Gatlin and Canada's Andre De Grasse.

China’s Ding Ning wins table tennis gold in women’s singles, beating Li Xiaoxia of China, 11-9, 5-11, 14-12, 9-11, 8-11, 11-7 ...

Yesterday we posted a story on the furore surrounding the logo for the Rio 2016 Olympics, which was unveiled on New Year ... Avoid clichés and present Rio de Janeiro as the site of the largest ...

The 2016 Olympic Games run from Aug. 5 through Aug. 21 in Rio de Janeiro. Throughout, we will be chronicling the latest news and more from our reporters in Rio and Washington.

After Velasco, 62 other athletes have tried and failed to win a medal and when the 31st Olympics in Rio de Janeiro opens on August ... in four sets during the 2016 ITTF-Asian Olympic Qualification ...