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 ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (CNN)-- The battle to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games appears to be heating up between Chicago, Illinois, and Rio de Janeiro ... which city will win the games.

Officials in Rio de Janeiro hoped hosting the 2016 Olympics would help make it a first-class city. Instead, many buildings and stadiums made for the games have gone unused since the event ended.

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 ...

The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro drew 500,000 foreign visitors and sold $7.5 million tickets to people who watched 10,500 athletes compete. There were 85,000 security personnel on hand, and ...

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 ...

Aim To describe the demographics, frequency and anatomical location of stress injuries (ie, stress reaction and stress fractures) in athletes at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Methods ...

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.