RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — At the flame-lighting in the ruins of Ancient Olympia, Brazil's sport minister Ricardo Leyser tried to assure the world about the troubled Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Hours later on ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - "Pure Island: a neighbourhood born ready-made," reads the glitzy brochure for the 31 tower blocks built for $880 million (£668.6 million) to house athletes for the Olympics ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- The main ramp of Marina da Gloria, the sailing venue of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, partially collapsed on Saturday. No one was injured, organizers said, but the incident raises ...

How you feel about the water in Rio depends almost entirely on what boat you’re in. If you’re an Olympic sailor in a 49er, a speedy, two-person monohull, it’s not so bad. Or at least, not as bad as ...

NANTERRE, France — Katie Ledecky doesn’t care about every single record she breaks. After all, there are so many it’d be impossible to even track them all. But there was one streak she started back on ...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Some venues for the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic are decaying as Brazil has so far fallen short of its own legacy plans for sports facilities, the International ...