It is time to light the Olympic Torch in a tropical country,” Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as it gathered in Copenhagen to select a site ...

Athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympics will be taking home bits of recycled mirrors, car parts, and X-ray plates in their medals as part of design aimed at sustainability. Athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympics ...

There's a new sport in Rio, and it's not one of the newly announced additions to the next Summer Olympics — it's McConaughey-spotting. Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage ...

Katie Ledecky, Andy Murray and Lisa Carrington are a few of the athletes vying for a third straight gold medal at the Tokyo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fire authorities contained a blaze at the velodrome in Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Park on Wednesday, April 8. The Rio De Janeiro ...

RIO DE JANIERO -- It's the phrase that's uttered at the start of every Olympics and consists of just four little words -- "Let the Games begin." But Friday night, even more than usual, they felt like ...

Since the modern Olympics began in 1896, over 200 national teams have vied for glory at the Summer and Winter Games. Now, for the first time, a team of refugees will compete as well. The International ...