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'It's very cool," said Yusra Mardini, long after she had won her heat in the 100m butterfly. "It is an incredible feeling to be here."
'It's very cool," said Yusra Mardini, long after she had won her heat in the 100m butterfly. "It is an incredible feeling to be here."
Bullets, a controlled explosion and muggings marred the start of the 2016 Olympic Games and raised serious security concerns in Rio - all before day three.
Russia's 267 paralympic athletes banned as punishment for the country's systematic doping programme.
The New Zealand women's sevens rugby team have progressed to the competition's quarter-finals after beating France and topping their
New Zealand's women's Black Sticks have begun their Olympic campaign in style.
He's been a passenger all year. Now Scott Curry is the fit-again pilot of a giant All Blacks Sevens team chasing Olympic glory in
Aussie gold medallist Mack Horton called China's Sun Yang a 'drug cheat', and it all kicked off from there.
Australia's 400m freestyle gold medallist Mack Horton has copped a barrage of abuse from Chinese swimming fans on social media in
Rio has taken the purchasing of food and a cool, thirst-quenching beer to a whole new and incredibly frustrating level.
Officials are making strenuous efforts to have the red card handed out to captain Abby Erceg today overturned.
Rowing New Zealand have laid an official complaint with organisers after the Olympic racing schedule continued in rough conditions on day one of heats.
Venus Williams is out of the Rio Olympics, losing in the first round to unfancied Belgian Kirsten Flipkens 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5).
Carmelo Anthony says his US men's basketball teammates need to accept responsibility and move on after reports that three players visited a legal brothel in Rio de Janeiro.
New Zealand have their first win at the women's Olympic tournament, but in dramatic circumstances.
The daring Rio thief who stole $40,000 worth of camera gear from a photographer has been caught - by the very man from whom he stole the gear.
Watch Focus on Rio: A bullet has been fired at a press conference room at the equestrian centre at the Rio Olympics, landing inside the building.
The opening day of the Rio Olympics has been a success for New Zealand. Next up are the Football Ferns. Follow along in our live coverage.
Kiwi flagbearers Peter Burling and Blair Tuke also caused a bit of a stir on the interweb, winning admirers the world over.
New Zealand's rowers and women's sevens team have got off to a strong start on day one of the Rio Games. The Kiwi crews went close
Of the three eventing disciplines, dressage is the one which has traditionally proved the hardest for New Zealand riders to master. Cross
It always shaped as a crucial chance for New Zealand to make a statement, and they came up just short against Australia in their opening
Mahe Drysdale cruised while Emma Twigg battled as both New Zealand single scullers made winning starts to the Rio Olympic regatta.
Emma Twigg has protested the conditions the crews were forced to race in on the opening day of rowing at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
COMMENT: You could trace the mountains in the night. In Rio, they stick out like fence palings and in the darkness the landscape looms, the cliffs a shade darker than the sky.
From Bulawayo to Limerick to Vladivostok, almost one in 10 New Zealand athletes attending the Rio Olympic Games were born overseas.
A leading sport agent says Kiwi athletes deserve more say in how their images are used in Olympic sponsorships.
Quietly, as the Rio Games cauldron ignites into flame, New Zealand's most successful Olympic coach will disappear into a mentoring backwater.
The first half of day one of New Zealand's Olympic campaign has been dominated by the success of its rowers in Rio de Janeiro. The
US shooter Virginia Thrasher has won the first gold medal of the Rio Olympics, capturing the women's 10-meter air rifle. The 19-year-old