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Rio mayor hits out at Olympic organisers
Rio de Janeiro's Mayor Eduardo Paes lashed out on Friday at the city's Olympics organising committee.
Rio de Janeiro's Mayor Eduardo Paes lashed out on Friday at the city's Olympics organising committee.
As part of our build-up to Rio 2016, we're counting down New Zealand's top Olympic towns. Today, number two.
To push through hours of mind-numbing swim training Cameron Leslie repeats his two-word mantra.
In the fifth and final part of the Herald series Making of a Olympian, the spotlight falls on Paralympian Cameron Leslie. He's preparing
A knee injury will see Valerie Adams' coach Jean-Pierre Egger miss the Olympic Games.
On the back of English golfer Liz Young competing at the British Open while seven months pregnant, we take a look at some female Olympians
Watch NZ Herald Focus: We discuss safety tips for travel to Rio and athletes at the Olympics must adhere to strict social media guidelines.
Despite the prestige and grandeur that hosting an Olympics brings to a city for the few weeks of coverage, there are few if any economic benefits to hosting the event
New Zealand's bid to send a coxless four to Rio ended with FISA confirming Russia will cobble together a crew.
The bad news...New Zealand fans will have to wait longer than usual to see Kiwi athletes walk out into the Rio stadium at next month's
They both won gold medals in their respective fields at London 2012 and are considered to be one of the greatest of all-time in their
How does that old mantra go? If your country's entire track-and-field team gets banned from the Olympics, create your own alternate competition instead?
A handful of Herald reporters spent a day training, eating and sleeping like an Olympian in a chosen sport.
Eleven crews - including the 10th placed Russians - qualified at last year's world championships.
The Australian women's eight will race at Rio with a borrowed boat and oars after Russian boats were withdrawn.
The men's coxless four rowers are the latest New Zealand athletes to be punished by the IOC's abdication of responsibility over Russia's systemic doping.
Bubba Watson is more excited about the chance to be an Olympian than he is about the opportunity to win gold.
A reporter has revealed how she and her cameraman were approached by thieves just an hour after arriving in Rio.
There's another doping scandal brewing at the Rio Olympics and this time it has nothing to do with Russia.
Rowing New Zealand's clinging to a glimmer of hope its mens four may yet head to Rio.
Usain Bolt has defied human logic on the track and it appears he can do so too off it.
Jack Lovelock left a remarkable legacy for New Zealand athletics.
For a double Olympic medallist and world champion, Marc Ryan is a humble chap.
A handful of our reporters spent a day training, eating and sleeping like an Olympian. Today, Kurt Bayer shares his experience of middle-distance running.
If things had gone to plan for Carlin Isles, the Olympics might have witnessed a duel between Bolt and rugby's fastest man.
What a craven organisation the IOC is, and what a toadying bunch of sycophants its national branches, including the NZOC, are.
There's a possibility Russia could lose its mens rowing four from the Olympics, handing a potential reprieve to the New Zealand crew currently training at Lake Karapiro.
Despite a delay of several days, the Australian team are set to move into the athletes' village at the Rio Olympics.
Kiwi distance runner Zane Robertson believes drugs will still plague the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Watch NZ Herald Focus: A record number of condoms will be given to athletes as they arrive at their quarters in the Olympic village in Rio.