Paris 2024 has named Société du Grand Paris (SGP) as an official supplier of the city's Olympic and Paralympic bid - in a deal which organisers hope will boost the French capital's transport credentials.more
Ewa Durska (Student Sports Club Barnim Goleniów) won the gold medal in the Paralympic Games shot put in the category F20. With the result of 13.94 she set a world record. This is the fourth medal of the Polish team in Rio de Janeiro.more
Blind Wojciech Makowski (IKS AWF Warszawa), after winning in swimming 100 meters backstroke silver medal at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, confessed: "I feel something I have never felt in my life".more
Bartosz Tyszkowski (Gorzow Sports Association for the Disabled Start) won the Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games silver medal in the shot put in the category F41.more
Cuban discus thrower Yarelys Barrios is the latest 2008 Olympian to be stripped of a medal as the detailed results of recent retests of doping samples from eight years ago continue to pour in.more
The International Olympic Committee has disqualified six sportspeople for failing doping tests at the Beijing 2008 Games, the organisation has said.more
According to reports from News Houses in Zimbabwe, Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, has instructed the Commissioner General of Zimbabwe Police Republic, Augustine Chihuri, to arrest and detain the whole Zimbabwean Olympic Team members over dismal performance.more
It's not all bad being a Russian athlete amid an Olympic doping crisis. Russia will award each of its medallists at this year's Olympics Games in Rio a BMW sports utility vehicle and at least 1.7 million roubles (NZ$36,000), state news agency TASS reported on Thursday.more
Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike brought the Olympic flag to Japan from Brazil on Wednesday and called for all parties to work together to host a successful Summer Games in 2020.more
Russia will not compete at the Paralympics in September after it failed in an appeal against its exclusion from the Games, the court of arbitration for sport has announced.more
Beautiful hills, the Atlantic, Guanabara Bay, Copacabana, and above all, Jesus Christ. Such images will be in the memory of the fans after the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The participants will remember the chaos, eternal delays and variable weather. Poles are returning with 11 medals.more
Caribbean island of Grenada should be in number one position. With one medal (Kirani James won silver in the Men's 400 meter sprint) and a population of merely 106,825, Grenada is races ahead of the rest of the world when considering medals per capita alone.more
Wojciech Nowicki (KS Podlasie Bialystok), who with the result of 77.73 won the Rio de Janeiro Olympic bronze medal in the hammer throw competition admitted that he is deeply disappointed with his attitude.more
In March she walked on crutches, and doubted whether she would go to Rio de Janeiro for the Games. Octavia Nowacka yesterday won bronze Olympic medal and is the happiest person in the world.more
Usain Bolt won a third successive Olympic 200m gold on Thursday (Friday, Manila time) to keep alive his hopes of an unprecedented "triple triple" in Rio.more
Welcome to the Rio Boolympics, where athletes get booed if they're Russian, booed if they're running against Usain Bolt and, most of all, booed if they're not Brazilian.more