The 54-year-old also became the oldest medallist at the Rio 2016 Olympics as he and partner Cecilia Carranza Saroli won the Nacra 17 mixed category.more
Two Olympic runners have been praised for embodying "the Olympic spirit" after they stopped mid-race to help each other after falling in the women's 5,000m qualifying heat at the Rio Games.more
SEVEN people have been injured after an overhead television camera plummeted 65ft onto unsuspecting spectators at Olympic Park yesterday. The disaster occurred when cables suspending the massive camera snapped, sending it spiralling down into screaming crowds.more
Britain's Andy Murray defended his Olympic men's singles title with a mammoth four-set win over Juan Martin del Potro. Murray needed just over four hours to win 7-5 4-6 6-2 7-5 and secure Team GB's fifth gold medal of the day and 15th of a brilliant Olympic Games in Rio.more
With 27 medals overall, it's safe to say Phelps is the pure definition of an Olympian. When he took to the pool for the men's 100m butterfly, he won silver - along with two other swimmers. The event ended with Joseph Schooling taking gold and Phelps, Chad Le Clos, and Laszlo Cseh all tying for silver. more
London Olympic champion Andy Murray reached the semi-finals of the men's tennis on Friday after winning a third-set tie-break to scrape through a testing encounter against American Steve Johnson.more
The official result of a doping test has confirmed that 2012 London Gold Medalist Adrian Zieliński used the banned substance nandrolone and has been removed from the Olympic competition in Rio. The sportsman has been a favorite in weightlifting in the 94 + kg weight category.more
Poland maintained its undefeated record in three outings in Pool B by defeating Argentina 3-0 (25-21, 25-19, 37-35) in a men's volleyball match at Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Thursday afternoon.more
Gold medal by Poland's Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozlowska and Natalia Madaj, who won by 0.95 seconds, with Lithuania in third in in the double sculls Rio.more
During the opening ceremony, the Rio Olympics organizers talked about a green environment. They were not talking about the pools at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre. But on Tuesday the water in the pool where the divers for the women's synchronized 10-meter platform competed officially called a diving well was dark green.more
An unpredictable Olympic tennis tournament claimed its biggest scalp of all as Serena Williams crashed out in the third round of the women's singles.more
Grainger and Thornley impressed in their semi-final in Rio, finishing just under two seconds behind Poland's Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozlowska and Natalia Madaj.more