Among Asian nations competing in the Games, China and Japan have been traditionally the strong contenders in gymnastics and swimming.After two weeks of intense competitions among the world's finest athletes, the Rio Games has ended.New records were set and...
UNITED KINGDOM - Psychopaths and elite sportspeople share certain characteristics including pushing life to the limit, Britain's most decorated female Olympic athlete Katherine Grainger told AFP.The 40-year-old Scotswoman - who defied the sceptics to take silver in the women's...
PETALING JAYA - Age is just a number for Olympic bronze medallist track cyclist Azizulhasni Awang.With Britain's Chris Hoy riding to the keirin gold at age 36 in London four years ago, it is a good reminder for the...
After two weeks of intense competitions among the world's finest athletes, the Rio Games have ended.
Rio Olympics 2016 Closing Ceremony
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JAKARTA - Indonesian Olympic gold medal winners Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir were given a hero's welcome Tuesday by hundreds of flag-waving fans as the badminton champions returned home.They arrived at Jakarta airport to enthusiastic scenes from the waiting...
LONDON - Great Britain's triumphant Olympic team returned home on Tuesday when a gold-nosed aircraft brought home a host of athletes clutching gold, silver and bronze from the Rio Games.Great Britain's most successful Olympic Games in more than a...
ZURICH - Russia has lost its appeal against its ban from next month's Rio Paralympics because of a state-sponsored doping programme, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), sports highest tribunal, said on Tuesday.The decision to exclude Russia's entire...
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - Turkmenistan's president Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov gave his sports chief a public dressing-down on Tuesday after the Central Asian country's athletes once more came home empty-handed from the Olympics."It's disappointing that even with all the facilities provided, you...
2016 Olympics will forever hail Phelps and Bolt, and Singapore’s swimming sensation.He, the swimmer, first became wet at the Games in 2000 in Sydney, at the time only a student of the sport at 15 years old, the youngest...
The curtains came down on the Rio Olympic Games yesterday morning (Singapore time).
Rio Olympics 2016 Closing Ceremony
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