The Notice of Race for the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition has been released. The competition begins on 8 August and runs until 18 August at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Notice of Race states the ...

In two years, the 2016 Paralympics will open in Rio de Janeiro, including some 4,350 athletes from 160 nations in 22 sports. The Rio Paralympics will run from Sept. 7-18, beginning 17 days after the ...

A Brazilian judge has ordered the closure of Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Park from today on safety grounds. The complex includes the abandoned site of the pool in which we witnessed the last stand of ...

The Rio 2016™ Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games has selected U.S.-based Hanse Golf Course Design to design the golf course in Rio de Janeiro for the Olympic Games in 2016, when ...

Let the Games begin! The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil officially begin tonight with the opening ceremony in the country’s famed Maracana stadium. The opening ceremony begins at 7:30 ...

The 16-month project began with designers researching each sport before creating the first strokes by hand. These were then reconstructed on a computer, fitting the contours of the letters. The ...

Athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympics will be taking home bits of recycled mirrors, car parts, and X-ray plates in their medals as part of design aimed at sustainability. Athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympics ...

Since the modern Olympics began in 1896, over 200 national teams have vied for glory at the Summer and Winter Games. In 2016, for the first time, a team of refugees competed as well. At the 2016 ...

The kinetic sculpture behind the Rio 2016 Olympic cauldron is so hypnotic you might not have noticed the flame itself is rather tiny compared to past games. The kinetic sculpture behind the Rio 2016 ...

Rio deserved a more balanced, less hysterical prologue, just as it deserves a more balanced, less triumphal epilogue. By Christopher Clarey It‘s time to hand out our traditional Olympic prizes. By ...