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  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by 8mm
    +38 +1

    Rio Paralympics 2016: Russian athletes banned after doping scandal

    Russian athletes have been banned from competing at the Rio 2016 Paralympics following the country's doping scandal. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) had opened suspension proceedings following the McLaren report, and has now confirmed the ban. That report, published last month, detailed a state-sponsored doping programme operated by Russia. The Russian Paralympic Committee is to appeal against the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by geoleo
    +50 +1

    The Washington Post will use robots to write stories about the Rio Olympics

    The Washington Post has a big team of journalists covering the Rio Olympics. Also covering the games for the paper: Robots. The Post is using homegrown software to automatically produce hundreds of real-time news reports about the Olympics. Starting tomorrow morning, those items will appear, without human intervention, on the Post’s website, as well as in outside channels like its Twitter account.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by doodlegirl
    +19 +1

    Michael Phelps Tied A 2,168-Year-Old Olympic Record

    Another two golds last night for Michael Phelps, the most decorated American Olympian ever: That makes 21 gold medals in his career, 25 medals overall, and with his win in the 200m butterfly—a particularly personal win, given his loss in that event four years ago—Phelps now has 12 individual wins to bring him into a tie with the late, great Leonidas of Rhodes.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by rhingo
    +36 +1

    A 2nd Olympic pool has turned green

    There's something in the water at the Rio Olympics: Yet another pool has turned deep, bright green. This time, it's the water polo pool. On Tuesday, when the diving pool at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre mysteriously changed colors, Olympic organizers and FINA -- swimming's international governing body -- offered competing explanations why. The water of the diving pool at right appears a murky green as the water polo pool at left appears a greener colour than the previous day.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by cone
    +1 +1

    Rio chefs are using leftover Olympic food to feed the poor

    Leftover food from the Olympic Village in Rio is being cooked by a group of international chefs and then served to the city’s poor. Massimo Bottura, who runs the three-Michelin-star restaurant Osteria Francescana, and Brazil’s David Hertz hope to produce 5,000 meals per day from food leftover by the 11,000 athletes staying in the Olympic Village. The pair were inspired by a similar initiative, Refetterio Ambrosiano, that was launched in Italy last year. It brought 65 chefs from around the world together to cook meals using ingredients donated by the Milan World Expo.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by ckshenn
    +20 +1

    Why the IOC views Puerto Rico as its own country

    This Saturday, the U.S. women’s volleyball team will play the Puerto Rico women’s volleyball team in the opening round of the 2016 Olympics in Rio. You might wonder why two groups of U.S. citizens would compete against one another. After all, the Olympic Games are an international competition that, through medal counts, measures how athletes from different countries perform.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by takai
    +2 +1

    Remote-control trucks are the real heroes of 2016 Rio Olympics' field events

    They started in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, and became the hit of the 2012 Olympics. They’re not athletes, they’re not broadcasters, they’re not mascots. They are the remote-control go-fers of all the track-and-field events that involve throwing things for long distances. And they’re back for the Rio Games. They started in China as large, rocket-shaped buggies used to carry javelins back-and-forth. In London, they were mini-Mini Coopers, taking all manner of field-event items—hammers, discuses, shots—to and fro.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by grandtheftsoul
    +29 +1

    Farewell: Michael Phelps retires after 23rd gold and he's not coming back

    This time it's for real. Late Saturday night at the Rio Olympics, Michael Phelps dove into the pool with Team USA in second place in the 4x100 medley relay. Fifty seconds later, Phelps had pulled his team into the lead - of course - and given freestyler Nathan Adrian plenty of room for a victory. It was Phelps' fifth gold medal of these Games and 23rd overall (to go along with three career silvers and two bronzes) and it'll be his final one. "I am done, boys," he said with a smile in a group huddle after.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by takai
    +29 +1

    Ryan Lochte robbed at gunpoint in Rio

    Ryan Lochte and three other U.S. swimmers were held up at gunpoint early Sunday morning. Lochte described the incident to NBC on Sunday afternoon. "We got pulled over, in the taxi, and these guys came out with a badge, a police badge, no lights, no nothing just a police badge and they pulled us over," Lochte said. "They pulled out their guns, they told the other swimmers to get down on the ground — they got down on the ground. I refused, I was like we didn't do anything wrong, so — I'm not getting down on the ground.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by funhonestdude
    +26 +1

    Patrick Hickey: Head of Irish Olympic committee 'arrested in Rio'

    The head of the Irish and European Olympic committees, Patrick Hickey, is arrested in Rio over illegal ticket sales, Brazil media report.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by ppp
    +20 +1

    Paralympic Games 2016: Rio organisers say only 12% of tickets sold

    Rio 2016 organisers say just 12% of available tickets for next month's Paralympic Games have been sold so far. However, they remain confident the Games, which start on 7 September, will go ahead as planned. Rio 2016 spokesman Mario Andrada said he hoped a new advertising push would help with ticket sales. Rio chiefs also remain in talks with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) over unpaid travel grants to national Paralympic bodies.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by TNY
    +25 +1

    Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz, U.S. swimmers, blocked from boarding flight home from Rio

    Brazilian police have kept two more U.S. swimmers from leaving the country after the Rio de Janeiro Olympics over the investigation of a robbery complaint by teammate Ryan Lochte.

  • Expression
    7 years ago
    by jcscher
    +11 +1

    Rio 2016: 13 Lesser-Spotted Oddities of the Olympics

    Gold medals and drama are all very well, but what about the strange little details that marked out the Rio Olympics?

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by TNY
    +25 +1

    Rio ticket sales: Three OCI officials have passports seized by police

    Three Olympic Council of Ireland officials, including one from Northern Ireland, have had their passports, phones and laptops seized by Brazilian police. It is part of the investigation into alleged illegal ticket sales. RTÉ and the Irish Times say the officials include OCI chief executive Stephen Martin from Bangor. The OCI has appointed a crisis management committee to lead its response to Brazil.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by wildcard
    +30 +1

    Rio police charge Ryan Lochte with false report of robbery

    Brazilian police charged American swimmer Ryan Lochte on Thursday with filing a false robbery report over an incident during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by Petrox
    +22 +1

    Mugabe orders arrest of Zimbabwean Olympic Team after Rio Olympics

    President Robert Mugabe has reportedly ordered the arrest of the entire Zimbabwean Olympic team for failing to win a medal at the just concluded 2016 Rio Olympics. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter President Mugabe According to the NTA, Mugabe met with the commissioner general of Zimbabwe police republic, Augustine Chihuri and asked him to arrest and detain the whole Zimbabwean Olympic Team members immediately they arrive the Harare International Airport.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by rexall
    +10 +1

    Girl, 7, Finds Olympic Gold Medal in Trash

    An Olympic champion is thanking a 7-year-old Atlanta girl who found his gold medal in a pile of trash weeks after it got stolen, the AP reports. Joe Jacobi won the medal in men's canoe double slalom at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Jacobi says it was stolen when somebody broke into his car in June. Weeks later, Chloe Smith was walking with her father when she spotted the gold medal discarded in a pile of garbage.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by Chubros
    +3 +1

    Rio Paralympics 2016: Visually-impaired runner breaks world record, outruns Olympic gold medallist

    Incredulous was the word as Algeria’s Abdellatif Baka won the men's 1500m T13 sprint event in a world record-breaking time of three minutes and 48.29 seconds at the Rio Paralympics on Sunday. What made the spectacle special was that the top four athletes clocked times that would have won them the gold at the Rio Olympics 2016, had they participated in the 1500m run there.

  • Image
    7 years ago
    by AdelleChattre
    +23 +1

    The Rio You Didn’t Know Existed

    Vincent Catala Represents the City Beyond Clichés. Breaking News: Rio de Janeiro is not all sun, parties and samba.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by baron778
    +3 +1

    Brazil shifts right, evangelical elected Rio mayor

    An evangelical mega-church bishop who once branded Catholics demons was elected mayor of Rio de Janeiro, in nationwide municipal elections confirming Brazil's shift to the right. This was the second round of balloting for city halls in Latin America's biggest country and confirmed the trend seen in October 2 polls which ended in humiliation for the former governing Workers' Party. In the first round, the Workers' Party lost about two thirds of the mayor's posts it had won in 2012 elections, including Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo.