With its stunning peaks, beaches and city skyline, Rio de Janiero should provide the perfect setting for Olympic sailing. But with just days left until the Games start, studies have found the waters ...

Police protests, the threat of the Zika virus, incomplete transport links and a "state of financial emergency" — the build-up to South America's inaugural Olympic Games on August 5 has been rocky. The ...

Eduardo Paes, the mayor of Rio, reclines in his chair in a vast conference room on the 13th floor of City Hall, and exhales. The cascade of negative news that has recently hit the Olympic city—rising ...

After months of planning, hundreds of headlines and years of training for the world’s top athletes, the Rio 2016 Olympic Games are finally here. Friday’s opening ceremony was a flamboyant feast of ...

Aly Raisman, captain of the U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics team, explains why the balance beam is the scariest event and demonstrates some of the trickiest skills in her routine. Photo: Getty Rio de ...

Breaking tradition, the Rio Olympics this summer will feature 13 artist-designed posters instead of one. “It’s really hard for us in Brazil to choose one artist to represent the Olympic Games, or ...

"There is not going to be a torch," shouted demonstrators this week in the Brazilian town of Niteroi, the crowd growing increasingly agitated as riot police starting moving in. Some protestors carried ...

Aly Raisman took Olympic gold in 2012 with a mind-boggling opening tumbling pass. The reigning champion breaks down that same pass, which she hopes will help her medal again in Rio. Image: Robert ...

The single word to describe the sports infrastructure created for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is abandonment. Uncertainty over the future of the dilapidated sports stadiums and arenas threatens 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 ...

From inches, to miles, to seconds, to goals, the Olympics have always been a numbers game, and Rio is no different. In that spirit, join us as we countdown 16 calculator-busting data points that tell ...

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 ...