Vietnamese rejoiced Sunday after their country won its first ever Olympic gold medal, a victory made all the more sweet by the

Risk is part of the Olympic contest for Greg Van Avermaet who won a crash-filled Rio Games cycling road race.

Australia's women lowered the 4x100m freestyle world record to capture their country's second gold on the opening night

It was the hardest day I've ever had in my life on a bike. It was a brutal, brutal, strange old race, Ireland cyclist Dan Martin says.

Hungary's Katinka Hosszu fills a glaring gap in her resume, making her first Olympic medal a gold -- with a world record to boot.

Rio Olympics organizers on Sunday threw their weight behind a police crackdown on Brazilians holding up signs in stadiums against unpopular interim president Michel Temer, despite accusations of censorship.

A bullet that penetrated the roof of the media center at the Rio Olympics equestrian venue may have been a stray fired by a gunman aiming at police aircraft, Brazil's defense minister said Sunday.

Five-time defending champion United States stretched its Olympic women's basketball win streak to 42 games Sunday with a 121-56 rout of Senegal.

Zhang Mengxue gets China off the gold medal mark at the Rio Games today, the Olympic debutant winning the women's 10m air pistol title.

Four-time gold medallist Venus Williams, suffering with a virus, slumps to her first ever opening round loss at an Olympic Games

Olympic action begins in earnest with swimming records falling, bomb and bullet scares, and a sickening double leg break in gymnastics.

Police shot a mugger near the stadium where the Rio Olympics opening ceremony took place and a woman was killed close to

American teenager Virginia Thrasher claimed the first Rio Olympics gold medal in the shooting on Saturday.

Our admiration for you is even greater because you managed this at a very difficult time in Brazilian history. We have always

The honour was for Brazil's former long

US teenager Virginia Thrasher claims the first Rio Olympics gold medal with her final shot in the shooting on Saturday.

Mercilessly cast as "greedy" and "missing" for failing to fire Brazil to victory in their Rio 2016 opener against South Africa, Neymar and his highly-touted teammates need a big response against Iraq on Sunday.

The Maracana stadium erupts in jeers as Brazil's unpopular interim president Michel Temer opens the Rio Olympics and the hostility spreads far beyond the sports venue.

A joyful sashay through Brazil's extraordinary musical heritage is infused with a social message and a warning over the dangers of climate change as Rio de Janeiro draws back the curtain of the 2016 Olympic Games with a highly charged opening ceremony.

The Rio Games launched with a flamboyant spectacle headlined by supermodel Gisele Bundchen as a doom-laden Olympic build-up gave way to an energetic party atmosphere at the fabled Maracana stadium on Friday.