A senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) official says he takes allegations of illegal payments to help Tokyo secure the 2020 Games "seriously" but said his group will not conduct a probe of their own.

Brazilian investigators expand their probe into possible corruption around the staging of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro this August to include all the venues and services financed with federal funds, a lead prosecutor told Reuters.

As Rio de Janeiro prepares to play Olympic host, one art exhibit is flying a less than celebratory five-ring flag portraying five youngsters shot dead by police in this often deadly city.

Russia's sports ministry says on Wednesday it fully supports actions by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to bar athletes who dope from competitions, but said clean athletes should not be excluded from the Rio games.

Australia's Olympians will be issued with free super-strength condoms in Rio to minimise any infection from the Zika virus, officials say on Monday.

Sprint king Usain Bolt aims to crown his legacy with an unprecedented Olympic threepeat at the Rio Games, and to

Bangladeshi athletes Mahfuza Khatun and Mabia Akter Simanta win gold medals in swimming and weightlifting events at the 2016 South Asian Games in India.

Russia's Olympic Committee (ROC) has banned four athletes for doping, as the country struggles to overturn a suspension on its track

Usain Bolt has made no secret of his desire to one day play for Manchester United, but the sprint king has revealed he has no desire to carry out that ambition while Louis van Gaal remains in charge.

An official Indian delegation is currently in Dhaka for the promotion of 12th South Asian Games, scheduled to be held in Guwahati and Shillong from February 6 to 16, 2016.

Russia on Tuesday pledged to cooperate with anti-doping and international athletics authorities after a damning report into allegations of doping and corruption in athletics in the country.

South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been released under house arrest nearly one year after he was jailed for killing his girlfriend.

Six-times Olympic champion Usain Bolt has already started his preparations for next year's Rio Games and wants to break 19 seconds in the 200 meters.

Japanese social media users have been posting their own creative designs after Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games logo controversy.

Tokyo's 2020 Olympics organisers on Tuesday scrapped the event's scandal-hit logo in the latest mishap for the Games.

Mo Farah became the first man to win back-to-back world distance doubles when he stormed to 5,000 metres victory at Beijing's Bird's

What made this World Athletics Championships different was that Usain Bolt was not expected to win. But then, of course, he did and

Farah makes it three successive world 5,000m titles and has now won golds in both track distance events at the Olympics and two World Championships.

Justin Gatlin could not get close to Usain Bolt in the 200m final in Beijing, but he may have had better luck if he had been on a Segway and

Usain Bolt delivered when it mattered again on Thursday when he scorched the fastest time of the year to win a record fourth straight