A day after a near-disaster with a dropped baton, defending champions the United States made no mistake on Friday when they

Great Britain won their first Olympic Games women's hockey gold medal on Friday with a dramatic shoot-out triumph over two-

Immortality: Sealed with a burst of speed, in the blink of an eye and in the matter of 37.27 seconds.

South Korea's Park In-Bee won the first women's Olympic golf title in 116 years on Saturday, using her effortless swing to take a five-

A split has developed between Australia's two peak sports bodies in the wake of the nation's underwhelming results at the Rio Olympics.

Chloe Esposito wins the women's modern pentathlon gold at the Rio Olympics, giving Australia its first medal in the five-discipline event.

The runners who have lost to Usain Bolt for the past dozen years shower the Jamaican superstar with praise, after he completes his historic "triple-triple" in what he has said will be his final Olympics.

Greece's Ekaterini Stefanidi wins the Olympic pole vault and her country's first athletics gold since the 2004 Athens Games.

Allyson Felix becomes the first woman athlete with five gold medals as she powers the US sprint relay team to victory.

Usain Bolt put the seal on a glittering Olympic career with a blistering 4x100m relay victory that clinched sprint's first ever 'triple triple'. With his unprecedented third straight 100m, 200m and 4x100m clean sweep, Bolt joins Carl Lewis and Paavo Nurmi on a record-equalling nine track and field Olympic gold medals.

European Olympics chief Pat Hickey, who is accused of involvement in a black market tickets ring, has been jailed in Rio de

P V Sindhu's gallant attempt to win a coveted gold medal for India ends in heart-break when she goes down fighting against Spain's Carolina Marin.

Alison "The Mammoth" Cerutti and Bruno Schmidt spark wild scenes at a rain-soaked Copacabana stadium as they power to men's beach volleyball gold.

US gold medallist swimmer Ryan Lochte apologises for his behaviour at the Olympics.

Dalilah Muhammad powers to a brilliant victory in the women's 400m hurdles to become the first winner of the event from the United States in Olympic history.

Even though Rogeiro Micale, the coach of Brazil's Olympic football team played down talks of revenge, revenge is expected to

Argentina beat Belgium 4-2 to claim the Olympic title on Thursday and win their country's first Games medal in men's hockey,

You should always want to be the best. I respect him [Andre De Grasse] for that but I tell every youngster, I don't allow young

With the Rio 2016 Olympic Games expected to be the last Games for Usain Bolt, the Jamaican sprint king spoke elaborately

Barred from competing at the Rio Games, Russia's double Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva announced her retirement on Friday and