Olympics officials promise to push for life bans for dope cheats, echoing calls from Michael Phelps and Michael Johnson as a bitter drugs row engulfed the Rio Games.

In the chaotic world of Rio criminality, it is an old trick that is winning the gold medal.

Oscar Figueroa, a 33-year-old Colombian who practises meditation and was recently sentenced to 16 months in prison, broke down in tears and retired after winning Olympic gold in the men's 62kg weightlifting on Monday.

Katinka Hosszu of Hungary made her second top of the podium finish at the Rio Olympics on Monday as she won the women's Olympic 100 metres backstroke.

Australia became the first Olympic champions in women's rugby sevens when they ran out convincing 24-17 winners over trans-Tasman neighbours New Zealand in the gold medal final at the Deodoro Stadium in Rio on Monday.

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Bangladesh's ace golfer Siddikur Rahman said he was thrilled to be at the Olympics and surprised to see the response he has been getting from people.

Brazil has been going through a difficult time of late. A bitter political crisis and continued recession has left deep scars on the psyche of its people.

Dutch gymnast Yuri van Gelder has been expelled from the Olympics for "gravely" violating team rules by going out for a night of drinking in Rio after qualifying for the finals of the rings event.

American teenager Lilly King celebrates stopping tainted Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova from getting an Olympic gold as doping hostilities worsen in Rio.

Shimmying amid a troupe of semi-naked samba dancers and wise-cracking with journalists, Usain Bolt is determined to bow out of the Olympics with a flourish.

A female athlete from the favelas wins Brazil's first gold medal of the Rio Games as Michael Phelps steps up his campaign for yet more Olympic honours.

China's Wu Minxia splashed into the Olympic record books on Sunday, passing legends like American Greg Louganis and "big sister" Guo Jingjing as the most decorated diver in history.

The younger guys started crying, I started crying. My last 400 free relay ever, it feels damn good to get a win

The tension was palpable, yet the resolution supreme. Here was a man bent on righting the wrongs of his post-2012 past;

Dutch cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten lay helpless in intensive care after suffering three cracked vertebrae in a stomach-churning crash.

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Majlinda Kelmendi won Kosovo's first ever Olympic gold medal at its maiden Games putting her fledgling country on the

Brazil face another embarrassing exit from a tournament on home soil after Neymar slumber through a second 0-0 draw of Rio 2016 against Iraq.

If you thought the picture with this story was taken from inside a football stadium, you couldn't have been further from the