The Rio 2016 Paralympic Torch Relay through Brazil will begin on Sep.1. The festivities began as Brazil’s interim president Michel Temer lit the Olympic torch during the reception ceremony of ...

(ATR) Ancient Olympia prepares for its biennial moment in the sun. The Rio 2016 Olympic Torch relay begins Thursday with the traditional lighting of the flame at the site where the Games began ...

As the Greek high priestesses lit the torch at the ancient ... who covered the Olympics in Rio, put it: “It’s a shag-fest.” So as romance breaks out in the Parisian Olympic village 2024 ...

In 2018 the number of persons with disabilities in employment was 49 per cent higher than it was in 2009 when Rio won the right to stage the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games ... The Rio 2016 ...

Florent Manaudou, a French swimming legend who won 2012 Olympic gold in the men’s 50m freestyle, was the first recipient of the flame. He handed it off to French Paralympic sprinter Nantenin Keita, ...

The 2016 Olympic Games run from Aug. 5 through Aug. 21 in Rio de Janeiro. Throughout, we will be chronicling the latest news and more from our reporters in Rio and Washington.

An curved arrow pointing right. A look inside Rio's Olympic Village, and why so many athletes are taking issue with it. Produced by Benjamin Tumin. Original reporting by Emmett Knowlton.

MARSEILLE: The Olympic torch relay began in Marseille on Thursday ... After the Covid-hit edition in Tokyo in 2021 and the corruption-tainted Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016, the Paris Olympics ...

Read the full story here The 2016 Olympic Games run from Aug. 5 through Aug. 21 in Rio de Janeiro. Throughout, we will be chronicling the latest news and more from our reporters in Rio and Washington.

Maracanã Stadium, which held the opening and closing ceremonies and several of the Rio Olympics' biggest events ... Organizer's blame the Olympic Park's troubles on Brazil's recession.

Wrestling will be fighting to prove its relevance in Rio after battling back from the brink of Olympic extinction. One of the key sports at the ancient Olympics, wrestling has been part of every ...