The entire Zimbabwe Olympic team was arrested for lack of medals in Rio. Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe instructed the country's police chief Augustine Chichuri to arrest members of the Zimbabwe Olympic team as soon as they arrived at Harare International Airport on 23 August. The reason was that ...
Ethan Kushernik, a 13-year-old boy from Brooklyn, New York, won the Pan American Epee Championship in Pose, Puerto Rico on August 26, 2016. Ethan is currently ranked first in his age group in fencing in the United States. When the boy was 10 years old, for the first time ...
Brazil and the world bid farewell on Sunday to South America's first Olympic Games, a 16-day spectacle that was punctuated by moments of turmoil and strangeness that sometimes overshadowed the competition. Thousands of spectators gathered at the legendary Maracanã stadium so that, despite...
Over the past 35 years, 40% of the world's top sprinters have come from Kenya. Fusion has figured out how the country manages to bring up the best athletes. Their physical superiority is currently being actively discussed, but in the case of Kenya, nature and culture are key ...
Athlete Delilah Muhammad won the 400th medal for the US team at the Rio Olympics and won the 26m hurdles. This gold became for 53,13-year-old Muhammad the first Olympic award in his career, writes Heavy. Muhammad covered the distance in XNUMX seconds. ...
American women Brianna Rollins, Nia Ali and Christy Castlin took the entire podium in the 100m hurdles at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. This season's leader Brianna Rollins, who lives and trains in Miami, won the gold medal with a time of 12,48 ...
The four American swimmers who reported the robbery in Rio de Janeiro were not in fact victims of the crime, but, on the contrary, themselves damaged the door of a gas station in the city, Brazilian police told the BBC. According to local media reports, the incident occurred early Sunday morning at a gas station ...
Behind the Olympic athletes, in between rounds and to the side, people work. CNN has selected five of the strangest (but necessary) jobs we've seen in the Olympics. 1. Workers who literally keep the cyclist at the start 2. Lifeguards for Olympic divers and ...
Thiago Braz da Silva, a Brazilian pole vaulter and a graduate of a Ukrainian coach, sensationally became an Olympic champion in Rio de Janeiro, beating the world record holder and 2012 Olympic champion Frenchman Renaud Lavilleni. The height of 5.85 was taken by three athletes who competed for medals. Lavilleni took ...
One of the most titled Jamaican sprinters, Usain Bolt, won another gold medal, winning the “royal” 100-meter race at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro with a result of 9,81 seconds. This victory brought him his seventh medal of the highest dignity: earlier he took ...