Long jumper Daria Klishina, who was the only representative of the Russian national athletics team, admitted to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, was suspended from performing at the 2016 Games. The decision to remove the athlete was made on August 13 based on new information received by the IAAF, writes ...
Legendary American swimmer Michael Phelps became a 23-time Olympic champion, winning the 13 x 4 medley relay on 100 August. This award became his fifth “gold” at the Rio Olympics, writes CNN. The only swim in Brazil where Phelps came second won ...
French Olympic team member Fabien Gilot, who is the grandson of Holocaust survivor Max Goldschmidt, won a silver medal at the Rio Olympics. The athlete earned the award in the relay race 4 x 100 freestyle, writes Algemeiner. After the victory, Gilot showed off a tattoo on his shoulder on ...
On August 11, 20-year-old American Simone Manuel and 16-year-old Canadian Penny Oleksyak shared the victory in the 100m freestyle at the Olympic Games in Rio. Thus, the girls established several new achievements at once, according to the Chicago Tribune. Simone became the first African American woman to ...
Israeli judoka Yarden Jerby won Israel's first Olympic medal in 8 years. She became the third in judo competition in weight up to 63 kg, ILand.tv reports. An Israeli judoka won the third place match against a Japanese athlete. The Prime Minister of Israel has already ...
On August 9, American swimmer Michael Phelps won two gold medals at the Rio Olympics - he came first in the 200-meter butterfly, just 0,04 seconds ahead of Japanese swimmer Masato Sakai, in addition, the American team (Conor Dwyer,...
41-year-old gymnast from Uzbekistan Oksana Chusovitina competed at the seventh Olympic Games in her career on August 7, and at the moment she is the only gymnast who has succeeded. One of her competitors in Rio was Croatian Ana Derek, born in 1998, who...
American Michael Phelps in the US Olympic team won gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and became a 19-time Olympic champion, Team USA reports. In the final, the American team of Phelps, Dressel, Held and Adrian showed ...
The International Gymnastics Federation named one of the five new elements in honor of the Ukrainian athlete Igor Radivilov. The diagram of the new jump was published on the federation website. The Radivilov jump, an exercise invented by the Ukrainian, is a forward leap when, after pushing off from the supporting bridge, the gymnast...
American tennis player Venus Williams sensationally lost in the first round of the Olympic Games. The sister of the first racket of the world lost to Belgian Kirsten Flipkens (62nd place in the list of the best tennis players). In the 1/32 final match, Williams lost in three games - 4:6, 6:3, 7:6 (7:5), writes...