On August 16, former FIFA President João Havelange, who died in the Samaritano Hospital in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 100, died due to lung problems. Havelange was born on May 8, 1916 in Rio de Janeiro to a Belgian arms dealer. However, the future president ...
23-year-old Greco-Roman wrestler Davit Chakvetadze won the gold medal of the 2016 Olympic Games, which became the tenth for Russian athletes in the tournament. In the final bout of the weight category up to 85 kg, Chakvetadze was stronger than the reigning world champion Zhan Beleniuk from Ukraine, who was considered ...
In the first 7 days of competition in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the US team took a confident lead in the unofficial medal table. The Russian national team, which suffered numerous losses amid the doping scandal, faced not only the absence of a number of medal contenders (the heavy ...
American gymnast Simone Biles became the 2016 Rio Olympic champion in the absolute all-around. The second was another representative of the US national team, Alexandra Raizman, and Russian Aliya Mustafina won the bronze medal. NBC commentator Al Trautwig incurred the ire of the American public by refusing to name ...
NBC commentator Al Trautwig incurred the wrath of the American public by refusing to call the adoptive mother and father of gymnast Simone Biles “parents.” The day before, 19-year-old Biles and her teammates from the US team won gold medals at the 2016 Olympics team championship in artistic gymnastics. For 10x...
Judoka Khasan Khalmurzaev brought the Russian team the third gold medal at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. This is already the second Russian gold medal in judo competitions after the victory of Beslan Mudranov on the first day of the 2016 Games. 22-year-old Khalmurzaev, a native of the Republic of Ingushetia, became the winner in the weight category up to 81 kg, ...
As an accredited journalist, I worked at two Paralympics - the London 2012 Summer Paralympics and the Sochi Winter 2014 Paralympics. Both times I watched how incredibly athletes with disabilities and boundless spirit overcame themselves and...
American basketball player Kevin Durant will be the highest paid athlete at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Durant tops the list compiled by Forbes magazine. Behind him were tennis players Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, as well as footballer Neymar. The Summer Olympics in Brazil will be attended by ...
American fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad is one of the main contenders for the gold medal in the saber tournament. In 2014 in Kazan she became the world champion in team competitions. However, the 30-year-old athlete will go down in history even before the end of the competition in Rio -...
Olympic athletes pay as much attention to their diet as they do to other elements of training, but even Olympians need to pamper themselves from time to time, writes Share America based on materials from the Associated Press. For some of America's top athletes, their favorite "free day" food is...