Which one of the two cities will be the first to host the Olympics, will be announced only in September, according to the decision of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland. Initially, Hamburg, Budapest, Rome, Paris and Los Angeles ...

Ukraine’s Iurii Cheban has won gold with 39.279 points in the final round of the single canoeing event. Valentin Demyanenko from Azerbaijan claimed the silver medal with 39.493 points, bronze went to the Barazilian Isaquias Queiroz Dos Santos (39.628 points). ...

Ukraine’s athlete Bohdan Bondarenko has won the bronze medal in high jump at 2.33 m at the Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Joinfo.ua reports. The Canadian Derek Drouhin has won gold with the result of 2.38 m and Motaz ...

The Ukrainian gymnast Oleh Verniaiev, 22, has won the gold medal with the result of 16.041 points, Joinfo.ua reports. USA’s Danell Leyva won the silver medal with 15.900 points, Russia’s David Belyavskiy got 15.783 points and won the bronze medal. Verniaiev ...

Ukraine’s Zhan Beleniuk won the silver medal in a Wrestling Men’s Greco-Roman 85 kg competition at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Monday August 15, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to Interfax-Ukraine. In the decisive fight, he was beaten ...

Verniaiev was competing in the artistic gymnastics men’s individual all-around on Wednesday evening, UNIAN reports. Earlier, the gymnast took the first place in the qualification round on August 6 and was close to confirming his spot in the competition on ...

Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina outplayed the American in two sets of women’s tournament with a score of 6:4 and 6:3 and reached the quarterfinals, Joinfo.ua reports. On August 10, Svitolina will play the two-times Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova from ...

Ukrainian Olga Kharlan has won the bronze medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Monday evening. She won Manon Brunet from France with the score 15:10, Joinfo.ua reports. The Russians Yana Egorian and Sofya Velikaya won the gold and ...

“Kou Lei defeated the representative of France and continues to fight in the table tennis tournament at the Olympic Games,” the press-service of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine said, Interfax-Ukraine reports. Earlier Lei has outplayed the Egyptian Amar Assar by ...

“Our gymnast has reached the final in his best vault and helped the whole team. We cheer for Ihor [Radivilov] very much,” Minister of Youth and Sport Ihor Zhdanov wrote on his Facebook page, according to Interfax-Ukraine. Earlier the representative ...

An independent commission set up by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has been investigating the allegations and will publish its findings on Monday, BBC reports. Any adverse revelations could increase pressure on Russia to be banned from the Rio Olympics ...

IOC President Thomas Bach said after a special Olympic summit in Lausanne, Switzerland, on June 21 that the measure is being introduced because the Russian and Kenyan anti-doping agencies are unreliable and put “very serious doubts on the presumption of ...

Russia, a superpower of track and field, had lobbied furiously to avert the prospect of a Summer Olympics athletics program taking place without its athletes, and argued that it was taking all the steps required of it to dispel charges ...

The report was published two days before athletics’ governing body rules on whether Russian competitors can take part in the Rio Olympics this summer, BBC reports. In November, Russia’s athletes were banned after a Wada report highlighted widespread failing in ...

A newly built elevated bike path has collapsed into the sea in Rio de Janeiro, killing at least two people and damaging the city’s credibility as an Olympic host, The Guardian reports. A huge wave swept away a 50-metre stretch ...