The sensation performance by Ukraine’s 2016 team yielded 9 more gold medals than during the Paralympic Games in London, the press service of the National Paralympics Committee said, according to Interfax-Ukraine. The Ukrainian team finished third in the overall team ...

Men’s Football gold medal match was held in Rio as well as Men’s Team Table Tennis finals, with both events resulting in National Team Ukraine winning, UNIAN agency reports. Ukrainian football players defeated the Iranian team, who in turn had ...

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). ...

“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 ...

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 ...

An actor performing the role of high priestess lit the torch by using the sun’s rays, BBC reports. The torch will be taken by various runners on an international relay that will culminate at the opening ceremony in Rio de ...

Russia is running out of time to eradicate doping and may not be able to send a track and field team to this year’s Rio Olympics, Dick Pound, chair of the World Anti-Doping Agency independent commission, said on Wednesday, Reuters ...