The Court of Arbitration for Sport has confirmed Russia's ban from the Paralympic Games as punishment for a state-backed doping program. CAS announced its urgent verdict Tuesday to dismiss...

Usain Bolt is leaving and insists he's not coming back. How will track and field ever be the same? The departure of the sport's most electric athlete from the Olympics certainly makes the...

For some nations, winning Olympic gold is quite the regular occurrence. At the Rio de Janeiro Games, plenty of first-timers got to hear their anthems played in celebration as well. 10 teams...

The Brazilians closed out the Rio Games in style Sunday. So did the U.S. men's basketball team. Kevin Durant scored 30 points and helped the Americans rout Serbia 96-66 for their third straight...

Shaking to samba and expressing a sense of longing with uniquely Brazilian words, Olympians and fans said goodbye to the Rio Games with one last big bash that was both revelatory and a sigh...

10:35 p.m. The U.S. Olympic men's basketball team won its third straight gold medal and did it easily, beating Serbia 96-66. With the win, the Americans claim the final medal of the Rio Games....

7.30pm British fighter Nicola Adams has won her second-straight Olympic boxing gold medal....

Usain Bolt bid goodbye with another gold medal. Ryan Lochte apologized on Instagram. Bolt won his ninth Olympic medal Friday night, anchoring the Jamaicans' winning 4x100 relay...

Hilarious footage has captured the moment BBC presenter Dan Walker was interrupted by two people apparently having sex behind him on a beach in Rio. Walker couldn't help but smile as he presented...

4:20 p.m. U.S swimmer Ryan Lochte has apologized for his behavior surrounding a late-night incident at a Rio de Janeiro gas station, saying he should have been more careful and candid about how he described what happened....