5pm Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland has won the Olympic women's hammer throw gold medal with a world record of 82.29 meters. Zhang Wenxiu of China took silver with her season-best 76.75 and...

Even a lumbering start couldn't slow down the world's fastest man. Usain Bolt became the first person to win three straight Olympic 100-meter titles, blowing down the straightaway in 9.81 seconds...

6:45 p.m. Lucie Hradecka and Radek Stepanek have won the bronze medal in Olympic tennis mixed doubles. ...

Michael Phelps claimed his 23rd gold medal. Puerto Rico won its first ever. And Jamaica got its first gold of the Rio Games with an emphatic win in the marquee Olympic sprinting...

8:20 p.m. The IAAF says it has banned the only Russian in Olympic track and field from competition and that she is appealing the ruling. Slow out of the blocks but majestic once he hit his stride, he had time to look left four times to see if anyone was creeping up on him. He coasted across the line in 10.07 seconds....

The Daily Beast has withdrawn a story that prompted ire of many readers, complaining that it could have outed gay athletes at the Rio Games. The story's removal from the site Thursday...

Katie Ledecky even upstaged Michael Phelps at the Olympics on Friday. Ledecky set a world record by winning the women's 800-meter freestyle by an astounding 11.38 seconds. She's only the second...

Maltese athlete Charlotte Wingfield was eliminated early this morning after finishing last in one of the heats of the women’s 100m race at the Rio Olympic Games....

6:55 p.m. Olympic organizers say a taxi carrying two members of the German delegation were involved in a serious accident in Rio de Janeiro and one of them was hospitalized....

An Armenian weightlifter crashed out of the Olympics in agony as his left elbow gave way during a second attempt to lift 195kg.   The 20-year-old Andranik Karapetyan was one...