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After being one of those most critical of the concept of Olympic golf, Rory McIlroy is sort of coming around on the concept. McIlroy admitted that he’d watched a bit of the golf and came away impressed with how it turned out. “It …
Filed under great ideas in theory but not quite in practice: matching luggage for Great Britain’s Olympic team. Sure, it’s cool and a nice show of solidarity at first, but then you get to baggage claim and you realize that you have a …
U.S. Olympic swimmer Jimmy Feigen, one of the four athletes who were involved in the gas station incident in Rio, says Brazilian officials tried to get him to pay a fine of more than $46,000 before he left the country. In a statement he released late …
Even prior to the opening ceremonies at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio, the worldwide event was covered by a dark cloud and cast into controversy due to both the Zika virus and heavily polluted waters. Several major athletes from across the …
Kyle Lowry is one of the more underappreciated talents in the NBA, but he earned his stripes playing for USA Basketball this summer in the eyes of Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim. In an interview with Michael Rosenberg of Sports Illustrated after …
Kevin Durant really needed to get away, and he credits the Olympics with being a big help. Durant told Michael Lee of the Vertical that the Olympics were therapeutic for him after a summer of criticism stemming from his jump from Oklahoma City to …
You’ll never be able to accuse Sam Kendricks of not being patriotic. Kendricks pulled off one of the coolest things we saw at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio when he stopped mid pole vault attempt to stand attention in observance of the …
Australia was denied a medal in the Olympic men’s basketball tournament by the narrowest of margins, and center Andrew Bogut was about as pleased as Ayesha Curry after an NBA Finals game. After Australia’s 89-88 loss to Spain in the …
An emotional Carmelo Anthony wrapped up his USA Basketball career with a third gold medal on Sunday, and gave a fantastic interview after Team USA’s 96-66 win over Serbia in the final game. Anthony confirmed that he was ending his international …
Back before they were stars and famous athletes, those who competed at the Olympics and won gold medals for their country were just aspiring dreamers. Maybe they one day wanted to win gold. Maybe they one day wanted to be like their hero. But they …
Ryan Lochte and his fellow U.S. swimmers aren’t out of the woods yet. U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun told the Associated Press that Lochte and his three teammates — Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger, and Jimmy Feigen — would be …
A pair of Mongolian wrestling coaches ripped off their clothes and refused to leave the mat over what they felt was unfair scoring that cost their man a bronze medal at the Rio Olympics on Sunday. Mongolia’s Mandakhnaran Ganzoring was facing …
Simone Biles will receive one last honor at the Rio Olympics: she’ll be the U.S. flag bearer at Sunday’s closing ceremony. The announcement was made Saturday morning via the U.S. Olympic Team’s Twitter account. BREAKING: …
On Friday, the U.S. women captured the gold meal in the 4×100 relay. Unfortunately, their counterparts were not as successful in the final of their race. Heading into the men’s 4×100 relay final, Jamaica was understandably the …
Brianne Theisen-Eaton and husband Ashton Eaton have been two of the stars of the Rio Olympics. The couple, which met in college at the University of Oregon, brought home two medals from Rio. Ashton repeated as the gold medal winner in the decathlon, …
American swimmer Gunnar Bentz issued a statement on Friday that shares his account of what transpired Sunday morning during the incident in Rio that has led to international infamy for the U.S. swim team. Bentz, who issued his statement through his …
