2016 Olympic Games news

Chelsea Warr, the UK Sport performance director, has stepped down from her role to join the Queensland Academy of Sport as chief executive later this ... More

UK Athletics has launched an independent review of its handling of the relationship it had with the high-profile Nike Oregon Project (NOP) and its coach ... More

A new marketing campaign has been launched to showcase the "best of British sport" around the world. The ‘Sport is GREAT’ has been timed to ... More

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has taken what it calls "concrete steps" to tackle gender inequality at all levels of sport. The organisation said it ... More

Julie Harrington – the woman responsible for running Wembley Stadium for the Football Association (FA) – has been appointed to head up under-fire governing body ... More

A report suggesting that the vast majority of the British public was not inspired by Team GB’s medal success at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games ... More

The success experienced by Team GB’s gymnastic squad at the Rio 2016 Olympics has contributed to further growth in grassroots participants. Recreational club participation grew ... More

British Swimming has made changes to the way its National Centres operate in an attempt to capitalise on a strong Rio 2016 Olympic Games. From ... More

National Olympic Committees (NOCs) are in line to receive a funding boost from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to aid refugee athletes living in their ... More

Fitness equipment giant Technogym has recorded double digit sales growth during Q3, driven largely by impressive growth in the North American market. The Italy-based group, ... More

The average cost of a Team GB Olympic medal has been calculated at £4.29m (€4.75m, US$5.25m) – with gymnastics and shooting finishing as the most ... More

E-commerce giant Alibaba has earmarked an eye-watering US$100m (£81.9m, €91.6m) for the development of rugby in China over the next 10 years. The organisation’s sports ... More

GB Taekwondo has received backing from UK Sport as it bids to host three major events over the next three years. Manchester is at the ... More

Max Whitlock, Amy Tinkler and Bryony Page are among the athletes invited to compete at the World Cup of Gymnastics, which will take place at ... More

Seven athletes supported by GLL (Greenwich Leisure Ltd) through its sports foundation came home from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games with medals. The medal winners ... More

The economic impact of hosting the 2012 Olympics could hit £41bn (US$53.8bn, €48.5bn) for London, although the debate about its overall legacy rumbles on. According ... More

Officials have inaugurated Rio’s Olympic City Museum one month ahead of the opening ceremony for Brazil’s 2016 Olympic Games. The new museum and digital centre ... More

Infrastructure projects built for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio are being investigated for corruption by the city’s council. Rio de Janeiro City Council has ... More

Danish studio Henning Larsen Architects have been commissioned to create a special cultural pavilion in Rio de Janeiro to celebrate the 2016 Olympic Games. The ... More

Rio de Janeiro’s hotly-anticipated Museau do Amanhã (Museum of Tomorrow) – designed by prize-winning Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava – will be officially opened tomorrow (17 ... More

Elite sport quango, UK Sport, will receive a 29 per cent increase in government funding to help Britain’s athletes at the 2016 Olympic Games in ... More

The organising committee of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is to make deep spending cuts in order to avoid going over its allocated US$3.6bn (£2.4bn) ... More

The Rio de Janeiro water which athletes will be swimming and sailing in for the 2016 Olympic Games contains so much human faeces that competitors ... More

Fitness First has kicked off the countdown to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games by working with Team GB to launch a new Sports Profiler Tool ... More

India is “not ready” to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee. Bach, speaking after a ... More