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Mr England said: “We always said we were taking away our most talented team and it wasn’t just rhetoric. I genuinely believed it. I was also pretty confident we would make history and be the most successful team we have ever taken away from home, and it hasn’t just been about the medals, it’s been about millions of people screaming at their televisions, whether they were watching Mo Farah, the…

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RIO DE JANEIRO Neymar shed tears of joy after delivering Brazil’s first men’s soccer gold medal with the winning penalty in a 5-4 shootout triumph over Germany after a thrilling final ended in a draw following extra-time on Saturday. Brazil had lost the Olympic final three times – in 1984, 1988 and 2012 – but they finally got the gold they craved on a dramatic night at the Maracana stadium…

Veteran swimmer Ryan Lochte’s brush with Rio police has already hurt his appeal to sponsors – but for two lesser-known team mates, it means they may never get a chance to sign their first major deal. Lochte has several major sponsors, including fashion house Ralph Lauren, which took down any reference to the gold medalist on its website on Friday, and swimwear company Speedo which has said it is following…

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For the sixth Olympics running, the United States women’s basketball team is golden. The United States walloped Spain 101-72 on Saturday to win the gold medal in Rio. Spain kept it from getting out of hand early, sticking with the gold medalists for most of the first half. They were within three points with just over six minutes remaining in the second quarter when Geno Auriemma pulled out his ultimate…

There is a new gold medalist in women’s field hockey. Great Britain claimed the gold medal after defeating the Netherlands 2-0 in a historic shootout win. With time winding down and the pressure increasing, it was anybody’s game with the score tied at three all. Great Britain’s Nicola White scored the game-tying goal on a rebound off of a penalty corner that would ultimately send the two teams into a shootout….

Triathlete Gwen Jorgensen makes her second Olympic appearance. USA TODAY Sports

x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Nate Scott breaks down probable highlights in the Rio Games on Aug. 20. USA TODAY Sports Great Britain defender Hollie Webb (20) celebrates with teammates after scoring the game winning goal in a shoot out past Netherlands goalkeeper Joyce Sombroek during the gold medal match in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games at Olympic Hockey Centre.(Photo: Geoff Burke, USA TODAY Sports) RIO DE…

Media playback is not supported on this device Bolt wins ninth Olympic gold medal Usain Bolt ended his Olympic career by claiming an unprecedented ‘triple triple’ and his ninth gold as Jamaica won the 4x100m relay final in Rio. Bolt, 29, had won the 100m and 200m in Rio and is the only man to win all three sprint events at three Games. He combined with Asafa Powell, Yohan Blake…

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By official count, there are twenty-eight sports, three hundred and six events, and twenty-four hundred and eighty-eight available medals at this year’s Rio Olympics. The more than eleven thousand participating athletes represent two hundred and six countries, which duke it out over sixteen days in a ritualized display of prowess that is as pricey as it is purposeless. There’s pro-forma talk of sportsmanship and international coöperation, but even the opening…

There is a new gold medalist in women’s field hockey. Great Britain claimed the gold medal after defeating the Netherlands 2-0 in a historic shootout win. With time winding down and the pressure increasing, it was anybody’s game with the score tied at three all. Great Britain’s Nicola White scored the game-tying goal on a rebound off of a penalty corner that would ultimately send the two teams into a shootout….

x Embed x Share Lochte and three U.S. swimmers said they were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday, with Lochte saying their cab was pulled over by men impersonating police officers. Fans at the Olympic track stadium leave no doubt where they stand on Ryan Lochte.(Photo: John David Mercer, USA TODAY Sports) RIO DE JANIERO – The only thing possibly standing between embattled U.S. Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte and a…

Back in June, Steve Burke described what he called his Olympics “nightmare.” “We wake up someday and the ratings are down 20 percent,” the chief executive officer of NBCUniversal said at a conference. “If that happens, my prediction would be that millennials had been in a Facebook bubble or a Snapchat bubble and the Olympics have come, and they didn’t know it.” He has escaped that with the Rio games…

It takes a city nearly a decade to plan for the Olympics, from the invitation to declare interest by the International Olympic Committee to the selection to the opening ceremony seven years later. Previous hosts used the Games to bulk up infrastructure (stadiums, housing, transportation) in a bid to attract global investment. Pledges were made to repurpose existing structures or tear down and reuse what would be built, as Rio…

U.S Olympic 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. Lochte said in a lengthy post on Instagram Friday that he was apologizing for his role in taking the focus away from other Olympic athletes. “This was a situation that could and should have…

Media captionFootage has been released purportedly showing four US swimmers at a petrol station in Rio US Olympic swimmer Jimmy Feigen has agreed to pay nearly $11,000 to a Brazilian charity over his involvement in a dispute about an armed robbery. He was one of four gold medallists who hit the headlines after Ryan Lochte said the group had been robbed in Rio. CCTV footage contradicted their story, showing the…

Image copyright Getty Images The gold medals and moments of high drama are all very well, but what about the strange little details that have marked out the Rio Olympics? Here are some of the curiosities and lesser-spotted oddities witnessed so far at the Games. US gymnasts’ leotards are bedecked with thousands of crystals Image copyright Getty Images Simple lycra is not enough for Team USA. At this tournament, many…