Chinese boxer Lü Bin was reduced to tears when reflecting on his controversial defeat at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro that caused him to accuse the judges of "stealing" his dream.

Ticket prices for the next year's Olympics in Paris are broadly similar to those at previous Games and used London 2012 as a benchmark, organisers have claimed.

A key member of the coaching squad for Great Britain’s Olympic gold medal-winning women’s hockey team at Rio 2016 has died.

Brazilian Olympic gold medallist Wallace de Souza has been suspended by his club Cruzeiro after the volleyball player conducted a social media poll asking his audience if he should shoot newly-elected President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in the face.

Nigerian two-time Olympic medal-winning football coach Samson Siasia has lost an appeal to overturn a ban for match fixing at a court in New York City.

Beach volleyball player Bruno Schmidt, one of the stars of Brazil's home Olympic Games at Rio de Janeiro in 2016, has retired from the sport at the age of 36.

Jamaica’s former world 100 metres champion Yohan Blake plans to hang up his spikes after next year’s Olympic Games in Paris, he has revealed.

The Kenyan High Court has ruled Stephen Soi to be innocent in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games corruption case following his appeal.

Olympic javelin silver medallist Sunette Viljoen-Louw hopes to represent South Africa at their home Women's T20 World Cup next month following her return to cricket.

Olympic silver medallist Petrissa Solja has retired from professional table tennis at the age of 28 as she feels she has achieved all she can in the sport.

Rio 2016 Olympic gold medallist and two-time world champion Gwen Jorgensen has planned a surprise return to triathlon with the aim of competing for the United States in the mixed relay at Paris 2024.

The champions have been crowned at the Boccia World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, with athletes from eight different countries topping the podium in the men’s and women’s events across the BC1-BC4 categories.

Double Olympic 800 metres gold medallist and world record holder David Rudisha has survived a plane crash in Kenya, which he described as "a scary episode."

Patrick Hickey today officially resigned from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) more than six-years after he self-suspended himself following his arrest during the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, it was announced here.

Nearly a year after being sentenced to more than 30 years in prison, former Rio 2016 and Brazilian Olympic Committee President Carlos Nuzman is still a free man.