After probes in nine states and twelve issued warrants, Brazilian police have arrested ten suspects, including one minor, for plotting jihadist attacks on the upcoming 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Following a wave of violence that has left three dead and five injured by stray bullets in 72 hours, Brazil’s Secretary of Public Security José Mariano Beltrame implied the problem has no solution less than a month from the Olympic Games: “Historically, unfortunately, that is how Rio de Janeiro is.”
Two male British athletes are competing for slots in women’s athletic events at this year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro — under rules which allow genetic males to switch into women’s lanes.
Brazil’s Health Minister, Ricardo Barros, told the nation’s Senate that he believes there is “practically zero” chance of an outbreak of Zika virus during next month’s Summer Olympics.
On Wednesday’s “SportsCenter” on ESPN, host Scott Van Pelt weighed in on the upcoming 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, saying the state of the country means Brazil “had no business” getting to host or even attempting to host
Olympic sailors, practicing for the opening of the Games in August, say their venue, Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay, is so polluted their boats are turning brown from being in the water.
Rio de Janeiro’s hospitals are running out of syringes and basic medications, and their staffs are running on little to no pay, with one month to go before the city hosts the 2016 Summer Olympics.
According to a Fox News report, the “Welcome to hell” sign greeting visitors to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympic games may not be far off from the truth. Human body parts have reportedly washed up on the beach
Bruce Jenner triumphantly posed for the cover of Sports Illustrated this week with the gold medal he won at the 1976 Olympics, telling the magazine that he chose to pretend to be a “macho male” at those summer games in Montreal because it was the only “way to convince myself that the woman living inside of me really [wasn’t] living inside me.”
The governor of Rio de Janeiro state, Francisco Dornelles, told the Brazilian newspaper O Globo on Monday that the Summer Olympics hosted in the state’s capital city may be a “big failure” due to the pervasive lack of funding for health and security infrastructure, leaving tourists and athletes exposed to crime and disease.
The government of Brazil has assured the world it will put on a spectacular show during August’s Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro despite the many problems casting a shadow over preparations: a Zika epidemic, rampant political corruption, an economic collapse, and now a new crime wave threatening tourists and athletes alike.
The International Association of Athletics Federations banned Russia’s track and field team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro as a result of extensive doping and corruption charges.
Adding more worries vexing the Summer Olympics coming up soon in Rio de Janeiro, the struggling South American city has had to call in the military to put down an exploding crime wave just ahead of the games this August.
On what the International Olympic Committee president referred to as a “historic day,” the IOC announced that for the first time ever a team of refugees will participate in the Olympics in 2016.
Australia’s national women’s soccer team – hotly tipped for a medal at the Rio Olympics – has been thrashed 7-0 by a team of under-15-year-old boys. Students at Yale University have petitioned their English Department for a change of curriculum. They
The International Boxing Association voted on Wednesday to allow professionals to compete at the Olympics.
A Brazilian 16-year-old girl whose rape at the hands of 33 men surfaced in a Facebook video last week says she is receiving death threats for seeking police help, even as the Rio de Janeiro police chief himself refused to believe her story.
With new allegations of Russian athletes engaging in massive doping during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, U.S. Olympians are renewing their call for a thorough investigation and are decrying the lax anti-doping rules for athletes of other countries saying tougher U.S. laws put U.S. competitors at a disadvantage.
With the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro only a few months away, new reports that the ocean waters and rivers around Brazil’s premier city are still hazardous to the health of sportsmen are being heard.
Olympic gold medalist and musician Shaun White is being sued by the female drummer in his band, “Bad Things,” who is alleging that White sexually harassed her and did not pay her for her performance in the group.
Kenya’s was declared “non-compliant” with the World Anti-Doping Agency’s rules, putting the African nation’s athletes on notice that they may end up ineligible for the Summer Olympics coming up in Rio this year.
Blasting the World Health Organization’s (WHO) silence on the Zika virus in Latin America as “deplorable, incompetent and dangerous,” professor Amir Attaran writes in the Harvard Public Health Review that there is no way to continue with the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on schedule without exposing millions to the threat of contracting Zika virus.
Medical experts are warning that new studies show the Zika virus is capable not only of producing in unborn children the brain defect microcephaly, but a variety of severe neurological deformities that could impair a child in unpredictable ways.
The mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, has given his first interview since the deadly collapse of a bridge built for the 2016 Summer Olympics, attempting to reassure natives and tourists alike that the Olympics will be safe and his team will “double-check” every detail.
As Rio de Janeiro prepares to welcome the world’s sports enthusiasts for August’s Summer Olympic Games, human rights activists are warning that Brazilian authorities are “cleaning the streets” of Rio by detaining poor children to keep them out of the sight of tourists.
Donald Trump is looking to November by taking a swipe at President Obama. During a campaign rally, the GOP frontrunner called Obama “incompetent” for the way he handled the negotiations over whether the Olympics would take place in the U.S.
A new study finds that up to 2.2 billion people worldwide are at risk of contracting the Zika virus, which can cause irreparable damage to unborn children and cause painful nerve damage. The study adds to the woes looming over Brazil – the epicenter of the Zika outbreak – as the nation prepares to welcome thousands for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
An expose charges horrendous human rights abuses perpetrated by the South Korean government in the years surrounding the 1988 Olympics.
With Brazil spiraling into political chaos and getting hit by a severe economic downturn, it’s easy to forget that Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Summer Olympics in only four months.
Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, is soon to face an impeachment vote in the nation’s House of Representatives, putting Brazil one step closer to her ouster. Possibly even more destabilizing for the country is one attorney’s efforts to force the legislature to impeach Vice President Michel Temer, as well, as Temer prepares to potentially become head of state.
With 220,000 troops on the ground and 315,000 public officials on call, the operation to eradicate the Zika virus from Brazil has become the largest military operation in that nation’s history. Many fear attempts to eradicate the mosquito-borne illness before the Summer Olympics in August will not be enough, however, as scientists study the deadly complications that accompany the disease.
The head of Brazil’s National Force for Public Security, Col. Adilson Moreira, has resigned, citing his disgust with the ongoing corruption scandal engulfing the administration of President Dilma Rousseff. The resignation leaves security operations for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro mostly unmanned until Rousseff names a replacement.
Henrique Alves, Brazil’s Minister of Tourism, has resigned in what is being interpreted as the first of a long exodus of allies of leftist President Dilma Rousseff that may facilitate her impeachment by the legislature. It is not yet unclear who Rousseff will appoint to replace Alves and run tourism operations during the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The International Olympic Commission issued a statement saying it was “closely monitoring” the increasingly unstable political situation in Brazil, but was “very confident” the nation would be able to competently host the Summer Olympics this August regardless of the outcome of weeks of protests demanding impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.
New England Patriots safety Nate Ebner is taking a leave of absence from the NFL to pursue a spot on the U.S. Olympic Rugby Team, his agent reported this week.
Manny Pacquiao says that he may fight again after his retirement — just not professionally.
Last fall, the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) published an internal memo that expressed concern that Brazilian authorities would not properly clean the water in Rio de Janeiro before the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Tennis star Rafael Nadal told the media the recent Zika outbreak in Brazil does not worry him as he prepares for the Rio Open.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided not to postpone the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro despite the widespread presence of Zika virus in host nation Brazil.
With fears over the virulent Zika virus rolling across the Western Hemisphere, U.S. Olympics officials have hired a retinue of experts on infectious diseases to advise the committee for the upcoming games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.