Sports & Competitions

RIO DE JANIERO — Ryan Lochte fabricated a story about a gunpoint robbery earlier this week and was actually involved in a scuffle at a gas station, Brazilian police officials told the Associated Press on Thursday. Meanwhile, Brazilian police told ABC News that there is a tape showing Lochte or one of the three U.S.

RIO DE JANEIRO — They didn’t want to be here. They didn’t want to play this match. Why did they have to play this match? When Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross stepped on to the sand at Rio’s beach volleyball arena on Copacabana Beach a couple of hours before midnight Wednesday, they wanted to

RIO DE JANEIRO — Moments after she had left the track after leading the first-ever 1-2-3 sweep by athletes from one country in the 100-meter hurdles, Brianna Rollins clutched a precious golden object in her right hand. Her prize? Not a medal — an apple. “I’m so hungry,” she said, the only downside of waiting

RIO DE JANEIRO — Simone Biles didn’t quite feel like she truly belonged to the Famous U.S. Olympian Club. She admitted to feeling a “little nervous” around the likes of swimmers Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky during a recent photo shoot. She was underestimating herself. Another gold-medal performance by the transcendent talent suggested the club

Ryan Lochte has come clean about the confusion surrounding the robbery he and three other American swimmers endured at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Lochte told USA Today that they didn’t tell the U.S. Olympic Committee about the incident that happened early Sunday “because we were afraid we’d get in trouble.” When reports

RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian judge ordered local police to seize the passports of U.S. swimmers Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen on Wednesday to bar them from leaving the country after the athletes said they were part of a group robbed at gunpoint earlier this week. In a statement, Judge Keyla Blanc de Cnop

RIO DE JANEIRO — On the way to the Rio Olympic Arena for the final day of gymnastics competition Tuesday, Lauren Hernandez tried to encourage U.S. teammate Aly Raisman, who was competing in the floor exercise later in the day, and in the process summed up the sport in the era of Simone Biles. “Aly

RIO DE JANEIRO—For all of the troubles during the first week and a half of the Summer Olympics, the stadium-shaking potential of the enterprise pounded through the beach volleyball venue on the Copacabana shore in the early hours of Wednesday. Members of the sellout crowd chanted “monster block” and waved their arms in unison while

In the final women’s gymnastics event of the Rio Olympics, the floor exercise, Aly Raisman fell just short of gold, although one can hardly blame her. Raisman’s floor routine features the most complex opening tumble in the world, with four separate kinds of flips in a row. It helped her win gold in London in