RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – The price tag for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro has risen by 400 million reais ($99.3 million) since August mainly due to rising costs of supplying temporary power and seating at venues, the head of the group monitoring spending said on Friday. The projected total cost for the […]
LONDON (Reuters) – World Sailing’s chief says his efforts to get the Olympic sailing venue shifted from Rio’s polluted Guanabara Bay to the cleaner and safer Buzios, a coastal resort some 160 km (100 miles) away, resulted in his being voted off the body. Peter Sowrey, who left in December, told the AP news agency […]
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – The New Zealand women’s soccer team have qualified for this year’s Rio Olympics after Papua New Guinea failed to travel to Auckland for the second leg of their qualifying final having failed to obtain the necessary visas. New Zealand had won the first leg of the Oceania qualifying final 7-1 in Lae […]
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian shooter Nur Suryani Mohd Taibi, who competed at the London Olympics while over seven months pregnant, has missed out on a place at the Rio de Janeiro Games later this year as she is expecting her second child. The 33-year-old was due to take part in the Asian Olympics Qualifying […]
REUTERS – Australia’s former world champion swimmer and double Olympic silver medallist Christian Sprenger announced his retirement on Thursday, citing injury and a lack of motivation only months before the Rio Games. Second in the 100 metres breaststroke at the 2012 London Olympics, and a world champion in 2013 in the same discipline, Sprenger said […]
World number one Jordan Spieth and rival Rory McIlroy begged to differ on Wednesday on the importance of winning golfing gold at the Rio Olympics this August.
REUTERS – American sprinter Allyson Felix will get a rare chance to win gold in both the 200 and 400 metres after the global athletics governing body changed the Rio Olympics competition schedule. “I am excited for the opportunity to attempt this incredibly difficult feat,” Felix said on her Twitter account. “The schedule was just […]
