Thirty-one-year-old Michael Phelps is calling it a career, and this time he means it. The decorated Olympic swimmer announced Monday in an interview with NBC’s “Today” show host Matt Lauer that he is “done” and is going out the way he
TEL AVIV – The Olympics opening ceremony must include a commemoration for the 11 Israeli athletes and coaches killed by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics, Israel’s Minister for Culture and Sport said Sunday.
Brazilian civilian police are opening an investigation into the robbery at gunpoint of American Olympics swimming champion Ryan Lochte and three other athletes, who contend men with “police badges” held them up at gunpoint and stole their wallets.
The Olympic golf tournament got off to an unconventional start when a small group of environmental protestors gathered outside of the newly constructed golf course. A group of ten protesters from the Occupy Golf movement on the Avenues of the Americas in Barra de Tijuca.
As if the crime, political instability, dicey infrastructure, questionable sanitation, and Zika weren’t bad enough, Olympic tourists also find themselves set upon by swarms of predatory hackers.
Ryan Lochte and three other American swimmers were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday by thieves posing as police officers who stopped their taxi and took their money and belongings, the U.S. Olympic Committee said.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israeli judoka Or Sasson on Saturday he is “the true face of Israel” after the athlete won an Olympic bronze medal in Rio on the day before.
Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble are among a list of companies that refuse to sponsor five-time Olympic medalist and Second Amendment proponent Kim Rhode.
Kim Rhode also stressed James Madison’s point, that Americans have guns to fend off government overreach and tyranny. Rhode said, “[The Second Amendment is] also to defend ourselves against our own government.”
Police in Rio de Janeiro are refusing to confirm, despite witness statements, that a bus full of international basketball journalists was shot at on its way to the main Olympic park, arguing that assailants could have broken the bus’s windows by throwing rocks at it.
The Olympics opening ceremonies occurred only days ago, but Rio de Janeiro has already been the scene of some outrageous criminal scenarios, placing athletes, officers, and even top-ranked security officials in the line of fire.
Portugal’s minister of education was held up at knifepoint after leaving an Olympic venue in Ipanama, Rio de Janeiro, on Saturday. He temporarily lost some valuables before civilians stopped and beat the robbers and retrieved the loot.
NBC was apparently so impressed with Leslie Jones’ profanity-laced live-tweeting of the 2016 Olympics that the network invited the Ghostbusters star to Rio so she could live-tweet the action from up close.
TEL AVIV – An Israeli startup for emergencies and distress calls was selected to set up shop in Rio as part of the Olympics’ comprehensive security network.
Democrats and the media have already begun to blame Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for the possibility that Los Angeles will lose its bid to host the Olympics in 2024.
On Friday, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama sent out a message to the entire United States Olympic team, encouraging them to bring home the gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Follow Trent Baker on Twitter @MagnifiTrent
Rio officials lost the keys to the Olympic Stadium days before the opening ceremony Friday.
Am I too late to suggest a symbol for tonight’s Rio Olympics opening ceremony? I do hope not because it’s an absolute cracker which I’m sure will grab attention across the world and capture the mood and spirit of the host city quite perfectly.
Even as the Olympic Games launch in Rio de Janeiro tonight, fresh allegations that America’s biggest gymnastics organization has not done enough to investigate charges of the sexual abuse of young athletes by officials and coaches make headlines.
The U.S. women’s soccer team beat New Zealand to open the Olympics on Wednesday. The Brazilian fans beat up the American goalkeeper.
A month ago, Breitbart brought you a list of alarming unresolved problems in Rio de Janeiro in anticipation of this week’s Olympics Opening Ceremony. That ceremony is scheduled for tomorrow, and officials are still struggling to resolve problems that threaten not only embarrassment for Brazil, but the lives of those attending the Games.
TEL AVIV – The largest-ever Palestinian delegation will compete in the summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with one caveat: half of them are German.
The man wearing the most gold will be bearing the red, white, and blue in Brazil.
Brazilian authorities have announced the arrest of Lebanese Hezbollah member Fadi Hassan Nahba, wanted by Interpol for drug trafficking since 2013. Authorities admitted they did not know he was working with the jihadi terror group until he personally told them after his arrest this week.
American officials flew their Brazilian counterparts to the Super Bowl, the U.S. Open golf tournament, and other major sporting venues to show them how the United States handles security at major sporting events in anticipation of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, The New York Times reports.
Tens of thousands of protesters in at least fifty municipalities across Brazil took to the streets Sunday to protest the corruption of the Workers’ Party and its leader, impeached president Dilma Rousseff. Aware of mounting international attention as the Olympics
U.S. Olympic rower Megan Kalmoe says she is getting tired of the discussion about how bad the water quality is in and around the Rio Olympic games and hopes the discussion will turn to the athletes instead.
According to a report in a Brazilian newspaper, NBC has asked Olympics officials in Rio to move the United States contingent of athletes closer to the end of the Parade of Nations during the opening broadcast of the games.
Brazilian authorities have completed the arrests of suspects identified in Operation Hashtag, a mission to shut down an Islamic State terrorist cell planning a jihadist attack on the upcoming Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Most are converts to Islam, one is an unnamed minor, and two of the suspects have served time in prison for murder.
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.
