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While the workforce will be downsized and changes made to the the transport schedule, the biggest announcement was that the Deorodo Olympic Park would be closed and dismantled. Wheelchair fencing has now been switched to the Barra Olympic Park while equestrian, seven-a-side football and shooting will work as standalone venues. IPC president Sir Philip Craven said: “Since becoming aware of the full scale of the problem, we have focused all…

Whether you want to admit it or not, baseball has a problem. Baseball has become a regional sport. That regional model is financially successful, sure — according to Forbes, 25 of 29 American MLB teams ranked No. 1 on cable in primetime last summer — but it has made the sport as a whole more irrelevant. National TV viewership is down, and it’s not because of cable cutting. People care…

For those who are unfamiliar with my thought process, I aim to add as many home run hitters as possible to my daily fantasy baseball lineups. One way of doing that is to look at a player’s isolated power numbers (ISO). The ISO statistic removes singles and provides a larger weight for each extra-base hit. I also use the weighted on-base average (wOBA) metric. This stat takes every positive outcome into consideration. Last year,…

Brandon Todd reports. Posted:Aug 18 2016 09:35PM CDT Updated:Aug 18 2016 09:39PM CDT Community mourns loss of Paschal HS recent grad, incoming TCU baseball player \n \n News Community mourns loss of Paschal HS recent grad, incoming TCU baseball player The R.L. Paschal High School community is mourning the death of a recent graduate. The R.L. Paschal High School community is mourning the death of a recent graduate. Drew Medford…

During the 2016 Olympics, the U.S. enjoyed a brief, imperfect glimpse of a rare phenomenon in sports: gender equality. Notable gaffes in sexist Olympics coverage aside, high-profile women athletes like swimmers, gymnasts, and runners were front and center during prime-time viewing hours, and women in sports like rugby, field hockey, and shot put also got airtime. A team of researchers even found that NBC’s primetime telecast of the 2016 Rio…

x Embed x Share Lochte and three U.S. swimmers said they were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday, with Lochte saying their cab was pulled over by men impersonating police officers. Jimmy Feigen is one of three U.S. swimmers still in Brazil after allegedly being robbed earlier this week.(Photo: Rob Schumacher, USA TODAY Sports) RIO DE JANEIRO — The money that U.S. swimmer Jimmy Feigen must pay to resolve his legal cases in…

Image copyright EPA Image caption PV Sindhu is the youngest Indian to win an Olympic medal On Thursday night, a 21-year-old became the first Indian woman to qualify for a gold medal contest at the Olympic Games. Ninth-seeded PV Sindhu, lithe and lethal on court, routed her higher-ranked Japanese opponent Nozomi Okuhara 21-19, 21-10 in a fast-paced 50-minute game to enter Friday’s women’s badminton final at the 2016 Rio Games….

Media captionFootage has been released purportedly showing four US swimmers at a petrol station in Rio US Olympic swimmer Jimmy Feigen has agreed to pay nearly $11,000 to a Brazilian charity over his involvement in a dispute about an armed robbery. He was one of four gold medallists, along with star Ryan Lochte, who hit the headlines after Mr Lochte said the group had been robbed in Rio. CCTV footage…

We’re just over two weeks removed from the deadline-day trade that sent Carlos Beltran from the Yankees to the Rangers. In the time since, he’s adjusted to his new surroundings, hitting .315/.351/.500 with two home runs. Beltran has taken a liking to his new haunt in other ways, too — like preferring the vibes in Texas to those in New York. Here’s what he told KESN-FM about the difference between…

Media playback is not supported on this device Bolt wins third 200m gold Usain Bolt won the men’s 200m to claim his second Rio 2016 gold, his eighth at an Olympics, and keep alive his hopes of an unprecedented ‘treble treble’. The Jamaican ran 19.78 seconds to come home ahead of Canada’s Andre de Grasse and France’s Christophe Lemaitre. Britain’s Adam Gemili clocked the same time as Lemaitre, but was…

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x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Sam Amick tells you five things to look for during Day 14 of the Games. USA TODAY Sports Kevin Durant is trying to win his second Olympic gold medal with Team USA.(Photo: Jason Getz, USA TODAY Sports) RIO DE JANEIRO – Kevin Durant had to ponder the question. Had he ever felt chills during an NBA game, the kind that made him feel…

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Argentina won its first ever field hockey gold medal after topping Belgium 4-2. Within the first three minutes of the match, Belgium’s Tanguy Cosyns got his team an early lead after tipping in a long pass to the circle. However, Argentina went on a three-goal scoring rampage to close out the first two quarters of play. Team captain Pedro Ibarra got the equalizer on a deceptive behind-the-back penalty corner play. Before…

In late August, when the sky becomes perceptibly darker at the start of night games, all true baseball fans begin to think about the approaching end of the season. This year, my annual regret is deepened by worry about the future of a sport that is hardly “just like life,” as some sentimentalists like to say. What could be further from the way we live now, in a culture of…

We’re just over two weeks removed from the deadline-day trade that sent Carlos Beltran from the Yankees to the Rangers. In the time since, he’s adjusted to his new surroundings, hitting .315/.351/.500 with two home runs. Beltran has taken a liking to his new haunt in other ways, too — like preferring the vibes in Texas to those in New York. Here’s what he told KESN-FM about the difference between…

x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Sam Amick tells you five things to look for during Day 14 of the Games. USA TODAY Sports Usain Bolt reacts as he wins gold in the men’s 200-meter final.(Photo: James Lang, USA TODAY Sports) RIO DE JANEIRO — Usain Bolt has admitted he hopes his remarkable Olympic career will put him down in history as one of the greatest athletes to have ever…

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A star athlete poised to win gold in the women’s 800-meter race at the Rio Olympics has sparked an ethics debate over gender and sex in competitive sports. “Semenya has been nearly unbeatable, prompting speculation that she had been suppressing her testosterone with medication.”—@SITimLayden @SInowe Caster Semenya, of South Africa, has her eyes on the final for the track and field event Saturday at 8:15 p.m. ET. Media reports say…

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