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Media playback is not supported on this device French pole vaulter booed on podium Pole vault silver medallist Renaud Lavillenie was booed by the Rio crowd for a second time in 24 hours – with Olympics chief Thomas Bach calling his treatment “shocking”. The Frenchman, 29, was in tears as he was barracked on the podium on Tuesday. On Monday, he was booed by the partisan home crowd before his…

RIO DE JANEIRO — The beach volleyball venue on Copacabana beach is the biggest sports party in the world. You can see the waves crashing on the beach from the stands, but you can’t hear them, thanks to bumping speakers and the raucous, coordinated cheers the crowd does every time a significant volleyball event happens. Nobody wants to be the odd person out at the party, so we made…

Today, swimming has more gender mixing than ever, and most people associated with the sport embrace it. At many colleges (including my own, William and Mary), the men’s and women’s teams now compete at meets together, with the sexes alternating events. Mixed-gender relays—two men and two women—were added to the 2015 swimming world championships, and there’s talk about making them part of the Olympics. And you won’t find a sport…

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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Simone Biles tax bill for he Olympic victories could be over $40,000 She has flipped, tumbled and leapt her way into the hearts of millions over the course of the Olympic games. But when Simone Biles returns home she will be in for not just a major celebration but also a hefty tax bill. The 19-year-old has won five Olympic medals – four gold…

Team USA has not impressed anyone in Rio. As they enter quarterfinal play, this year’s group has a plus-117 point differential, which is more than 70 points behind the 2012 team’s mark. Australia bullied them for more than a half. They barely survived Serbia and France, and all this in a year that was considered down for the rest of the world. Even with many superstars absent due to rest,…

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Success inevitably leads to questions from disappointed rivals but, among the queries directed at Team GB’s cyclists after an Olympic Games where every member of the team won a medal, Australia’s Anna Meares has raised a valid point. “How do they lift so much when in so many events they have not even been in contention in the world championships?” The keirin bronze medallist clarified afterwards that she was not…

Astros second baseman Jose Altuve has long since ceased being merely a diminutive novelty act. He was always far more than that, of course, but now Altuve is rightly known as being plainly one of the best baseball players on the planet. This season, he may be on his way to the AL MVP award, as he’s presently leading the majors with an OPS+ of 173 while manning an up-the-middle…

A detailed shot of shorts worn by goalkeeper Hope Solo #1 of United States are seen before the game against Sweden on day seven of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on August 12, 2016 in Brazil. “I thought we played a courageous game,” declared Hope Solo, the USA women’s soccer goalie, reacting to a shocking upset. “I think we showed a lot of heart. We came back from a goal…

Media playback is not supported on this device French pole vaulter booed on podium Pole vault silver medallist Renaud Lavillenie was booed by the Rio crowd for a second time in 24 hours – with Olympics chief Thomas Bach calling his treatment “shocking”. The Frenchman, 29, was in tears as he was barracked on the podium on Tuesday. On Monday, he was booed by the partisan home crowd before his…

x Embed x Share A Brazilian judge cites discrepancies in the police report about the robbery. American Ryan Lochte won his first medal of the 2016 Olympics with the men’s 4×200 freestyle relay.(Photo: Peter Casey, USA TODAY Sports) RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian judge has ordered two U.S. swimmers not to leave the country, according to court documents obtained Wednesday. Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen were ordered to stay in Rio…

You might not be able to see all the tech Land Rover added to the Range Rover Sport, but when you need it, you’ll be happy it’s there. Also, please don’t actually try to flip it.

9.48am EDT09:48 Butchart, who has some of the whitest teeth I have ever seen, finishing in fifth to qualify automatically for the final. Great run in 33C heat from the 24-year-old Scot, who was the pacemaker in that heat and was only overcome by the front four in the home straight. The USA’s Paul Kipkemoi Chelimo finished first, Ethiopia’s Muktar Edris second, Ethiopia’s Dejen Gebremeskel third, Bahrain’s Birhanu Balew fourth,…

Rio de Janeiro It didn’t take long for the Brazilians to rewrite the norms of Olympic fandom. The list of Olympic participants targeted by Brazilian boos is long and varied: Russians, due to its doping scandal; Spaniards, as symbols of Latin American colonialism; a tennis ball boy who had butterfingers; favorites—like the poor Romanian women’s handball team—when they played the underdogs; and, of course, anyone from Brazil’s historic rival Argentina,…

There are more empty seats at the Rio Olympics than there would be at an IOC lecture on moral courage, given at the Etihad. It is traditional for any Olympic Games to be followed at a seemly distance by photo-stories detailing the slide into disuse of the various eye-wateringly expensive venues in the host city. In the case of Rio this seems to be happening concurrently, live on air alongside…

Listen, if we’re being honest, I don’t care about you or your team. I’m sure you’re all very nice, and your favorite players seem lovely, for the most part. But there’s just so much baseball being churned out by my team — about 20 hours a week, the same as a part-time job — that it’s hard to make the same kind of individual connections. On the other hand,…

ESPN’s Buster Olney is on vacation this week, but he’s still compiling roundups. View his latest roundup here . Baseball is the greatest game in the world. If you need proof, look no further than the fact that baseball, like no other sport, has an amazing capacity to spark genuine and even heated debate. Baseball fans and media like nothing more than to talk about what is good and bad…

9.48am EDT09:48 Butchart, who has some of the whitest teeth I have ever seen, finishing in fifth to qualify automatically for the final. Great run in 33C heat from the 24-year-old Scot, who was the pacemaker in that heat and was only overcome by the front four in the home straight. The USA’s Paul Kipkemoi Chelimo finished first, Ethiopia’s Muktar Edris second, Ethiopia’s Dejen Gebremeskel third, Bahrain’s Birhanu Balew fourth,…