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Let’s get this out of the way, Olympics deniers: If you watch television at all, you’ve probably watched the Games. They’re simply a straight-up TV phenomenon. The Olympics still hold the record for most-watched global television event of all time—70 percent of the world watched at least some portion of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But chances are, the way you’re watching the 2016 Rio Games is markedly different from the…

Schedule and results from Saturday’s Rio Olympics competition. All times Pacific. Badminton Men’s singles gold medal match Chen Long, China, d. Lee Chong Wei, Malaysia, 2-0 Men’s singles bronze medal match Viktor Axelsen, Denmark, d. Lin Dan, China, 2-1 Basketball (Women) Bronze medal game Serbia 70, France 63 Gold medal game 11:30 a.m.–United States vs. Spain Boxing Women’s flyweight gold medal match Nicola Adams, Great Britain, d. Sarah Ourahmoune, France, 3-0 Men’s bantamweight gold medal match Robeisy Ramirez Carrazana, Cuba, d. Shakur Stevenson, United States,…

x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Nate Scott breaks down probable highlights in the Rio Games on Aug. 20. USA TODAY Sports Great Britain defender Hollie Webb (20) celebrates with teammates after scoring the game winning goal in a shoot out past Netherlands goalkeeper Joyce Sombroek during the gold medal match in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games at Olympic Hockey Centre.(Photo: Geoff Burke, USA TODAY Sports) RIO DE…

Day 15, another Saturday – Super Saturday? Satiating Saturday? – and the biggest gold rush of the Games so far, with a full 30 on offer today. Follow them all here, if only to test the live blog team as we try not to miss any. Here’s our recap of day 14, when half of Britain remembered how exciting hockey can be (the other half knew already) and the greatest…

Media playback is not supported on this device Bolt wins ninth Olympic gold medal Usain Bolt ended his Olympic career by claiming an unprecedented ‘triple triple’ and his ninth gold as Jamaica won the 4x100m relay final in Rio. Bolt, 29, had won the 100m and 200m in Rio and is the only man to win all three sprint events at three Games. He combined with Asafa Powell, Yohan Blake…

There is a new gold medalist in women’s field hockey. Great Britain claimed the gold medal after defeating the Netherlands 2-0 in a historic shootout win. With time winding down and the pressure increasing, it was anybody’s game with the score tied at three all. Great Britain’s Nicola White scored the game-tying goal on a rebound off of a penalty corner that would ultimately send the two teams into a shootout….

It takes a city nearly a decade to plan for the Olympics, from the invitation to declare interest by the International Olympic Committee to the selection to the opening ceremony seven years later. Previous hosts used the Games to bulk up infrastructure (stadiums, housing, transportation) in a bid to attract global investment. Pledges were made to repurpose existing structures or tear down and reuse what would be built, as Rio…

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Brazil is one match away from winning its first Olympic soccer gold medal. Neymar and company will take on Germany in the gold medal match at the Maracanã Stadium. This is one of the most highly anticipated events at the Olympics for Brazilian fans as one of the proudest soccer nations in the world looks to win Olympic gold on home soil. The Maracanã will undoubtedly be packed to capacity…

For the fourth Olympics in a row, the United States put an end to Spain’s gold medal hopes. With an 82-76 win, the U.S. sent Spain to the bronze medal game and secured an opportunity to play for its third straight gold medal. Without a big performance from any of their stars, DeAndre Jordan led the United States to a stout defensive performance that proved to be the difference in…

Back in June, Steve Burke described what he called his Olympics “nightmare.” “We wake up someday and the ratings are down 20 percent,” the chief executive officer of NBCUniversal said at a conference. “If that happens, my prediction would be that millennials had been in a Facebook bubble or a Snapchat bubble and the Olympics have come, and they didn’t know it.” He has escaped that with the Rio games…

BEIJING—The 2016 Olympic Games haven’t been kind to China, and as the country’s medal tally falters, introspection is falling upon officials and media used to touting sports prowess as a symbol of national strength. This year’s medal haul will leave Beijing with its smallest hoard of Olympic gold in two decades. For China, these Summer Games have piled defeat upon defeat in sports it once ruled, like gymnastics and badminton,…

U.S Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte has apologized for his behavior surrounding a late-night incident at a Rio de Janeiro gas station, saying he should have been more “careful and candid” about how he described what happened. Lochte said in a lengthy post on Instagram Friday that he was apologizing for his role in taking the focus away from other Olympic athletes. “This was a situation that could and should have…

And when synchronized swimming made its Olympic debut in the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, it was the Americans Tracie Ruiz and Candy Costie who won the gold for the duet, the only synchro event that first year. In the Atlanta Games of 1996, the U.S. again made history, winning the first gold medal for the newly inaugurated team event (the duet event was taken off the program in…

RIO DE JANEIRO — In March, Richson Simeon ran the first race of his track career. He had to learn pretty quickly — in five months, he’d be racing in the same event as Usain Bolt. The 18-year-old from Sacramento had been tapped to be the lone male track athlete representing the Marshall Islands, his parents’ homeland, a tiny group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. In Rio, he…

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…

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…

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…