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Exploring the Baja peninsula, Mexico With water temperatures of 27C, the Sea of Cortez is so warm that, as SwimTrek puts it, “you’ll feel like you’re swimming in the bath”. Expect to feel comfortable out of the water too, spending a week sleeping in glamping-style bell tents with solar-heated showers, and enjoying fresh local food and cocktails rustled up by your team chef. Each day the swim covers 6km, passing…

Moreso than any Olympics in modern history, the lead-up to the Summer Games in Rio has yielded one disaster headline after another: doping scandals, Zika virus alerts, terrorism fears, unfinished venues, fecal matter-filled waters, local violence, and even a dead jaguar. But when NBC had its Olympics panel at the Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, executive producer Jim Bell, host Bob Costas, and correspondent Mary…

World road race champion Armitstead won an Olympic silver at London 2012 and Commonwealth gold in 2014 Lizzie Armitstead says she was “very naive” for not challenging the first of three missed drugs tests until her Olympic place was in jeopardy. The British world road cycling champion was suspended on 11 July pending disciplinary action but appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas). She successfully argued the first…

If all the pre-Olympic hype has you wishing you could jump on a plane to Rio, there’s still time to cobble together a trip that won’t break the bank. We know, because we tried it. While travel to an event as major as the Olympics can be tricky, if you’re flexible you can land a great deal—especially given all the concerns about the Zika virus and Rio’s readiness to host…

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Photo via AP The golf tournament at the Rio Olympics starts next Thursday. This is the first time golf has been at the Olympics since 1904, but stars like Jason Day, Jordan Spieth, and Dustin Johnson will not be there. However, a bunch of capybaras, sloths, and other critters (like mini crocodiles) will. The course is located in the Barra da Tijuca neighborhood in western Rio, a newer neighborhood where…

The 2016 Olympics tips off in Rio on Friday, and one of the prime events for the United States is the basketball portion of the games. USA Basketball has dominated nearly every year they’ve been in it, especially since allowing professional players to take part in 1992. It’s been legitimately shocking when the U.S. is challenged, let alone when they completely blew the 2004 Olympics and went home with the…

RELATED: Results | Standings | Chase GridSHOP: Buescher gear LONG POND, Pa. — Chris Buescher sat in his car on pit road, dreaming of the possibilities. NASCAR had just red-flagged Monday’s rain-delayed Pennsylvania 400 when a heavy fog settled over Pocono Raceway after 138 of a scheduled 160 laps, and Buescher was the unlikely race leader. “I’m thinking of every kind of rain dance I can,” Buescher said on his radio….

The Summer Olympic Games serve as a grand podium for the belief that a nation’s best athletes can bolster its sense of pride and honor for another four years—setting the stage for real-world superheroes who defy the odds and challenge the capabilities of the human body. It’s a tradition the globe is unlikely to kick. But 80 years ago, when the Summer Olympics opened on Aug. 1, 1936, in Berlin,…

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The U.S. has won nearly a third of all Olympic swimming medals ever awarded and look to add to their 500-plus medals at the 2016 Rio Games. Team USA swimmers have dominated a number of events – their gold-medal streaks date back to the ’90s or even earlier in some cases. The U.S. swimmers hope to continue this legacy, but other countries are in the hunt to disrupt the U.S….

This week, Rio will make way for more than 10,000 athletes and half a million visitors. But not everyone gets to participate in the glitz and glamour of the Olympics when it arrives in their city. Brazil’s poorest have reportedly been subject to widespread human-rights abuses. A report compiled by academics and nongovernmental organizations labelled the event the “Exclusion Games.” It claims that 4,120 families have lost their homes and…

When I asked Mauro how he wound up winning the contract to build the Olympic golf course, he said Paes had approached him. He had known the mayor—a “hard worker”—since his term as Barra’s subprefeito in the 1990s. He warmed to Paes’s idea, he claimed, because of his vision of a golf course open to the public, where underprivileged youngsters could learn the sport. “Anything I can do for my…

Photo: YASUYOSHI CHIBA One week before the 2016 Summer Olympics even begin, everyone paying attention seems to be girding themselves for a disaster. Despite promises from officials that Rio de Janeiro would undergo dramatic environmental cleanup ahead of the games, waterways where some athletes will be performing are still teeming with pollution — prompting one local doctor to tell the New York Times that “foreign athletes will literally be swimming…

x Embed x Share Comcast has created new technology that will allow its users to watch the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro wherever and whenever. The 2016 U.S. Women’s Olympic team pose for a photo after the team trials at SAP Center: front: Laurie Hernandez, MyKayla Skinner, Simone Biles, Ragan Smith; back: Ashton Locklear, Aly Raisman, Madison Kocian,Gabby Douglas.(Photo: Robert Hanashiro-USA TODAY Sports) Quick, name a superstar female…

MARNE – Carson Hocevar stood in Victory Lane after winning the July 16 Super Late Model feature at Berlin Raceway, and he explained that his goal is to someday race in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The 13-year old Portage youth told the crowd Saturday night that his goal hasn’t changed a bit, even though NASCAR ruled last week that he is too young to race at sanctioned tracks like…

x Embed x Share A look back at some of the different uniforms Team USA has worn at the Olympic Opening Ceremonies of the past several decades. USA TODAY Sports Green Britain’s modern pentathlon team, from left to right: Jan Bartu, Modern Pentathlon Performance director, Mark England, Team GBs Chef de Mission, Kate French, James Cooke, Joe Choong, Samantha Murray and Dominic Mahony.(Photo: Warren Little, Getty Images) RIO DE JANEIRO…