American teenager Virginia Thrasher claimed the first Rio Olympics gold medal in the shooting on Saturday.

Our admiration for you is even greater because you managed this at a very difficult time in Brazilian history. We have always

The honour was for Brazil's former long

US teenager Virginia Thrasher claims the first Rio Olympics gold medal with her final shot in the shooting on Saturday.

Mercilessly cast as "greedy" and "missing" for failing to fire Brazil to victory in their Rio 2016 opener against South Africa, Neymar and his highly-touted teammates need a big response against Iraq on Sunday.

The Maracana stadium erupts in jeers as Brazil's unpopular interim president Michel Temer opens the Rio Olympics and the hostility spreads far beyond the sports venue.

A joyful sashay through Brazil's extraordinary musical heritage is infused with a social message and a warning over the dangers of climate change as Rio de Janeiro draws back the curtain of the 2016 Olympic Games with a highly charged opening ceremony.

The Rio Games launched with a flamboyant spectacle headlined by supermodel Gisele Bundchen as a doom-laden Olympic build-up gave way to an energetic party atmosphere at the fabled Maracana stadium on Friday.

Bangladeshi archer Shyamoly Roy finishes 53 rd out of 64 competitors in recurve bow's ranking round.

Brazil unfurls a vast canvas celebrating its rainforest and the creative energy of its wildly diverse population in welcoming the world on Friday to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, all to the pounding beat of samba, bossa nova and funk.

Brazil football legend Pele will not light the Olympic cauldron at Friday's opening ceremony in Rio

South Korea's Kim Woo-Jin makes the most of perfect shooting conditions to set a 72-arrow world record in the Olympic archery event.

Brazilians do love their football. And it seems they do love to hate Argentina, or at least Argentine football teams.

The carnival capital of Rio de Janeiro will host a glittering Olympics opening ceremony party at the iconic Maracana Stadium on

Getting your way around in Rio is an exhausting experience in itself. Here people hardly speak English, which makes your job

Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus has taken the Olympic Torch as it makes the epic journey across Rio de Janeiro to light the cauldron of the Rio Games 2016.

It would be easy for the US team of NBA stars to overlook China in Saturday's opening game of the Rio Olympics after routing the Asians twice in pre-Games exhibitions.

Brazil and superstar Neymar are booed off as their quest for a maiden Olympic football gold medal begins with a 0-0 draw against 10-man South Africa.

The football event of the Rio Olympics 2016 may have already kicked off, but the real deal starts in earnest on Friday when the

Michael Phelps, the most medalled Olympian of all time, questions on Wednesday whether he had ever swum in a 'clean' sport.