The brand new complex of residential towers are where nearly 11,000 athletes and some 6,000 coaches and other handlers will sleep, eat and train during the upcoming games, that will kickoff on Aug 5.
A Tokyo panel on Thursday urged changes to three venues for the 2020 Olympics in the face of ballooning costs but organizers say such adjustments may prove difficult to instigate in time for the Games.
Rome mayor Virginia Raggi on Wednesday announced the Italian capital was withdrawing its bid to host the 2024 Olympic games.
Fifteen of the 558 athletes in the US delegation at the Rio Olympics - or slightly less than 3 percent - had therapeutic-use exemptions in force during the games.
As the 2016 Paralympic Games come to an end in Rio, let's replay some of the most unforgettable moments of the 11-day event.
Iranian cyclist Sarafraz Bahman Golbarnezhad has died after crashing in the C4-5 event at the Paralympics.
At the Rio Paralympic Games on Monday, four participants with partial disabilities proved that, when it comes to running, they are in no way inferior to other athletes.
More than 4,400 athletes from 160 countries and regions will compete at the Rio Paralympic Games, which officially opened at the Maracana Stadium on Wednesday.
A creative director of the Rio Paralympics opening ceremony has promised a sensuous experience that strays from the idea that Para athletes are "superhuman".
A Brazilian court said on Saturday it has authorized the release of Ireland's Kevin James Mallon, a director of international sports hospitality company THG who was arrested on Aug 5 for the alleged illegal scalping of Olympic tickets.
Brazil's interim government said Tuesday it will spend public funds on the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, despite a court ruling banning the move until the event's organizing committee reveals its accounts.
Rio de Janeiro received 1.17 million tourists during the Olympic Games, including 410,000 foreigners, and zero cases of Zika was reported.
Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike arrives at Tokyo's Haneda airport with the Olympic flag on Aug 24, after visiting Rio de Janeiro to attend the Summer Games closing ceremony there.
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