U.S. swimmers lied about robbery, should be held accountable : Brazil minister
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s Presidential Chief of Staff Eliseu Padilha said on Thursday that U.S. Olympic swimmers had lied to Brazilian police about a robbery at the Rio de Janeiro Games and should be held accountable.
Brazil police recommend charges against U.S. swimmers Lochte and Feigen : GloboNews
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian police have recommended that prosecutors bring charges against U.S. Olympic gold medalist swimmers Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen for falsely reporting a crime, GloboNews television reported on Thursday.
Boxing: Stevenson gifted a walkover to bantamweight final
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Highly-rated U.S. bantamweight Shakur Stevenson was given a walkover to an Olympic boxing final with Cuba’s Robeisy Ramirez on Thursday after Russian opponent Vladimir Nikitin withdrew due to injury.
Boxing: Cuba’s La Cruz gets his teeth into light-heavy gold
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Two years after being shot in the street, stylish Cuban Julio Cesar La Cruz beat Kazakhstan’s Adilbek Niyazymbetov to become his country’s first light-heavyweight Olympic boxing champion on Thursday.
Golf: Cabrera-Bello continues Spanish tradition in Greensboro
(Reuters) – Rafa Cabrera-Bello boosted his Ryder Cup hopes with a sizzling start at the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina on Thursday.
Brazil police say U.S. swimmers could ‘in theory’ be charged
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil police could “in theory” charge a group of U.S. Olympic swimmers with giving false testimony and vandalism over an incident at a gas station in Rio de Janeiro last weekend, the head of Rio’s civil police, Fernando Velo…
Brazil police accuse U.S. swimmers of vandalism, consider charges
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian police accused a group of U.S. Olympic swimmers on Thursday of vandalism during an incident at a Rio gas station last weekend, saying they were considering whether to recommend charges against any of them.
Golf: Pieters boosts Ryder Cup hopes with 67 at Czech Masters
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Thomas Pieters, who needs to win this week’s Czech Masters and the Made In Denmark event next week to have any hope of making Europe’s Ryder Cup team, got off to a good start in the first round on Thursday.
Athletics: Clement wins 400m hurdles, Culson left sobbing
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Kerron Clement of the United States dipped on the line to win the men’s Olympic 400 meters hurdles on Thursday after one of his leading rivals, Puerto Rico’s Javier Culson, was disqualified for a false start.
Brazil police pull U.S. swimmers from flight amid robbery probe
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian police stopped two U.S. Olympic swimmers from boarding a flight home on Wednesday to question them about how they and two team mates were robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro at the weekend, after a judge raised dou…
