Russia stripped of 2008 relay gold due to positive retest
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Russia was ordered on Tuesday to return its gold medals from the 2008 Beijing Olympics 4x100m women’s relay after Yulia Chermoshanskaya tested positive for a banned substance in a re-analysis of her sample.
Sailing: New Zealand 49er men clinch gold; women’s medal-hunt tight
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – The New Zealand duo of skipper Peter Burling and crew Blair Tuke clinched gold in the men’s 49er two-person skiff class one day ahead of the final medal race, continuing their dominance of the event.
Gymnastics: U.S. duo give coach ideal sendoff with floor medals
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – U.S. team coordinator Marta Karolyi could not have ended her gymnastics coaching career on a better note as two of her students, Simone Biles and Aly Raisman, claimed gold and silver in Tuesday’s floor exercise.
Brazil fans ask: What now for women’s football?
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s Olympic women’s football team was showered with joyous attention until their heart-breaking semi-final elimination on Tuesday which brought forward a key question: Was the interest the start of something big or anoth…
Soccer: Sweden beat Brazil in shootout to reach final
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Sweden beat Brazil 4-3 in a penalty shootout after the sides were goalless following extra time on Tuesday to reach the final of the women’s football tournament at the Rio Olympics.
Gymnastics: Zonderland keeps going despite heart-stopping fall
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Four years after tasting Olympic victory, “Flying Dutchman” Epke Zonderland came crashing to earth on Tuesday when he lost his grip on the horizontal bar and tumbled flat on his face – yet somehow still managed to pick himsel…
Gymnastics: China misses gold for first time in more than 30 years
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – An “empty brain” contributed to China leaving Rio without any gymnastics gold medals, its worst showing since returning to the Games in 1984, after three competitors missed out on podium places on Tuesday.
Gymnastics: Hambuechen wins horizontal bar gold
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – It took him 12 years and four Olympics, but flamboyant German showman Fabian Hambuechen was finally leaping with joy after he soared past his rivals to strike gold with an electrifying routine on the horizontal bar on Tuesday…
Synchronised: Russian ‘mermaids’ swim their way to gold again
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Russian synchronised swimming stars Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina’s near-flawless routines have long had fans joking they are secretly mermaids or have gills.
Westwood doing his best to satisfy Ryder Cup captain Clarke
LONDON (Reuters) – Lee Westwood believes he has gone some way towards satisfying Darren Clarke after Europe’s Ryder Cup captain told his close friend at the start of the year to play consistently well in order to be selected.
