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French gymnast Samir Aït Saïd and Brazilian judoka Sarah Menezes had their Olympics cut short in gruesome fashion on Day 1 in Rio.

French gymnast Samir Aït Saïd and Brazilian judoka Sarah Menezes had their Olympics cut short in gruesome fashion on Day 1 in Rio.

Determined to see the end of Saturday's grueling 256.4-kilometre Olympic men's road race in Rio, Mike Woods finished 55th in a time of six hours 30 minutes 50 seconds while fellow Canadians Antoine Duchesne and Hugo Houle didn't cross the line.

Janine Beckie scored twice as Canada all but clinched a spot in the Olympic women's soccer quarter-finals Saturday with a convincing 3-1 victory over Zimbabwe that improved the Canadians' record to 2-0-0.

Canada clinched a spot in the Olympic women's soccer quarter-finals Saturday with a convincing 3-1 victory over Zimbabwe.

Janine Beckie scored twice as Canada clinched a spot in the Olympic women's soccer quarter-finals Saturday after a convincing 3-1 victory over Zimbabwe.

The Canadian women basketball team begins their Olympic campaign with emphatic 22-point win over eighth-ranked China.

The Toronto Blue Jays traded ambidextrous relief pitcher Pat Venditte to the Seattle Mariners on Saturday for a player to be named later.

The fallout from the Russian doping scandal is causing havoc at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium as the start list was altered at the last minute to add a Russian swimmer.

A bomb squad is investigating after an apparent blast shook the area near the finish line of the men's cycling road race at the Rio Olympics on Saturday.

Canadian swim star Ryan Cochrane finished 11th in the men's 400-metre freestyle qualifying at the Rio Olympics on Saturday, meaning he'll miss the final for a second consecutive Olympics.

Keeping her nerve on sport's biggest stage, Thrasher on Saturday earned the first gold medal of the Rio Olympics, outlasting two-time gold medallist Du Li to capture the women's 10-meter air rifle title.

Through two matches, Canada's women's rugby sevens team has yet to surrender a point at the Olympics, setting up a decisive contest with Great Britain Sunday to determine first place in Pool C.

Through two matches, Canada's women's rugby sevens team has yet to surrender a point at the Olympics, setting up a decisive contest with Great Britain Sunday to determine first place in Pool C.

Canada's women's rugby sevens team came out firing on all cylinders and emerged victorious over Japan in their first Olympic match in Rio de Janeiro.

Canada's Josh Binstock and Sam Schachter started their Rio Olympic beach volleyball tournament with a straight-sets loss to Brazil's Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar Schmidt in preliminary play on Saturday.

Last night’s Rio 2016 opening ceremony was a big success with plenty of exciting moments. If you missed out on any of the action or just want to relive some of the action, here are the top three moments that created the most buzz on social media.

At every Olympic Games an athlete delivers the most dominant performance, and during the first half of Rio 2016 there's a good chance it'll be American swimmer Katie Ledecky.

Canada's Carling Zeeman has advanced to the quarter-finals in the women's single sculls as the Olympic rowing competition kicked off in windy conditions Saturday.

Scott Tupper might have been an ice hockey player, or no athlete at all, had he not met one particular friend early in life.

Brazil has raised the curtain on its Olympics hoping to make peace with the world. As CBC Sports host Scott Russell writes, that sick feeling of fretting and wondering whether things will be OK has to go away now because there's no turning back.

Let's get right into it, shall we? A lot is happening for Team Canada on Saturday at the Rio Games.

The opening ceremony is a once-in-a-lifetime event, but not every athlete goes. Here's why.

Devon Travis hit his second homer of the game in the ninth inning to lift the Toronto Blue Jays over the Kansas City Royals 4-3 on Friday night.

Russian athletes received a mix reaction upon entering the Maracana Stadium during the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

The 2016 Summer Olympics kick off Friday in Rio de Janeiro and like any major sporting event, there are plenty of big numbers involved.

Watch the opening ceremony for the 2016 Olympics live on CBC from the Maracana​ Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.

Watch the opening ceremony for the 2016 Olympics live beginning at 7 p.m. ET on CBC from the Maracana​ Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.

Filmmaker and former Hockey Night in Canada montage artist Tim Thompson sits down for a Q & A to talk about his work for CBC Sports on the Olympic Games.

Some competitions are already underway but the Summer Games officially begin with the opening ceremony, held at Maracana Stadium on Friday night, where all eyes will be on the thousands of athletes in the parade of nations, and on supermodel Gisele Bundchen who is expected to take part.