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Daily Mail
PIERS MORGAN: Team USA's Olympics 2016 team is full of drug cheats just like Russia's
Daily Mail
As Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova won the women's 100m breaststroke semi-final, she raised a single finger in the victorious 'No1' sign. A gesture that prompted many in the crowd to loudly boo. Why? Well, because Efimova is a drugs cheat who was ...
Olympics Cold War: Anti-Doping Fever Grips RioNBCNews.com
Rio 2016 Olympics: Yulia Efimova and the 'fog of suspicion'BBC Sport
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Quartz
The Olympics of sport are also the Olympics of sex
Quartz
One record seems almost guaranteed to be broken at each Olympic Games—the number of condoms supplied to athletes in the Olympic village. At Rio 2016, the count stands at 450,000, with 175,000 sachets of lubricant for good measure—the largest ...
What Rio Should Have Learned From Atlanta's 1996 Summer OlympicsFortune
Why are fewer Americans watching the Olympics this year?Christian Science Monitorall 433 news artic

BBC Sport
Rio Olympics 2016: Adam Peaty wins GB's first medal with swimming gold
BBC Sport
Great Britain won their first medal of Rio 2016 as Adam Peaty took gold in the men's 100m breaststroke with a world record. The 21-year-old from Uttoxeter broke his own world record by winning in 57.13 seconds, well clear of the field. Peaty is the ...
Rio Olympics 2016: Adam Peaty wins swimming gold, plus day two round-upBBC Sport
Swimming at the Rio Olympics 2016: Adam Peaty wins 100m breastroke gold an

New York Times
Rio Olympics Today: Djokovic and Williams Sisters Knocked Out
New York Times
In the first big surprises of the Olympic tennis tournament, Novak Djokovic, the world's dominant tennis player, and the doubles team of Venus and Serena Williams were upset in the first round. Djokovic had made the Olympic gold medal in singles one of ...
Rio Olympics 2016: Kosovo's Majlinda Kelmendi wins country's first Olympic medalBBC Sportall 48 news articles »

ATP World Tour
Del Potro Shocks Djokovic In Rio
ATP World Tour
Argentine Juan Martin del Potro completed the upset of the Rio Olympics so far by downing top seed Novak Djokovic 7-6(4), 7-6(2) in the first round on Sunday. Del Potro, who was No. 4 in the Emirates ATP Rankings in 2010, had also ended Djokovic's ...
Juan Martin Del Potro knocks Novak Djokovic out of Rio Olympics after being trapped in liftThe Sydney Morning Herald
2016 Olympics: No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic bounced in first round of

NEWS.com.au
'Why is Sunrise on?' Viewers scathing of Olympics coverage, app
NEWS.com.au
IT WAS Sunrise that sent them over the edge. Bashing Australia's Olympic TV coverage is an unofficial Olympic sport, and Channel 7 copped a pasting today as the network opted to air Sunrise — albeit “Sunrise in Rio” — on its main channel as live ...
Channel Seven slammed over 'woeful' Olympics streamingThe Sydney Morning Heraldall 12 news articles »

CBS sports.com (blog)
Rio Olympics 2016: Team USA's biggest threat just went down in the opening game
CBS sports.com (blog)
In a stunning opening game at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Croatia pulled off the Group B upset by taking down Spain 72-70 on Sunday. We've gone into the last three Olympics (2008 in Beijing, 2012 in London, 2016 in Rio) thinking the same thing about men's ...
Croatia shocks Spain in opening game winNBC Olympicsall 44 news articles »

New York Times
Rio Olympics Today: Williams Sisters Knocked Out in Doubles
New York Times
In the first big surprise of the Olympic tennis tournament, Venus and Serena Williams were upset, 6-3, 6-4, in doubles by the Czech team of Barbora Strycova and Lucie Safarova. The defeat, which came in the first round, was the Williams sisters' first ...
2016 Rio Olympics: Venus and Serena Williams stunned in first round matchCBSSports.com
Rio Olympics 2016: Serena & Venus Williams lose in doublesBBC

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2016 Rio Olympics: Venus and Serena Williams stunned in first round match
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serenavenus.jpg Serena and Venus Williams suffered the first loss of their Olympics doubles career Sunday. USATSI. In one of the most shocking results of the 2016 Olympics to date, defending gold medalists Venus and Serena Williams lost in the first ...
Rio Olympics 2016: Serena & Venus Williams lose in doublesBBC Sport
Venus, Serena Williams upset in doubles first round at Rio OlympicsUSA

Chicago Tribune
Dutch cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten fractures spine during crash at Olympics
Chicago Tribune
Netherlands' Annemiek van Vleuten leads during the women's road race at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016. Netherlands' Annemiek van Vleuten leads during the women's road race at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, Aug.
Rio Olympics 2016: Lizzie Armitstead fifth as Anna van der Breggen winsBBC News
Rio Olympics 2016: Annemiek Van Vleuten's sickening crash puts L

BBC Sport
Rio Olympics 2016: Adam Peaty seeks swimming gold, plus day two round-up
BBC Sport
Swimmer Adam Peaty goes for gold on day two of the Olympics with Britain hoping for its first medal of the Rio Games. Peaty, 21, is in the 100m breaststroke final at 02:53 BST on Monday as he bids to become the first man to win a GB gold in the pool ...
Olympics: Adam Peaty breaks a world record and Team GB shock Australia in the hockey - What you missed last night ...Telegraph.co.uk
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New York Times
Expulsions of Protesters at Rio Olympics Draw Rebukes
New York Times
A protester was removed by security force officers during an archery match Saturday. Credit Diego Azubel/European Pressphoto Agency. RIO DE JANEIRO — The expulsions of ticket holders from Olympic sites after they protested Michel Temer, Brazil's ...
Brazilian protesters censored at OlympicsWashington Postall 20 news articles »

New York Times
Expulsion of Protesters at Rio Olympics Draws Rebukes
New York Times
A protester was removed by security force officers during an archery match Saturday. Credit Diego Azubel/European Pressphoto Agency. RIO DE JANEIRO — The expulsion of ticket holders from Olympic venues who are protesting against Michel Temer, ...
Late workers, long queues, no food: Day two of Rio Olympics' chaotic startThe Sydney Morning Herald
Brazilian protesters censored at OlympicsWashington Post

Telegraph.co.uk
Rio Olympics 2016: Great Britain's women's rugby sevens team cruise past Canada and Fiji in hunt for Olympic glory
Telegraph.co.uk
The easy part done and dusted, Britain's women's rugby sevens team wake this morning knowing they are less than half an hour away from an historic Olympic gold medal. In reality, it is little more than they expected. A cumulative total of 110 points ...
Rugby Sevens Hopes for Boost From OlympicsVoice of America
Rio 2016 Olympics: The magnificent Rugb

Los Angeles Times
Russia's Yulia Efimova, caught up in doping scandal, booed in Olympics debut
Los Angeles Times
Yulia Efimova prepares for a head in the women's 100-meter breaststroke on Sunday. (Michael Kappeler / EPA). An unfamiliar sound echoed through the Olympic Aquatics Stadium on Sunday. Boos greeted Russia's Yulia Efimova during her preliminary heat ...
2016 Rio Olympics: Venus and Serena Williams stunned in first round matchCBSSports.com
Rio Olympics 2016: Serena & Venus Will

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Rio Olympics: Team USA men's basketball vs. Venezuela start time, TV, stream
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The first game for USA Basketball went as expected when Team USA routed China 119-62 to open up their group play on Saturday. The 57-point win was an improvement on the two exhibitions for the U.S. against China within the last few weeks when they ...
Kevin Durant leads as USA blows out China in Olympics openerUSA TODAY
Olympics 2016: Day 1 RecapTeenVogue.com
Olympics 2016: What Was You

NBC Olympics
Simone Biles, Aly Raisman qualify for all-around final
NBC Olympics
The U.S. women did what was expected of them in the all-around final, hitting all 16 routines with ease, making no major mistakes and making it look fun. At the end of their subdivision, they had earned the highest team qualifying score, 185.238, by far.
2016 Rio Olympics: Simone Biles, Aly Raisman reach gymnastics all-around finalCBSSports.com
Rio 2016: 5 things to watch Sunday at the OlympicsUSA TODAY
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BBC Sport
Rio Olympics 2016: Great Britain women beat Fiji to reach rugby sevens semis
BBC Sport
Great Britain women will face New Zealand in the semi-finals of the Olympic rugby sevens after beating Fiji 26-7 in the last eight at Rio 2016. GB's Abbie Brown opened the scoring after just 15 seconds before Fiji's Litia Naiqato finished off a ...
Rugby Sevens Hopes for Boost From OlympicsVoice of America
Rio 2016 Olympics: The magnificent Rugby sevensThe Indian Express
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