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The Latest: Cuba's surprise beach volleyball run ends

The Associated Press
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The Latest on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local): 1:25 p.m. Viacheslav Krasilnikov and Konstantin Semenov of Russia beat ...
German Olympic coach dies following car accident in Rio

By ROB HARRIS
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A canoe slalom coach from Germany died Monday after sustaining head injuries last week in a car crash in Rio de Janeiro, the country's Olympic team...
Sharon van Rouwendaal romps to open water win at Copacabana

By PAUL NEWBERRY
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The sewage-filled waters off Copacabana weren't much of an issue for the open water swimmers. "It tastes like ocean," American Haley Anderson said ...
IAAF explores tightening rules on athletes changing nations

By ROB HARRIS
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The IAAF is exploring tightening the rules that allow athletes to switch the country they represent in track and field. Sebastian Coe's IAAF leader...
Jamaican Campbell-Brown bows out in 1st round of 200 in Rio

By PAT GRAHAM
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Highly decorated Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown will see a 200-meter Olympic final from a peculiar spot - the sideline. The two-time Oly...
Big shot: Brazil's Schmidt changed Olympic basketball

By TOM WITHERS
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - That's him, the man who changed international basketball. He's the one who single-handedly beat the United States on its own soil nearly 30 years a...
Dutch down Argentina to keep field hockey 3-peat alive

By FOSTER NIUMATA
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The Netherlands survived its toughest test yet in Olympic women's field hockey when it edged No. 2-ranked Argentina 3-2 on Monday to push its gold ...
IOC steps up security to prevent Sochi-style manipulation

By STEPHEN WILSON
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - From a battery of surveillance cameras to extra security guards, Olympic officials have taken a series of measures inside Rio's doping lab to preve...
Olympic-goers get an eyeful of Rio's beauty-consumed culture

By PETER PRENGAMAN
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Each morning, 75-year-old Jose Rebamar works his biceps, triceps and quadriceps with stone weights at an outside gym that looks out on Rio de Janei...
Russia's Klishina wins appeal, can compete at Rio Olympics

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The lone Russian track and field athlete at the Olympics has won her appeal to compete at the Rio de Janeiro Games. The Court of Arbitration for Sp...

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