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Men's rugby ready for Rio after 92-year Olympic absence

By JOHN PYE
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Ben Ryan took his gold-medal favorite Fiji men's squad along to watch the women's rugby sevens quarterfinals, hoping their presence would inspire a...
Irish executive nabbed for scalping Olympic tickets

The Associated Press
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The Olympic Council of Ireland is investigating why tickets allocated to the organization were found in the possession of two men arrested by Rio d...
For 1 Brazilian, Olympics feel like his nation has arrived

By MAURICIO SAVARESE
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - "Go to bed," my grandmother implored. "It is late, and these Olympics are very far away." I was 6 years old, a boy in working-class Sao Paulo alrea...
Booing and bellowing, a different kind of tennis fan in Rio

By RACHEL COHEN
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Juan Martin del Potro bounced the ball, waiting to try to serve out his second-round match at the Olympic tennis tournament. Argentine fans sang fo...
World record holder Chen withdraws from weightlifting

By JENNA FRYER
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - World record holder Chen Lijun pulled out of the men's weightlifting 62-kilogram class because of leg cramps, which opened the class for Oscar Albe...
With Neymar struggling, Brazilian soccer fans turn to Marta

By TALES AZZONI
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - The frustration with Brazil's soccer team is so great that fans are jeering Neymar and wishing women's star Marta could come to the rescue. While...
US knocks off No. 3 Australia in women's field hockey

By CLIFF BRUNT
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Once again, the United States got off to a slow start. And again, the Americans regained their composure and knocked off a world power at the Olymp...
Missy Franklin's Rio debut is nothing like she planned

By BETH HARRIS
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Missy Franklin finally got in the pool at the Rio Olympics only to endure another disappointment in the most unsettling year of her career. The usu...
Kenya vows 'no mercy' for track manager expelled from Rio

By JOHN LEICESTER
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Once again, questions are swirling about Kenyan runners and doping, this time at the biggest event of all: the Olympics. Kenya said Sunday it would...
No riches, but respect for Zimbabwe soccer team at Olympics

By ENOCK MUCHINJO
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - BINDURA, Zimbabwe (AP) - Felistas Muzongondi used to be a house cleaner. She's now an office clerk for a sugar manufacturer, and also the captain of the Zimbabwe women's...

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