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There will be Indian food on the Rio Olympics menu, says the Sports Ministry
The Sports Ministry today said that some athletes had requested for Indian food in the Games villag…
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An Olympic racewalker proposed to his boyfriend in Rio and it was heartwarming
Tom Bosworth - an Olympic racewalker for Great Britain who finished sixth in the 20-kilometer race …
Ian Phillips
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The Rio Olympics are $1.6 Billion over budget
Brazil is currently in a deep recession and the governor of Rio de Janeiro recently declared a stat…
Morgan J. Wolf
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Traffic is emerging as another problem in Rio, and some Olympics organizers reportedly regret giving the city the games
As WSJ notes, Rio has tried to prepare for the issue, with $1 billion in new roads and tunnels and …
Scott Davis
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When they aren't competing, Olympians are all over Tinder in Rio
"Many of the athletes prefer to meet other athletes on Tinder and other dating apps because that's …
Emmett Knowlton
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3 Olympian medal winners won the exact same medals in back-to-back Olympics for the first time in history
Ryan Crouser, Joe Kovacs and Tom Walsh took home the same medals for shot put in the Tokyo 2020 Oly…
Kelly McLaughlin
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22-year-old Dipa Karmakar scripts history yet again; becomes 1st Indian woman gymnast ever to qualify for Olympics
Moreover, she will also be an Indian gymnast qualifying for the quadrennial extravaganza after 52 l…
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The Rio Olympics were a financial disaster and it keeps getting worse
Now, however, Rio faces a major problem that most host cities face - what to do with the venues. Ac…
Scott Davis
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Women in Rio for the Olympics are 10 times more likely to be raped than get Zika, according to one report
"Although the risk of Zika infection during the time of the Olympic games is extremely low, we thin…
Lisa Ryan
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'Today' anchor says she won't cover the Rio Olympics because of health concerns
NBCUniversal, which will air the Olympics on its networks, has made it clear to their employees tha…
Jason Guerrasio
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Simone Biles was told she just became famous - and her reaction is priceless
Biles is the first woman to ever win three back-to-back World Gymnastics Championships. She pu…
Ian Phillips
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The Rio Olympics will be cheap compared to London and Sochi
A study by Bent Flyvbjerg, Allison Stewart, Alexander Budzier for the Saïd Business School at the U…
Cork Gaines
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15 of the most heartwarming pictures from the Rio Olympics
And so, the Rio Olympics have been full of some truly heartwarming moments, of athletes helping eac…
Lisa Ryan
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Nearly half of the sewage entering the 2016 Rio Olympics waterways will not be treated during events
While that number may be lower now, it is almost certainly still well-above a level that would be a…
Cork Gaines
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Olympic athletes are upset that there's no Pokemon Go in Rio
The hit smartphone game is now available in 30 countries, but not in Brazil, where the Olympics beg…
Caroline Praderio
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NBC's Rio Olympics headquarters is a 75,000 square foot windowless bunker
NBC said there were a lot of close calls this year. Two-thirds of the power went out in Olympic par…
Liana B. Baker
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Meet the 6 Stanford athletes who have already won 17 Olympic medals in Rio
This month, 29 current, former, and incoming Stanford students are competing in Rio for Team USA - …
Tanza Loudenback
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'You are defenseless': Less than 2 months before the Olympics, Rio risks leaving tourists and athletes stranded
The perilous conditions of Rio state's finances has added to worries about the city's ability to su…
Christopher Woody
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68 Russian track and field athletes won't be able to compete in the Rio Olympics
"Of course, we are anxious, and as the Games approach we feel more and more anxious. We have no dou…
Barbara Tasch
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What Brazil's $10 billion Olympic venues look like one year before the games
The country spent $10.2 billion building and renovating 31 venues for the Olympics, Globo reports, …