The Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) has taken the unusual step of hiring its own private security firm for next month's Olympic Games, according to media reports.
Brazil's police broke up on Thursday a gang of ticket touts reselling admissions to the Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil's Defence Minister, Raul Jungmann, assured on Friday that the South American country is "peaceful" but it will not hesitate to respond to any attack, especially during the Olympic Games 2016 in Rio.
Brazil's interim President Michel Temer has guaranteed Rio de Janeiro will stage a successful Olympic Games and assured international visitors that the city will welcome them "with open arms".
Brazil’s president is facing impeachment. The country’s economy is in sharp decline. Bodies of water that will be used for Olympic competitions are polluted, and global public health officials are trying to tamp down the Zika virus epidemic.
Rio de Janeiro's interim governor Francisco Dornelles admitted Monday that the Olympic Games could be a "big failure" if there are no appropriate measures taken in regards to security and transport during the Games.
The Rio 2016 organizing committee revealed the official slogan for the first Olympic and Paralympic Games in South America: "A New World" , meanwhile the Olympic medals were also unveiled on Tuesday, 52 days from the start of the Rio Olympic Games.
About the same time the Olympic committee and its guests were putting away their charts, papers and laptops, the cyclist Tejay van Garderen was announcing that he had withdrawn from consideration for a place on the United States team.
A new subway line, linking Rio de Janeiro's city centre, tourist neighbourhoods and beach areas to the main Olympic zone will start operating on Aug. 1, the state government of Rio de Janeiro confirmed on Thursday.
The 2012 London Games samples were retested and 23 new doping failures were reported by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday.
Unlike the football World Cup in Brazil two years ago, the Rio Olympics have mostly escaped controversy about venue delays.
Rio de Janeiro is "ready to deliver history" when it becomes the first South American country to host the Olympic Games in August, Rio 2016 president Carlos Nuzman said on Wednesday.
Brazilian volleyball legend Giovane Gavio was one of the protagonists at the start of the journey of the Olympic Flame that will be burning for the historic 2016 Rio Summer Olympics at the birthplace of the Games on Thursday.
The Brazilian government is highly concerned with low ticket sales ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, with only five months to go before the opening of the largest sporting event in the world, the country's interim Minister of Sports, Ricardo Leyser, admitted on Sunday.
The Japanese government on Tuesday approved a design by architect Kengo Kuma for the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games with the planned project also linking in construction behemoth Taisei Corp. whose bid to build the facility won.
Brazil's success in the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be shown not only in the stadiums but also above all in the country's organizational efficiency, said President Dilma Rousseff, during the launch of the Olympic Year of Tourism in Brasilia on Wednesday.
The Chinese women's volleyball team is on the road to a great rejuvenation after their emphatic fourth World Cup victory.
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