After waiting for the finalist to compete in the 2016 RIO Olympics the final additions were made to the September 2016 magazine cover artwork. All six athletes on the cover with the look and feel of the RIO Olympics. These will make for some outstanding posters in the near future.…
Cheboksary (Russia) (AFP) – Pole vault legend Yelena Isinbayeva defiantly claimed all hope of competing at the Rio Olympics is not lost after posting a world leading mark in the Russian Championships on Tuesday. Russian track and field athletes are banned from the Games in August unless they can prove…
Ashley Bryant and John Lane, two of Great Britain’s Olympic hopefuls this summer, have been reunited with the missing poles they use in pole vault competitions as part of the decathlon. But is it too late? Bryant, especially, is a medal contender later this summer at the Rio Summer Olympics competing…
The United States Olympic Committee told U.S. sports federations that athletes and staff concerned for their health over the Zika virus should consider not going to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in August. The message was delivered in a conference call involving USOC officials and leaders of U.S. sport federations…
Jorgensen, 29, and True, 33, become the sixth and seventh members of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team, joining pentathlete Nathan Schrimsher, table tennis player Yue “Jennifer” Wu, and open water swimmers Jordan Wilimovsky, Sean Ryan and Haley Anderson, all of whom qualified last month. The World Olympic Qualification is a…
Pole vault world record holder Yelena Isinbaeva is confident of winning gold at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, her coach told R-Sport on Friday. Isinbayeva, 30, won the bronze medal at the London Games on Monday and told Russian media Friday that she wanted to compete at the next…
Carson Dingler is already planning where she hopes to be four years from today. No, it won’t be sitting in high school science class. Or shopping for shoes at the mall. She dreams of traveling to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the 2016 Summer Olympics. There is no need to…
