The entire Zimbabwe Olympic team was arrested for lack of medals in Rio. Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe instructed the country's police chief Augustine Chichuri to arrest members of the Zimbabwe Olympic team as soon as they arrived at Harare International Airport on 23 August. The reason was that ...
Over the past 35 years, 40% of the world's top sprinters have come from Kenya. Fusion has figured out how the country manages to bring up the best athletes. Their physical superiority is currently being actively discussed, but in the case of Kenya, nature and culture are key ...
Athlete Delilah Muhammad won the 400th medal for the US team at the Rio Olympics and won the 26m hurdles. This gold became for 53,13-year-old Muhammad the first Olympic award in his career, writes Heavy. Muhammad covered the distance in XNUMX seconds. ...
American women Brianna Rollins, Nia Ali and Christy Castlin took the entire podium in the 100m hurdles at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. This season's leader Brianna Rollins, who lives and trains in Miami, won the gold medal with a time of 12,48 ...
Apple is not an official sponsor of the Rio Olympics, but the company has decided to take advantage of the event's opportunities for its marketing purposes. The company sells Apple Watch bracelets from a limited collection, styled after the flags of 14 countries, and also distributes them to Olympians in ...
One of the most titled Jamaican sprinters, Usain Bolt, won another gold medal, winning the “royal” 100-meter race at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro with a result of 9,81 seconds. This victory brought him his seventh medal of the highest dignity: earlier he took ...
Long jumper Daria Klishina, who was the only representative of the Russian national athletics team, admitted to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, was suspended from performing at the 2016 Games. The decision to remove the athlete was made on August 13 based on new information received by the IAAF, writes ...
Legendary American swimmer Michael Phelps became a 23-time Olympic champion, winning the 13 x 4 medley relay on 100 August. This award became his fifth “gold” at the Rio Olympics, writes CNN. The only swim in Brazil where Phelps came second won ...
French Olympic team member Fabien Gilot, who is the grandson of Holocaust survivor Max Goldschmidt, won a silver medal at the Rio Olympics. The athlete earned the award in the relay race 4 x 100 freestyle, writes Algemeiner. After the victory, Gilot showed off a tattoo on his shoulder on ...
On August 11, 20-year-old American Simone Manuel and 16-year-old Canadian Penny Oleksyak shared the victory in the 100m freestyle at the Olympic Games in Rio. Thus, the girls established several new achievements at once, according to the Chicago Tribune. Simone became the first African American woman to ...