More than half of Rio's Olympic venues are built, including state-of-the-art facilities constructed for the 2007 Pan and Parapan American Games: the magnificent Joao Havelange Stadium (the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Maracanã Stadium, which held the opening and closing ceremonies and several of the Rio Olympics' biggest events, is reportedly abandoned and plagued by looters.

Organizer's blame the Olympic Park's troubles ... On Twitter More from Sports Maracanã Stadium, which held the opening and closing ceremonies and several of the Rio Olympics' biggest events ...

In the last days of Paes’ mandate the Brazilian sports ministry took over administration of the Barra Olympic Park. Initially Rio had hoped for a private contractor to assume control of stadium ...

The Olympic flag was carried in by six Brazilian ... and with a colorful Carnival-esque party crammed inside a soccer stadium, all of Rio seemed to shake. Athletes from the United States and ...

Running the Olympic Park would be the second attempt ... consortium that administers the concessions at the Maracanã stadium. Rio’s biggest football club Flamengo opposed the move, saying ...

The Mayor of Rio, Eduardo Paes, and the Mayor of Niterói, Rodrigo Neves, presented the logo at the Isabel Salgado Olympic Educational Gymnasium, located in the Olympic Park. "We launched the logo ...

2016 Rio: 100-meter hurdles (United States) The 2016 Olympic Games run from Aug. 5 through Aug. 21 in Rio de Janeiro. Throughout, we will be chronicling the latest news and more from our reporters ...