Pele has been invited to light the Olympic pyre for the Rio Games on Friday but the Brazilian soccer great is checking with his sponsors.

A sharp increase in police killings has cast "a shadow of death" over Rio de Janeiro as it prepares to host the Olympic Games, Amnesty International claim in a report.

For as long as athletes have been battling for gold medals, they have been taking fortifying tonics, some stomach-churning, others downright dangerous with little concern for their health.

World number 11 and former Australian Open runner-up Dominika Cibulkova joins the Olympic Games tennis tournament's growing list of absentees.

World number four Stan Wawrinka withdraws from the Rio Olympics with a back injury on Tuesday.

Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams will display their Grand Slam talents in Rio, but with serious questions being asked over tennis's place in the Olympics after a host of high-profile pull-outs.

India's Narsingh Yadav is exonerated of doping charges on Monday after an Indian anti-doping disciplinary panel rules in his favour.

Team shirts and a laptop computer belonging to a cycling official have been stolen from the Australian building in the athletes' village at the Rio Olympics.

The second part of the Bangladesh Olympic contingent featuring two swimmers, two sprinters and as many officials are scheduled to fly out today morning for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to take part in the upcoming Olympic Games without the coaches.

A three-member International Olympic Committee (IOC) panel will have the final say on which Russian athletes can compete at the Rio Games, reviewing all decisions taken by the international federations, the IOC said on Saturday.

Russia's sports minister says that the national team to compete in the Rio Olympics starting next week so far has 266 competitors.

Argentina's Olympic football team complains that cash and electronics are stolen from players' hotel rooms while they were out.

The Australian team says they evacuated their building at the Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro because of a fire in the basement on Friday,

Australia's Olympic delegation head Kitty Chiller questions Russia's determination to eliminate drug cheats.

Brazilian protesters claim they have extinguished the Olympic torch as it makes its way to Rio de Janeiro.

Australia's Olympic delegation, which refused to move into its Rio apartments due to a spate of problems, takes a dig at the city's mayor.

Roger Federer pulls out of the Rio Olympics and will miss the rest of the season, including the U.S. Open, because he needs "more extensive rehabilitation" to prolong his career after knee surgery earlier this year.

The International Olympic Committee's decision to reject calls to ban all Russian competitors from the Rio Olympics could lead to "lesser protection for clean athletes," the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says..

The Australian Olympic team refuses to move in to Rio de Janeiro's village for athletes, saying the accommodation are "not safe or ready" for next month's games.

Brazil hold 10 presumed Islamist militants in isolation cells at a maximum security jail as police comb their computers and mobile phones for information about possible threats to next month's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.