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Rio 2016 - Off the Field

Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates

Olympics bosses claim credit for archery medal in Rio

Australia's first ever medal in team archery has been claimed by the nation's top two sports administrators - the AOC's John Coates and the ASC's John Wylie - as evidence of each other's opposing views of what is required to drive this country to a top five position in the table of Olympic nations.

The bullet landed inside the media centre at the Olympic Equestrian Centre.

Bullet fired at Olympics equestrian centre

A stray bullet, believed to have been fired from a Brazilian military rifle, has narrowly missed photographers during the first day of Olympic competition at the Equestrian Centre in Rio De Janeiro.

Jorge Alberto Oliveira Gomes reacts after lighting the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer ...

First green, now gold: the climate changes in Rio

Rio de Janeiro's opening ceremony made a virtue of a vice, and a statement of a virtue. The vice was a cut-price budget roughly a tenth of London's four years ago and spare change from Beijing's before that.

Lighting the night sky: Rio's opening ceremony was a spectacle of lights, lasers and Samba.

Rio's high-tech Samba party goes off without a hitch

Against a background of protests, petty crime and a discoloured warm-up swimming pool portending the end of civilisation, Rio's response was to show that it could choreograph a high-technicolour samba party to perfection. Although this is largely a made-for-television production, a TV broadcast could only do approximate justice to the complex, dazzling and emotionally moving display designed and performed by the locals. Now to fix those leaking taps.

Not all smiles: Many Brazilians are unhappy that the lavish Olympics will be held while there is so much poverty in the ...

Police fire tear gas at protesters outside Maracana stadium

Tension flared at the end of a protest against the Olympic Games on Friday evening. Police fired tear gas and a percussion grenade after youths set a Brazilian flag and a Rio 2016 volunteer's T-shirt on fire and tried to get too close to where the Opening Ceremony for Rio 2016 will shortly be held. One man was arrested.