Rio Olympics

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Xinyi Chen of China competes in heat four of the Women's 100m Butterfly.

Olympic pool rocked by report of Chinese positive drug test

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 11: Justin Rose of Great Britain celebrates his hole-in-one on the par four 4th hole ...

Rose hits 191-yard hole-in-one

Jessica Fox of Australia holds her bronze medal after the kayak K1 women's final.

Video review costs Fox silver medal

Viliame Mata and Ro Dakuwaqa celebrate as they win gold.

'Rugby's Twenty20 moment': Fiji crush Britain to take sevens gold

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Simone Biles has lit up social media - all while winning gold at the Olympics.

Gymnast Simone Biles lights up Rio, Instagram and the Kardashians

Australia centre Liz Cambage looks to pass around Japan forward Maki Takada (8) and forward Ramu Tokashiki.

Cambage leads Opals to win over Japan

Silver for Australia

Australian quad rowers win silver

Kyah Simon, left, fights for the ball with Zimbabwe's Lynett Motokuto on Wednesday.

Late night: Matildas prepare for unfamiliar start time

Australia's Cate Campbell after winning a semifinal of the women's 100-meter freestyle during the swimming competitions ...

Campbell on red alert ahead of 100m final after stunning men's race

Seventh in the final: Cameron McEvoy.

McEvoy had stagefright in 100m final, says Australian head coach

Kyle Chalmers wins gold in the 100m freestyle

How Kevin Durant drove Kyle Chalmers to gold

Mel Hoskins cries out in pain after a training crash at the Rio velodrome

Hoskins reveals teammate's health is worse

Kristin Armstrong of the United States reacts after winning the Women's Individual Time Trial on Day 5 of the Rio 2016 ...

American cyclist Kristin Armstrong wins third straight time trial gold

Unlucky Rohan Dennis: "When one little fault happens things break pretty easily."

'Little crack' swallows Aussie road racer's Olympic dream

Dane Bird-Smith.

'I really want a medal bad': Bird-Smith hopes to get off to a flyer

High hopes: Peter Bol (left), with fellow Australian track athlete Alex Rowe during the Australian Junior Athletics ...

The man who ran from Sudan to Australia

Just delighted to be there: Melissa Breen.

Breen knows best ever speed won't be enough

Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates has described the Rio games as 'difficult'.

Coates says Rio is the 'most difficult' Olympics he has encountered

Mack Horton, centre, celebrates after beating Sun Yang, right. in the the men's 400m freestyle.

Swimming Australia website 'under cyber attack'

Going for gold: South Africa's intersex athlete Caster Semenya is favoured to win the 800m.

IAAF to revisit intersex athlete rules

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 10: Lomano Lemeki of Japan breaks through to score a try during the Men's Pool C, Match ...

The most hated man in New Zealand

Taking a stand: Australia's Mack Horton.

Why drugs in sport needs an iron fist, not an iron curtain

COMMENT

Lilly King and Mack Horton have spoken out.

How two baby-faced swimmers became the face of the revolt against doping

Reality bites: Sonny Bill Williams' Olympic dream is over.

It's time to stop shooting down Sonny Bill

COMMENT

Lilly King celebrates as Yulia Efimova looks on.

Black-line diplomacy fails as Rio pool overheats

ANALYSIS

Anatomy of an athlete

Rio 2016: anatomy of an athlete

Daniel Cherny, Mallory Brangan

Australian swimmer Mitch Larkin

Aussies you need to watch in Rio

Interactive

Anna Meares.

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Swim

A century of freestyle records

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