There were incredible scenes across Fiji on Friday as their men's rugby sevens team steamrolled Great Britain to clinch the island nation's first ever Olympic medal, and a gold one at that.
Swimming Australia's website has come under a suspected cyber attack, following Australian swimmer Mack Horton's outspoken comments about Chinese rival Sun Yang being a drug cheat.
An Olympic boxer looks set to compete in Rio four days after being charged with attempted rape.
A police officer is recovering after he and two others sent to Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics were shot after getting lost near a slum.
Volleyballer Diana Reyes' preparations for the OIympics were thrown into disarray when she was involved in a car crash in her home country of Puerto Rico just two days before she was due to fly to Rio with her teammates.
A man has been rushed to hospital after being impaled on a fence outside media accommodation at the Rio Olympics.
Rio de Janeiro: It's being characterised as the Cold War recast. America against China. America against Russia. Throw in a Hungarian swimmer under grave suspicion, introduce in an Australian unafraid to brand a rival a drug cheat, and a western-eastern bloc picture distils.
An official media bus at the Rio Olympics has been hit by projectiles travelling between one of the Games' four main competition zones and the main press hub.
No-one goes anywhere without their mobile phone these days.
Some athletes sleep with their medal draped around their neck after winning gold at an Olympic Games, but Australia's women's rugby team had theirs locked away in a safe overnight.
French gymnast Samir Ait Said's horrific leg injury shocked the world, then bumbling paramedics dropped him on the ground.
World records? Olympic medals? History? Bah to all of it, apparently.
Mark Horton is an IT worker from Watford, a town north-west of London.
The Namibian Olympic team flag bearer is the second athlete to be arrested at the Rio Olympics Athletes Village accused of sexual assault of a housemaid.
They are extraordinarily talented female athletes who have climbed to the pinnacle of their sport.
Rio officials apologise after Chinese flag mix-up.
World Paralympic bosses have taken the hardline decision the International Olympic Committee baulked at: to ban all Russian athletes from their imminent Rio Games.
Australia's 400m freestyle gold medallist Mack Horton has copped a barrage of abuse from Chinese swimming fans on social media in the wake of his sledge on rival Sun Yang.
The Rio Olympics had already kicked off under somewhat of a cloud, with security concerns and the Russian doping scandal casting a shadow over the Games.
High winds have thrown the rowing schedule at the Rio Olympics into confusion with all competition cancelled on day two.
Day two of the Rio Olympic Games has started as day one finished - with long queues, spectator complaints - and staff late for work.
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.
Two Australian rowing coaches have been robbed at knifepoint near Rio's famous Ipanema Beach after attending the Australian team's informal opening ceremony on Friday night.
Liz Willock believes she missed her flight to Philadelphia for a reason. Had she not taken a later one out of Chicago, she might not have had Ellis Hill as her Uber driver on her trip from the airport to her hotel.
In the end, neither incident amounted to much but they were indicative of underlying tensions here, where anything suspicious can seem like a serious threat in these heavily patrolled Games.
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