There have been plenty of memorable moments at the Rio Olympic Games, and you don't have to be a rugby supporter to have been swept up in the euphoria of the Australian women's sevens team picking up a gold medal.
Ten Australian athletes in Rio have been detained by police for allegedly tampering with accreditations .
He's done it. Usain Bolt, in gold spikes, waited 27 seconds to see if his three Jamaican teammates could shift the baton around the track. His fate was in their hands, and our hearts were in our mouths. Finally, as he had done in Beijing and London, he was able to finish the job. The Olympic men's 4x100m relay final took forever and was over in a flash.
Olympic sports remain "in denial … [and] not doing anywhere near enough" about their doping problems while cycling, in contrast, had at least confronted its drug-infested past, declared the head of world cycling.
Alana Boyd jumped as high as she had ever jumped, give or take a centimetre. She jumped as high as her dad had ever jumped in an Olympics. She jumped as high as the bronze medallist. But she did not win a medal.
We can confirm Almaz Ayana is human after all. It looked doubtful for a while there though.
Around three years ago the Esposito clan - siblings Chloe and Max and father Daniel packed up and left their home in Casula, in western Sydney, for Budapest. Behind them they left Chloe and Max's sister Emily and their mother Suzanne.
The show will go on for Australia's Paralympic athletes despite a massive budget shortfall and dismal ticket sales.
A desperate handwritten two-page letter from Emma McKeon has convinced Australia's Olympic chef de mission Kitty Chiller to perform a stunning backflip to allow the swimmer to march in the closing ceremony.
The Boomers, Australia's great hope for a rare team medal at the Rio Olympics, capitulated with the weight of a nation on their shoulders with their hot hand going ice cold when it mattered most.
The Rio Olympics started a long way behind, and did not catch up. Australia started a long way in front, of itself, and was trampled from behind. All round, there has been an Olympian overreach.
Usain Bolt has won his ninth Olympic gold medal.
Just a day after being eliminated after a baton change bungle the US women have won a protest and won a gold.
If sport is war minus the shooting, this was basketball without the baskets. It was war with the shooting, but minus the scoring. It was war anyway, because Australia like to play that way, and Serbia was happy to engage them on those terms, and obliterate them on those terms, with a lot of shooting and not much scoring themselves, but way more than Australia. It was man-on-man, mano a mano, hand-to-hand, but only the loosest link between hand and eye. Hand-eye in this contest meant the scratches on the cheekbones of Matt Dellavedova and Andrew Bogut.
Of the approximately 11,000 athletes competing in Rio, at least 120 have served suspensions or had to return medals for doping and were reinstated in time for this year's Games. This is about one out of every 100 competitors.
For Australia's 4x400m relay team, it was a tale of a squeak, and then shrieks.
Australia's Chloe Esposito has produced a stunning final leg in the women's modern pentathlon to win the country's first ever medal in the sport
Welcome to our live coverage of day 14 of competition at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, in health, to love and to cherish, when one of us wins Olympic silver and the other does not, til death do us part. Amen. American Alise Post, engaged to Australian Sam Willoughby, had just scored the win of her BMX racing career. Minutes later she was waiting, heart-beating-like-a-drum-anticipating, her fiancée experiencing exactly the same thing. Before her 34.435 second Olympic silver medal winning time, Willoughby, who she first met at the junior BMX
Ten countries may not be able to attend the Paralympics as cash-strapped organisers announce major cutbacks.
Organisers of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games will do all they can to convince athletics superstar Usain Bolt to extend his career to attend their event.
If medal counts were adjusted for the factors that matter most when it comes to sporting achievement, Australia would slump surprisingly far - even struggling to make the top 30, according to one measure.
Caroline Buchanan came to Rio as a gold medal favourite in the women's BMX. After crashing in the semi-finals, she could not hide how much it hurt.
Team USA took another step towards achieving the inevitable by booking its passage into the gold medal game after accounting for Spain in the semi final.
Jared Tallent won silver in the men's 50km walk on Friday, but his inspirational effect on Australia's athletics cause didn't end there.
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