RIO 2016

One of New Zealand's own International Olympic Committee members is calling out sports which are not fronting top athletes at the Rio Olympics.

Emerging entertainer Sekon Sta (Nesta Boxill) has comfortably positioned himself into this country’s Olympic limelight citing his decision to pen a selection titled My World that aims to boost morale and stir national fervour for this T&T’s medal hopefuls heading out to Rio, Brazil for the 2016 Games, which take place from August 5-21.

An ongoing suspension of the Russian athletics team is "unlikely" to be overturned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in order to allow athletes to participate at Rio 2016, according to the body's vice-president John Coates.

We will discover over the next few days what Thomas Bach really thinks “zero tolerance" on doping should look like.

Park Tae-hwan’s hopes of competing at Rio 2016 now rest with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) rejected the swimmer’s final appeal to allow him to be a part of their team for this year’s Games.

Usain Bolt has claimed he would have no problem handing back his 4×100 metres relay Olympic gold medal from Beijing 2008 if Jamaican team-mate Nesta Carter is confirmed to have failed a drugs test.

St Lucia’s Richard Peterkin has been made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

TRINIDAD AND Tobago’s leading athletes and Rio Olympics’ hopefuls Machel Cedenio, Michelle-Lee Ahye, KellyAnn Baptiste and Lalonde Gordon are listed to compete at the inaugural Racers Grand Prix at the Jamaica National Stadium today.

Double Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar’s hopes of representing India at this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro appear to be over after the Delhi High Court dismissed his appeal to be given the opportunity to playoff against Narsingh Yadav for the country’s 74 kilograms wrestling spot at the Games.