Former Olympic sprinter Frankie Fredericks has been handed preliminary charges in a French investigation into vote-buying around the decision to award the 2016 Olympics to Rio de Janeiro.

Republic of Ireland international David Meyler was shaking his head in disgust. It wasn’t a stray pass or a wayward shot that had upset the Hull midfielder.

The super-mini does not sell as well in Europe as elsewhere, and that’s a shame, because its latest version is efficient and good-looking, says Declan Colley

TDs will decide this month on whether to compel Pat Hickey to answer questions about the Rio ticket scandal.

Families were treated as irritants rather than members of the wider Olympic family, writes Michael Clifford.

A claim by former Irish Olympics chief Pat Hickey that he severed links with a ticket agent rejected for the Rio 2016 games are contradicted by emails showing his “long standing relationship” with its owner.

Standing in the lobby of a hotel in Rio last year, just days before his arrest by Brazilian police, Pat Hickey did an interview with RTÉ news.

Hopes of reclaiming Ireland’s prominence in the boxing ring at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo are being undermined by a high performance system roundly criticised by the ‘Rio Review’, according to heavyweight Darren O’Neill.

Good, but could do better. If Ireland’s performance at last year’s Olympic Games were a report card it would read as exactly that.

Alex Ferguson is to return to the Old Trafford dugout for Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick's testimonial this summer.

By the time the final bell rings on her professional debut tonight, Katie Taylor hopes that talk of Rio will be firmly in her past.

The second season of the EY Hockey League gets underway this weekend and 11 Olympians will feature, fresh from their Rio 2016 campaign.

More confusing than boxing judges decisions, more complex than the rules of synchronised swimming, and more bizarre than BMXers competing at the Olympics, one could be forgiven for struggling to follow Ireland’s Rio Games ticket touting scandal.

The Olympic Council of Ireland has appointed forensic accounts experts to conduct a root and branch review of the Rio 2016 tickets controversy and will share any of its findings with the Government inquiry by October 10.

Concerns over lasting impact and cost of hosting the 2016 Games

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach praised Rio's "marvellous Games" during a closing ceremony marked by colour, music and rain at the Maracana Stadium.

A fortnight on from the first ripples of the multimillion-euro Irish Olympics ticket touting claims, two Irishmen are in a Brazilian jail, international arrest warrants are out for a billionaire football club owner, and a Government inquiry has been launched, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Rio 2016 sponsors are taking an extra step to prove their commitment to the Games and forever marry their brands to the Olympic rings: They’re hiring Olympians.

International arrest warrants have been issued for a string of executives of the sports hospitality firm embroiled in the Irish Olympic ticket touting scandal after Brazilian police dramatically claimed the crisis stretches back a decade.

Golf hasn’t been part of the Olympic programme since 1904 so you would have expected that the commencement of the men’s golf tournament today would be a time for celebration.

The Rio Olympics: What is it good for?

Australia's team bosses have refused to move staff or athletes into the Olympic Village in Rio after claiming the buildings are dangerous and uninhabitable.

Drugs, bugs, refuseniks, and a troubled host city: it really hasn’t been the smoothest of rides so far for Rio 2016, writes Brendan O’Brien

Just weeks ahead of the Olympic Games, police helicopters are grounded, patrol cars are parked, and Rio de Janeiro’s security forces are so pressed for funds that some have to beg for donations of pens, cleaning supplies, and even toilet paper, fuelling worries about safety at the world’s premier sporting event.

A group of heavily armed men stormed a Rio de Janeiro hospital to free a suspected drug trafficker, sparking a shootout with police that left a patient dead and a nurse and an off-duty policeman wounded.

When Roy Hodgson was asked recently to contrast the centre-halves England have brought to France (John Stones, Gary Cahill, Chris Smalling) with the choice Sven-Goran Eriksson had at World Cup in 2006 (Sol Campbell, Rio Ferdinand, Jamie Carragher and John Terry), he couldn’t quite bring himself to dispute the gulf in quality.

The mayor of Rio has dismissed calls for the Olympics to be cancelled or postponed because of the spread of the Zika virus.

At the flame-lighting in the ruins of ancient Olympia, Brazil’s sport minister Ricardo Leyser tried to assure the world about the troubled Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

The reports and vibes emanating from Brazil have, to be kind about it, not been reassuring

Former world champion Barry McGuigan believes the possibility of professional boxers taking part in the Rio Olympics is “crazy”.

For Cristiano Ronaldo, team spirit doesn’t involve sharing tapas with Real Madrid strike partners Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale.