The last of the four American Olympic swimmers involved in a highly-publicised incident at a Rio petrol station is on his way back to the US.

A judge in Brazil has issued an order to prevent US swimmers Ryan Lochte and James Feigen from leaving the country on the grounds they gave conflicting accounts of their robbery outside the Rio Games on Sunday, a Brazilian daily has said.

Medical experts and leading rugby officials will gather with peers from other top global sports tomorrow in a bid to accelerate how to properly diagnose and treat player concussions.

Olympic organisers howl with laughter at girl who cried wolf

I know how galling this all must be, hearing about the big North American freeze and the tremors of polar madness it’s firing across the ocean to stir things up around your way.

Barack Obama has sent Russia a clear message about its treatment of gays and lesbians with his choices to represent the United States at the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Embattled UCI president Pat McQuaid has been challenged to prove his commitment to good governance by taking a dispute over theforthcoming election to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

The president of the International Cycling Union (UCI) has been challenged to prove his commitment to good governance by taking a dispute over the forthcoming election to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

About 10,000 people remained displaced by the largest wildfire in Colorado history today, a day after President Barack Obama visited the scene and called it a “major disaster”.

The US Anti-Doping Agency have confirmed they are to file formal doping charges against Lance Armstrong which could see the cyclist lose his record-breaking total of seven Tour de France titles.

American LaShawn Merritt has been cleared to defend his 400 metres title at the London Olympics after winning his appeal against an International Olympic Committee (IOC) ban.

Gay couples celebrated today after a judge overturned California’s same-sex-marriage ban.

OLYMPIC swimmer Michael Phelps embarrassed himself again after a triumphant summer , this time getting his picture snapped as he inhaled from a marijuana pipe.

Justin Gatlin is making another challenge against his drug suspension tomorrow in a bid to be allowed to compete at the USA Olympic trials in Eugene beginning next weekend.

The Olympic torch arrived in San Francisco today amid increased security after the chaotic scenes in Paris and London.

International Olympic chiefs have declared their intention to join the fight against illegal betting on sports events.

Marion Jones has been formally stripped of her five Olympic medals, but the IOC have postponed a decision on whether her relay team-mates will lose their medals.

Marion Jones, the American athletics star, is facing a prison sentence after admitting lying about not taking drugs.

Chicago beat Los Angeles today in a US Olympic Committee vote to pick a candidate for the 2016 Summer Games.

OLYMPIC 100m champion Justin Gatlin must serve a minimum drugs ban of four years, says the world governing body.

James Rockefeller, the oldest-known US Olympic medal winner and former head of the bank that became Citigroup, has died at 102.

CATHAL LOMBARD, the 28-year-old Cork runner, has acknowledged that he tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug, EPO.

TIM MONTGOMERY’S lawyer, Cristina Arguedas, yesterday said the world number one will fight any attempt to ban him from the Olympics after it was revealed the sprinter had been notified by the US Anti-Doping Agency that he has been reported for drug violations.

Tim Montgomery’s lawyer, Cristina Arguedas, has stated that the world number one will fight any attempt to ban him from the Olympics after it was revealed the sprinter had been notified by the US Anti-Doping Agency that he has been reported for drug violations.

THE US Olympic team’s head of security is to meet his Irish counterpart in a bid to ease concerns over safety at this summer’s Athens Games.

United States Olympic hero Mark Spitz has raised the spectre of an American withdrawal from this summer’s Athens Games due to security concerns.

IT IS ironic that a word as cumbersome as tetrahydrogestrinone should be the name of a drug so easy to digest.

EVENING is still coming as Tommie Smith sits on a wooden bench and looks over the Santa Monica College track, his young charges heading off for the day while the football team continues to work out.

THE US Olympic Committee (USOC) has identified 24 athletes who tested positive for banned drugs and then won medals at the Olympic Games over the last two decades, the Los Angeles Times has reported.

NINE-TIME Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis has shrugged off the controversy surrounding his failed drug tests at the 1988 Olympic Trials.

Carl Lewis heads the list of 19 American medallists who tested positive for drugs but were still allowed to compete at the Olympic Games in 1988.