Silver medallist's Olympic campaign has been delivered another devastating setback after training crash results in double fracture.

A top Kiwi skier whose sporting career and Olympic dream was ended by a broken back is seeking a career in paramedicine.

Only the most committed passengers will get a ticket on Val Adams' bus to the Rio Olympics.

New Zealand Olympic Committee will brief athletes on the risks associated with the outbreak of the Zika virus in South America.

The former head of world sailing's governing body has claimed he was fired for pushing to move the Olympic sailing venue out of Guanabara Bay due to pollution concerns.

The memory of Andrea Hewitt's late fiance and coach will live on as our top triathlon medal hope battles it out for gold at the Rio de Janiero Olympics.

Pregnant women are being warned not to go to the Rio Olympics after a virus causing thousands of babies to be born with unusually small heads swept the region.

World No 1 Jordan Spieth and rival Rory McIlroy have begged to differ on the importance of winning golfing gold at the Rio Olympics this August.

Now for the good Olympic news. Just kidding...this year's Rio Games have been dogged by bad news and it's not getting any better.

Kiwi boxer devours the art of amateur boxing but has little interest in the professional side of the sport, writes Dylan Cleaver.

Kiwi David Howman has entered the last six months of a 13-year tenure as director-general of the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Next to putting Moses in a skiff, no one parts water in the rowing world as consistently or successfully as Hamish Bond and Eric Murray.

The recently retired captain will be in the grandstands cheering on his partner Gemma Flynn and her Black Sticks hockey team-mates at the Olympics.