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Tongan flagbearer's quest to qualify for the Winter Olymics goes on.

A tourist strayed into a notorious slum in Rio de Janeiro and was shot dead by drug traffickers.

Rio de Janeiro was warned of the economic stresses an Olympics can place on a city - and now they are paying the price.

Herald Investigative Journalist Phil Vine talks to Liam Malone via skype in the lead up to his 400m race for Gold.

Laura McGoldrick updates us on today's cracker Paralympics medal score!

Family and friends of New Zealand Olympic team members are gathering at the Auckland International Airport ahead of their arrival home this morning.

Questions are being raised about Ryan Lochte's future in swimming as he faces an Olympic disciplinary commission after lying about an armed robbery.

A Japanese gold medallist celebrated her wrestling win by hurling her coach to the ground before parading him around the arena on her shoulders.

Michael Phelps' appearance on the latest cover of Sports Illustrated has insiders cringing over one very expensive oversight.

The partner of NZ Olympic cyclist Linda Villumsen is in the middle of a sibling controversy which has arisen after Britain's extraordinary success on the Rio track.

As well as a gold medal, this North Korean athlete has picked up another title in Rio - the saddest medal winner at the Games.

She's an Olympic record holder and half of a cycling power couple, but Laura Trott has been forced to slam haters after her NZ based sister's TV interview.

The oiled Tongan flagbearer has bared all about being a professional athlete.

Russian Olympian Evgeny Korotyshkin posted a chilling snapshot of children brandishing guns after claiming he was mugged in Rio.

His gutsy swim at the 2000 Sydney Games made him a cult figure, but what has become of Eric Moussambani since?

Yet another mishap to hit the Olympic games - this time a man is reported to have been impaled on a fence outside media accommodation in Rio.

A Portia Woodman try right on half time proved to be the difference between a semi-final slot and a disappointing exit. New Zealand

COMMENT: You could trace the mountains in the night. In Rio, they stick out like fence palings and in the darkness the landscape looms, the cliffs a shade darker than the sky.

Its members call it, with an almost religious conviction, "the Olympic Movement," or "the Movement" for short, always capitalised.

COMMENT: I want Rio to make all the bad news recede when I watch its Olympic opening ceremony.

Brazil won the right to host the Olympics when times were good. But locals are now not so sure the city is up to the task.