Trinidad and Tobago's Machel Cedenio and Lalonde Gordon easily qualified for the semifinals of the Men's 400m event yesterday at the Joao Havelange Olympic Stadium, winning heat 1 and heat 4 respectively, to be two of 21 automatic qualifiers emerging from round one.

TRINIDAD and Tobago's Olympic athlete Cleopatra Borel has qualified for the final of the women's shot put in Rio de Janeiro on Friday.

Spain’s Rafael Nadal and Marc Lopez triumphed in the men’s doubles final after winning a thrilling final against Romania’s Florin Mergea and Horia Tecau at the Olympic Tennis Centre in Rio de Janeiro tonight.

An American record effort from Michelle Carter with her last throw tipped the women’s shot put final on its head here tonight and denied New Zealand's Valerie Adams a third consecutive Olympic victory.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials insist they have "absolutely no regrets" about awarding the Games to Rio de Janeiro despite the organisation's vice-president John Coates admitting they are the "most difficult...we have ever encountered".

Memo to the International Olympic Committee (IOC): if the sewers in a city are so fragile that you are frequently asked not to put toilet paper down the toilet, said city is probably not quite ready to host an Olympic Games.