Bill Chappell

Saying it can't condone Ryan Lochte's behavior in Rio, swimwear company Speedo says it's donating part of Lochte's fee — $50,000 — to Save the Children, earmarked for children in Brazil.

Rio 2016 organizers drop the curtain on the Summer Games, after hosting the world's elite athletes who've competed for 306 medals over the past 19 days.

At just 21, Michigan native Clarissa Shields becomes the first U.S. boxer — male or female — to repeat as an Olympic champion. She beat the Netherlands' Nouchka Fontijn in Rio Sunday.

"I'm afraid the flag is going to be too heavy for me because Michael Phelps is so much taller and he seemed to carry it so easily," Simone Biles says, in a light moment at the end of the games.

Brazilian star Neymar opened the scoring midway through the first half, bending a beautiful free kick. More than an hour later, he finished the game off on a penalty kick.

"I was in my own world, I was crushed," says boxer Shakur Stevenson, 19, after losing the gold medal to Cuba's Robeisy Ramirez at Rio's Summer Olympics in a split-decision Saturday.

When the Olympics is too much with us, it's time to try something new. A trip to Friday's race walk gold medal race seemed like just the thing — and it was.

In a post-race interview that lasted less than 3 minutes, Gay used the word "weird" no less than seven times to describe how this race went for the Americans.

It's the most goals ever scored in a women's water polo final, and the widest margin of victory.

After the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee issued a formal apology to Rio and Brazil over the U.S. swimmers' behavior, star athlete Ryan Lochte broke his silence over a debunked robbery claim.

Apologizing for the behavior of Ryan Lochte and three other swimmers, Scott Blackmun announced that two of them have left Rio. A third is reportedly paying out nearly $11,000 to get his passport back.

Coming into this event, Usain Bolt held both the world record, at 19.19 seconds, and the Olympic record, at 19.30. He was the only runner to clock a time of under 20 seconds Thursday.

It was a team that ran alone: The women of the U.S. 4x100-meter relay team raced by themselves under the lights of Rio's Olympic Stadium on Thursday, going against the clock for a shot at the final.

Allyson Felix and her teammates on the U.S. women's 4x100-meter relay team get a second shot to make the final, after successfully arguing that other runners made them drop the baton.

A day after police pulled two of Ryan Lochte's teammates off a U.S.-bound plane to discuss their alleged robbery, police say the swimmers admit the story was a fabrication.

Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger have now been released, U.S. officials say — but the pair are going to keep talking with police in Rio.

Police visited the athletes' village in Rio Wednesday, hoping to seize the passports of Ryan Lochte and James Feigen. Later, officers removed two U.S. swimmers from their flight home.

Patrick Joseph Hickey, who serves on the International Olympic Committee's 15-member executive board, is stepping aside temporarily, his national council says.

Americans Simone Biles and Aly Raisman are the first U.S. gymnasts in history to win gold and silver in the women's floor exercise at Rio's Summer Olympics.

The American's victory assures him of no worse than a bronze medal. Those watching the fight included boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr.