And by 2016, in Rio, 45% of the 11,238 athletes were women. Looking ahead, there's more good news; at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, 49% of all participants were female - a new ...

The Tokyo Olympics will feature a record number of LGBTQ athletes ... Rio Games, where she placed sixth. The 36-year-old, who only started rowing professionally after college, will compete in the ...

2016’s Rio Games included 161 events for men, 136 for women and nine ... watching men. The Olympics offer that prime time viewing, and we can’t wait to cheer on all athletes at next year ...

At the 2016 Rio Games, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and ... for two of the five gold medals ever won by Colombia at the Olympic Games. A win would make her the first athlete (male or female) to win a ...

that they are female." The 2024 Paris Olympics boxing is following rules previously used by the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in Brazil, which Adams argued the two athletes are eligible under.

Latin America’s first Paralympics will be remembered as the peoples’ Games where the people of Rio turned out in their droves to support athletes of all countries ... Rio won the right to stage the ...

Our study included 25 bone stress injuries reported during the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympic Games. They occurred more commonly in women, mostly in the lower extremities and most commonly in ...

Athletes compete in the men’s 50-kilometer race walk on Friday. (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images) The men’s and women’s race walking events continued at the Rio Olympics on Friday and so ...

Cindy Ngamba is a boxer competing in women's -75kg, looking to become the ... countries has increased from four to 15 since Rio. In Rio, only three sports included Refugee Olympic Team athletes. Tokyo ...

Australian athletes who won medals at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games will receive over a million ... The big winners include the Women’s Rugby 7s Team ($240,000) and our Swimming Team ($320,000).

The conference helps athletes process the experience they've just had and the post-olympic blues that can follow. It also prepares athletes to go into another Olympic or Paralympic cycle-if they want ...

Fourth on her Olympic debut in Tokyo in the women’s four ... Olympic champions by claiming a historic gold at Rio 2016. The ...