American Carl Osburn is regarded as the best Olympic sharpshooter. He holds the record for most medals won at the Games with 11 medals. He competed in the Olympics from 1912–1924. No sport made a more ...

Simone Biles is not the first athlete to acknowledge how mounting pressure to perform and achieve has affected her mental health. But by stepping away from her events on the world’s biggest stage, ...

All races are 2,000 meters, referred to as "2K." There are six lanes in each race. The six lanes are clearly marked by buoys every 10 to 12.5 meters (32 to 41 feet). The lanes must be straight and ...

In Paris, the tennis competition involves single-elimination tournaments for each of the five events. The men's and women's singles draws both feature 64 competitors; the men's and women's doubles ...

In a back-and-forth game that saw both teams enter with a .500 record, the U.S. men’s curling team earned a 7-4 win against Switzerland. American skip John Shuster's amazing eighth end proved to be ...

Switzerland’s Michelle Gisin defended her Olympic title, winning back-to-back golds in the women’s combined. She won with a time of 2:25.67, 1:05 seconds ahead of countrywoman Wendy Holdener. Italy’s ...

Alpine snowboarding: A type of snowboarding that involves racing through gates on groomed courses. Parallel giant slalom is the only discipline within Alpine snowboarding that will be staged at the ...

Team USA secured its first-ever silver in the figure skating team event with 65 points, narrowly edging Japan's 63-point ...

Modern pentathlon tests athletes across five separate disciplines. Athletes must swim, fence, ride an unfamiliar horse through a show jumping course — they get just 20 minutes to get acquainted — and ...

All Olympic beach volleyball matches are best two-out-of-three sets. The first two sets are played to 21 points by rally ...

At the 2016 Rio Games, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and American cyclist Kristin Armstrong were among the athletes who etched their names into Olympic history by winning the same individual event ...

A volleyball match begins when the ball is served into play. A team may touch the ball three times – not counting blocks – on ...