Meet Tom, the Paralympic mascot of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games ... a Brazilian bossa nova song that has reached worldwide fame. The Olympic counterpart to Tom is also named after a musician, the ...

Could the Americas' largest primate be the mascot of the 2016 Olympics? On Wednesday, a group at the Rio de Janeiro State Environmental Institute submitted a proposal to make the muriqui as the ...

The mascot is described as encompassing "Rio's landscape, Brazilian spirit and Olympic values like the torch, gold and championship." A public vote will determine which of three names will be ...

An example of this in the Olympics is 'Vinicius' the 2016 mascot for Rio which was a merge of different Brazilian animals to represent the diversity of Brazilian culture and it's people.

His designer had just one night to prepare a plan for submission. The official mascot for the second Winter Olympics was a snowman that wore a Tyrolean hat from the Innsbruck region of Austria. Lake ...

Europe Lost the War The IOC averted its eyes from the glaring, predictable problems in Rio. The International Olympic Committee wanted to believe that Rio de Janeiro could host a spectacular ...

(Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images) The men’s and women’s race walking events continued at the Rio Olympics on Friday and so did the Internet’s snark about the sport. But it wasn’t always such ...

Olympic officials have identified 43 candidates for a team of refugee athletes who will compete in this year’s Summer Games in Rio De Janeiro. No details were given on where the team members ...

Farah defended both his 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic titles at Rio 2016 and was also Europe’s fastest man over 1500m, 3,000m, 5,000m, 10,000m and the half-marathon this year. He's now speaking to ...