Following is the medals tally at the ongoing Rio Olympics as at 10:00 am IST on Friday....
Dalilah Muhammad, the 2013 World Championships silver medalist, won the 100th medal for the US Olympic team at the Rio Olympics after finishing first in the women's 400-metre hurdles final in 53.13 seconds....
Ironically, the day woman wrestler Sakshi Malik brought in India's first medal from the Rio Olympics, the cricket-loony country may have had greater pleasure in their team's ascent to the No.1 position in the world....
The iconic Usain Bolt has always been a delight for his flamboyance and supreme self-belief but the 'world's fastest man' has become a darling of the social media over his 'bromance' with Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse....
After Indian shuttler P.V. Sindhu prevailed over Nozomi Okuhara of Japan to enter the final of the women's singles event at the Olympic Games, author Shobhaa De once again sparked the controversy by tweeting an irksome remark on the Hyderabadi....
He said in the ongoing Rio Olympics, people should continue supporting the athletes who haven't performed as per expectations, so that they can perform well in the future....
Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Alexander Zhukov has said the election of Russia's two-time Olympic champion pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva to the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Athletes' Commission is a response of the world's athletes to injustice....
The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has apologised for the actions of American swimmers who had claimed a false robbery in Rio during the ongoing Games....
Narsingh Yadav's dream of competing at the ongoing Rio Olympics has come to an end with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upholding the World Anti Doping Agency's (WADA) appeal against the clean chit given to him in a doping violation case....
Usain Bolt won the men's 200 metres title at a third consecutive Olympics with a dominant performance and moved another step closer to his target of clinching three gold medals at the Rio Games here....
