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She swapped figure skating for shooting after a family hunting trip in which she killed a deer with her first shot. Her best record on global stage before the Rio Olympics is the 4th place at the ISSF World Cup in Munich earlier this year.

Barcelona have agreed to send Thomas Vermaelen on loan to AS Roma for the 2016-2017 campaign, after the Belgium global has fallen out of favour with manager Luis Enrique.

The Nigerian U23 football team’s Olympic journey got off to an acrimonious start, with plenty of confusion and controversy about their delayed journey from their Atlanta-based training camp to Brazil itself, but since arriving in the country, they’ve done nothing but...

Theo Walcott (73′) and Chuba Akpom (86′) were all on target for the Gunners, although the increasingly impressive young striker Kelechi Iheanacho had the final say for the Citizens with his 88th minute consolation goal.

ROBREDO “We congratulate Hidilyn Diaz on winning an Olympic silver medal for weightlifting after a 20-year drought for the country”.

Bindra started brightly in the final round and improved with every shot raising the hopes of winning his second Olympic medal and also the first for the country in this Games.

Ibtihaj Muhammad made history, but there will be no individual medal for the American in sabre fencing.

NY sported one of baseball’s best reliever trios in Dellin Betances, Andrew Miller and Chapman, but the Yankees opted to retain Miller due to his longer contract.

The Chinese divers Chen Aisen and Lin Yue were way out in front the whole way with near ideal dives every single time and took home the Gold medal, but we knew before the event this evening that they would definitely be the ones to beat.

Long Qingquan and Om Yun-Chol, the 2008 and 2012 gold medalists, respectively, traded records while taking the event down to the last, unprecedented lift.

United States’ Michael Phelps kisses his gold medal after the men’s 4×100-meter freestyle final during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Good Wishes from President: The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee sent his well wishes to the Indian Group participating in the Rio Olympic Games 2016 on the eve of the opening ceremony.

The American sisters won the women’s doubles event at the 2000, 2008 and 2012 Olympics and were unbeaten after 16 matches at the Games, but their winning streak was snapped when they lost 6-3, 6-4 to the Czech pair of Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova in the opening round...

Manchester United celebrate with the trophy after winning the FA Community Shield against Leicester City at Wembly Stadium, on Sunday, August 7, 2016.

We bought a creative player, a player we know the qualities he has. “I’m happy with the effort that the club has, and is still putting in for us”. I am very pragmatic on this.