The medal winning Irish rowers who have been winning hearts around the globe with hilarious comments in interviews have gone one step better.

Cate Campbell reckons her gold and silver relay medals were punctuated by "possibly the greatest choke in Olympic history".

A crushed Emma Twigg is to retire from rowing, shattered at falling short of an Olympic medal for the third time.

New Zealand runner Zane Robertson has repeated his claims that doping is being covered up in Kenya after finishing 12th in the 10,000m.

We ask two of our rowing experts three key questions surrounding New Zealand's rowing landscape.

Brazilian police and a vocal home crowd conspired against Australia's women's footballers in their exit from the Olympic Games, the Matildas believe.

New Zealand's Olympic team is still on track for a record haul at these Games.

The Australian men's sevens team have been given a warning about behaving responsibly after members of the squad had a boozy night in Rio.

Zane Robertson has broken Dick Quax's 39-year-old national 10,000m record to finish 12th at the Rio Olympics behind Britain's Mo Farah.

Kiwi sailors Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie have launched a failed bid to get a disqualification from the opening race of their Olympic regatta overturned.

All the action from day eight of the Rio Olympics.

Olympic gold medallist Michelle Carter is a clean athlete, says Valerie Adams.

New Zealand's world class sailors are poised to rescue our fading Rio Olympics campaign.

Kayaker Lisa Carrington is regarded as the rock star of her sport in Europe and is hunted down and mobbed for her autograph her mum says

The mystery behind the Rio Olympics' unsightly, swamp-green pool water appears to be finally solved. The explanation, however, is

Kiwi cyclist Olivia Podmore was lucky to escape a serious injury at the Rio Olympics velodrome today.

The most stressful moment of Usain Bolt's career didn't come on the track, but in a Jamaican hospital ward after a crash that could have taken his life.

The only member of Russia's athletics team permitted to compete at the Olympics in the wake of the country's doping ban has been suspended.

German discus thrower Christoph Harting followed in his older brother's footsteps by winning gold in Rio. But he was hardly celebrating afterwards.

Sonny Bill Williams is back in New Zealand and is set to undergo surgery on his ruptured Achilles tendon in Auckland on Tuesday, It's

Catch up with the results of all the Kiwi athletes who competed at the Rio Olympics overnight.

Ethiopian runner Etenesh Diro - one of the favourites in the women's 3000m steeplechase - was sitting comfortably in first place about

The rowing programme's funding levels will be under threat for the first time in years, writes Andrew Alderson.

Justin Gatlin hit back at US swimmer Lilly King after breezing through his opening 100m heat to remain on an Olympic collision course

She's a multiple gold medallist at several European Championships, winning events both as a part of a team and as an individual. But

Less than five minutes after Almaz Ayana had crossed the line in the 10,000m final, one of her rivals said what everyone was thinking.

It's not often America turns on one of its own athletes in the middle of an Olympic Games but this "coward" is copping it.

Adams came agonisingly close yesterday to becoming the first New Zealander to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals in the shot put final.

COMMENT: There's always medals per capita and medals per GDP tables. Look at those and we're still beating the Aussies. That has to count for something.

COMMENT: The Rio Olympics are a perfect reflection of everything that is wrong with our times.