The Olympic Games have produced countless uplifting, jaw dropping and heart-wrenching moments.

Swiss tennis stars Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka are the latest high profile athletes to pull out of the Rio Olympics.

NZ Herald readers have chosen Lisa Carrington to bear the Kiwi flag at 2016 Rio Olympics.

From machine guns to missing mattresses - any notion that Rio would pick up its game as athletes arrive has quickly disappeared.

Australian hurdler Michelle Jenneke is a face you may be familiar with come the end of the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Japanese gymnastics great Kohei Uchimura learned the hard way about cellphone roaming costs while playing Pokemon Go in Rio.

New Zealand will end up smelling of roses in Rio's dodgy water.

Take a look at the five athletes you may not know now, but you certainly will by the end of Rio 2016.

British hockey players Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh, the first married gay couple to compete at the Olympics, hope there are "thousands more" to follow.

COMMENT: Controversy has erupted over the approaches of individuals and nations in their quest for success.

Olympic rower George Bridgewater is a finance whizz who's made the biggest trade of his life, and he'll be expecting to collect.

The world's fastest man may have six Olympic gold medals, but that doesn't mean he's perfect.

INTERACTIVE: Explore our special feature as the countdown of New Zealand's Greatest Olympians reaches the top five.

INTERACTIVE: Explore our special feature as the countdown of New Zealand's Greatest Olympians reaches the top five.

Australian Olympic medallist Melanie Wright reveals what really happens when 10,000 athletes live together.

In 1968, Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall became the first Olympian to fail a doping test. To steady his nerves, Liljenwall

Take a look at just some of the names put forward for flag bearing contention.

Kiwi golfer Danny Lee joins Valerie Adams as the second Olympian in the past week to criticise airport security.

Morolake Akinosun tweeted when she was 17 that she would compete in the 2016 Olympics. Now, the 22-year-old Olympic runner is about to fulfill her dream.

Russia's only track and field athlete to be competing in Rio is training at the same facility as Australia's team in Florida. Long-jumper

A dire hotel accommodation shortage has opened the city's poorest favelas to tourists.

Moss Burmester is asking athletes at the Rio games to protest the International Olympics Committee decision to not completely ban Russia.

Aged 12, Danyon Loader was told to "train harder or train with the girls". A decade later he was double Olympic champion.

Watch exclusive videos of some of our best and brightest talents preparing for action in Brazil.

Tensions are high in Rio with bomb disposal experts taking no chances with a suspicious package at the venue set to host the Olympic opening ceremony.

The International Olympic Committee ignored their past failures and betrayed clean sport by not giving Russia a blanket ban from the

On a perfectly breathable Friday near sunset in the spring, you might have spotted what residents say you never would have spotted

Kiwi golfer Ryan Fox has fired a remarkable nine-under 62 to surge to victory in the European Challenge Tour's Northern Ireland Open. Staring

Two laptops and team shirts were stolen from Australia's Olympic residence during a fire evacuation.

Incredibly, the fact that sailors will compete in a giant cesspit -- which Brazilian researchers say contains drug-resistant superbacteria -- is not their main worry.