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Rio 2016 Olympics headlines with summaries.
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Brazil police charge Lochte over robbery claim
27 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Police in Brazil have charged US swimmer Ryan Lochte with making a false statement about being robbed at gunpoint during the Olympics.
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'It wasn’t about the gold' - Steven Adams
24 Aug 2016Valerie Adams is the "most disciplined person in the world and just the hardest worker," her brother Steven told a media conference in Auckland today.
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Ban on Russian Paralympics athletes upheld
23 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Russia will not compete at next month's Paralympics after losing an appeal against a ban imposed for state-sponsored doping.
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Speedo, Ralph Lauren drop Lochte after Rio incident
23 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Swimwear maker Speedo and luxury retailer Ralph Lauren Corp had dropped their sponsorship contracts with disgraced Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte.
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Performance-based funding 'wrong' - former Olympian
22 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Too much sports funding is decided on individual athlete's performances, a former Olympic swimmer says. Audio
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Spotlight turns to success after Rio
22 Aug 2016Sports Call - Rio will be considered a success for New Zealand but the focus is now shifting to the long-term development of many sports, Barry Guy writes. Video, Audio
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Mongolian wrestling coaches strip after bronze medal loss
22 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Two Mongolian coaches stripped off and hurled their shoes in protest when wrestler Mandakhnaran Ganzorig was denied victory in his bronze medal contest.
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USA win 15th Olympic gold in men's basketball
22 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - The United States men's basketball team have continued their Olympic domination - winning their third straight gold medal after a comprehensive 96-66 win over Serbia.
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More Irish officials caught up in illegal ticketing scandal
22 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Brazil police confirmed they have seized the passports of three members of the Olympic Council of Ireland as part of an investigation into illegal ticket sales at the Rio Olympics.
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Gaze has Olympic debut to forget
22 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Having waited patiently to finally get his Olympic event underway, New Zealand Cross country mountain biker Sam Gaze had a nightmare run this morning.
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Ringing the highlights: RNZ recaps Rio
23 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - The RNZ sports team in Rio and at home in New Zealand recount the good, the bad, the ugly and the magical of the Rio Olympics.
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2012 shot-put medallist stripped of Olympic medal
22 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - The Russian shot putter Evgeniia Kolodko has been officially stripped of her silver medal from the London 2012 Olympics, after testing positive for banned substances in a re-test.
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Counting the true cost of Rio's Games
21 Aug 2016Sports Call - There's an element of sadness as the curtain comes down on the Rio Olympics, but as Stephen Hewson writes, it's not because the Games are over.
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NZ Olympic medallists cheered home
24 Aug 2016New Zealand's returning Olympians have had an ecstatic welcome home. Illustrator Toby Morris captured the action in Auckland. Video
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Double medallist Lisa Carrington to lead NZ at closing ceremony
22 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Lisa Carrington will lead New Zealand's Olympic Team into Maracana Stadium this morning as the Rio Games draw to a close.
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Walker NZ's latest IOC member
22 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - New Zealand Olympic silver medallist Sarah Walker has become an International Olympic Committee member having been appointed to the IOC's Athletes Commission.
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Australian athletes reclaim seized passports
22 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Nine Australian Olympic athletes had their passports returned this morning, a team official says, after an accreditation problem at the Rio Games earlier saw them risk missing…
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Bronze for Nick Willis in 1500m
22 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Nick Willis says eight years after his first Olympic success, today's bronze medal effort in Rio is satisfying in different ways.
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'I am so proud of myself'
21 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Lydia Ko has won silver in the women's golf in Rio, edging out China's Shanshan Feng by one stroke. Video
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Celebration for NZ Olympians: how it happened
24 Aug 2016Hundreds of people gathered at the Cloud on Auckland's waterfront this morning to meet their Olympic heroes. Look back at our coverage of the NZ team's return home.
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McCartney wins bronze in pole vault
21 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Pole vaulter Eliza McCartney has won a bronze medal in Rio, equalling her personal best of 4.8 metres in the final. Video
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Rio Olympics: Kiwi kayakers come fifth in final
21 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - The women's K4 kayaking crew of Aimee Fisher, Kayla Imrie, Caitlin Ryan and Jaimee Lovett have come fifth in their final at the Rio Olympics.
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Ko, K4 crew lead NZ medal hopes on penultimate day
21 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - New Zealand's Lydia Ko could win the first Olympic gold medal in women's golf since 1900 when she competes in the final round in Rio tomorrow morning.
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Ko catapults into medal contention
20 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - A hole in one for New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko has helped propel her into medal contention in the women's golf tournament in Rio.
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