Rio Olympics

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Diana Taurasi and the U.S. women's basketball team opened their Olympics with a record rout in Rio. The Americans were not expected to be challenged on Sunday by Senegal, and the only real suspense was how many records they would set...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro  A new report says the $3 billion subway expansion built as one of the main Olympic legacy projects in Rio de Janeiro was overbilled by 25 percent. Rio de Janeiro state auditors say contracts show discrepancies such as invoices with overpriced materials and inconsistencies in services hired by the state...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maya Moore hit four free throws in the final 40 seconds to help the U.S. women's Olympic basketball team survive a stiff test from a U.S. select team with an 88-84 victory on Monday night. After trailing for most of the first half and building a 12-point lead in the third quarter, the select group rallied...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Outside hitter Jordan Larson and setter Courtney Thompson of Kent, Washington, have been named to the U.S. women's volleyball roster for the upcoming Rio Olympics by coach Karch Kiraly. They are joined by middles Foluke Akinradewo and Christa Dietzen as returnees from the team that won the silver medal at the 2012 London Games...

Doubled up. Felix finishes 4th, no chance for Olympic double EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Allyson Felix's chance at the Olympic double is over. She was beaten out for third place by .01 seconds by a diving Jenna Prandini in the 200-meter final at U...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Possible new slogan for the U.S. Olympic track team: Higher, Faster, Younger. There could be a youth movement underway on the track over the next two weeks. A group of up-and-comers are angling for spots on America's Olympic track team, hoping to duplicate the success a new crop of swimmers is making at that sport's trials in Omaha, Nebraska...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Katie Ledecky earned her spot for the Rio Olympics, winning the 400-meter freestyle at the U.S. swimming trials Monday night. The only thing that didn't go her way was another world record. Ledecky set a blistering pace over the first half of the race, putting her more than 2 seconds ahead of the pace from her record-setting performance at the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships in A

UNDATED (AP) — Rory McIlroy has decided against competing in the Olympics because of the Zika virus. The four-time major champion says he may want to start a family in the future, and that going to the Olympics is "a risk I am unwilling to take...

Louis Oosthuizen is the latest major champion who says he won't be taking part in golf's return to the Olympics. Oosthuizen says scheduling and family issues led him to inform the South African delegation that he won't be playing in Rio the first full week of August...