Rio 2016 Olympics

New Zealand has enjoyed great success in equestrian at the Olympics and Sir Mark Todd is at the heart of those achievements.

New Zealand sailors Blair Tuke and Peter Burling head into Rio as one of the clear favourites for their event, the men's 49er.

Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie, known as Team Jolly, won Olympic gold at London 2012 and head to the 2016 games ready to take on the Rio venue as a new challenge. Video

The latest addition to the New Zealand Olympic team for Rio, wrestler Craig Miller says his sport will be changed forever by the Russian doping saga.

Russia should be banned from Rio Olympics in the wake of a damning report from the World Anti-Doping Agency says the head of High Performance Sport New Zealand Alex Bauman.

New Zealand's Olympic single sculls rowing champion Mahe Drysdale says Russia must be given a complete ban from next month's Rio Games. Audio

The IOC says that Russian doping cover-ups confirmed by WADA showed a "shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport and the Olympic Games."

Flashbacks of the US Open slipping from her grasp a week ago, tormented women's world golf number one Lydia Ko as she battled for victory in the latest LPGA tour event in Ohio.

Six years after being involved in spot fixing at Lord's, the home of cricket, Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir has returned to help Pakistan to one of their most memorable test triumphs over…

Golfers Lydia Ko, Danny Lee and Ryan Fox have been confirmed in the New Zealand Olympic Team for Rio.

Two-times grand slam champion Lleyton Hewitt has opted out of his role as coach of the Australian men's tennis team at the Rio Olympics for "personal reasons".

Several anti-doping agencies want a complete ban on Russia competing at the Rio Olympics if next week's key report into allegations of state-backed doping at the 2014 Sochi winter Olympics is damning…

Czech Tomas Berdych has become the third high-profile tennis player to withdraw from the Olympics in two days, saying his concerns over the Zika virus prompted his decision.

The Olympic shot put champion Valerie Adams has shown she's returning to top form just three weeks out from the Rio Games, winning the latest Diamond League meeting in Monaco.

The almost four year winning run of New Zealand sailors Peter Burling and Blair Tuke has come to end just three weeks before the Rio Olympics.

After nine years in the A-League, All Whites striker Shane Smeltz is moving to the Malaysian competition.

Opinion - The mass defection of male golfers ahead of the Olympic Games does not reflect well on them, writes Joseph Romanos.

Ukrainian weightlifter Yulia Kalina has been stripped of the bronze medal she won at the 2012 London Olympics after a re-analysis of her samples from the time tested positive for a steroid.

Male golfers ambivalence to the Olympics has been further underlined with four time major winner Rory McIIroy saying he probably won't watch the golf at the Rio Games.

Golden Moments - Mark Todd's remarkable Olympic career spans four decades but his victory at Los Angeles in 1984 was probably the most dramatic.