Ticket reminder from Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt has encouraged people to come and watch him make history for one last time at Rio 2016 with a message to four million of his followers on Twitter. "Five days until the start of T&F - get your tickets Rio2016_es @Rio2016_en @Rio2016," Bolt tweeted.
The Jamaican sprint star has set his sights on a remarkable 'triple-triple' as he attempts to win three more gold medals to add to the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m relay he won at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. He is also targeting a new world record in the 200m.
Rio will be Bolt's last Olympic Games - he will turn 30 on the day of the closing ceremony - and the six-time Olympic champion has confirmed he will retire in 2017 after the World Championships in London, where he will only run in the 100m.
Brazil's model fencer
A day after star model Gisele Bundchen sashayed down the middle of the opening Olympic ceremony to rapturous applause, the crowd went crazy for another graceful, long-haired Brazilian model strutting her stuff on the fencing piste.
Nathalie Moellhausen, whose sixth-place finish on Saturday was the best ever for a Brazilian woman, has walked for Italian dressmaker Alberta Ferretti and won team gold at the 2009 World Championship. She says the inspiration for both is the same.
"Everything I do in fashion is related to fencing," said Italian-born Moellhausen, wearing gold earrings of her own design in the shape of swords. "My idea is to develop fencing as not just a sport, but as an artistic form, like fashion."
Secret 'agent'
Kenya's team have sent their track and field manager home from Rio, Olympics bosses said on Sunday, after allegations he requested money to let undercover journalists, posing as athlete representatives, know when drugs testers would come calling.
Michael Rotich denies the accusation published in a British newspaper. The Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya said it would look into the report, while the Kenyan sports minister questioned why allegations stemming from a secret recording earlier this year were published after the Olympics began.
"The national Olympic committee (of Kenya) has asked that he leaves as his presence is distracting the team," IOC spokesman Mark Adams said.
Happy to sad
The 84-year-old grandmother of a Thai Olympic bronze medal winner collapsed and died while celebrating the weightlifter's success in Rio, police said. The octogenarian was watching a live broadcast of her 20-year-old grandson, Sinphet Kruaithong, take third place in the 56-kg division. But a viral video showed the jubilant scene of cheering fans in his rural hometown transform into tragedy after his grandmother, Subin Khongthap, collapsed while watching the competition on a projector.
"The initial assumption is that she died from heart failure - but we have to wait for the hospital's report," said Somwang Prangprakoan a police officer in northeastern Surin province.
Call for respect
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has urged athletes to show "respect" to each other in the wake of a war-of-words involving drug-tainted swimmers and their rivals.Australia swimmer Mack Horton triggered uproar in China after branding rival Sun Yang as a "drugs cheat" before dethroning the Chinese star at the weekend.
That was followed by more vitriol on Sunday when athletes rounded on two-time Russian doping offender Yulia Efimova. She was subjected to boos from the crowd while rival swimmers took verbal digs. IOC spokesman Mark Adams said the organisation encouraged free speech and had no plans to take action.
