Brazil's sports minister has predicted the country will have more than enough hotel rooms for the 2014 World Cup and will avoid a repeat of the price gouging that occurred ahead of last year's UN conference in Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics organisers have been warned that they needed to push ahead with their preparations because time was an issue, the International Olympic Committee said.
Katie Taylor has confirmed that she will remain an amateur boxer and defend her title at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Usain Bolt has declared that he plans to defend his Olympic sprint titles at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
Billy Walsh has encouraged John Joe Nevin to turn down the chance to go professional and look to winning a gold medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Ireland's luckless Laser Radial sailor Annalise Murphy is ready to put her London disappointment behind her to focus on winning gold at the next Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
After striving to qualify for the 400 metres at the London Olympics for six years, Oscar Pistorius believes he will now be better placed to run at the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016.
Headguards are set to be scrapped for the next Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro under new rules announced by amateur boxing's world governing body AIBA.
Ireland's Arthur Lanigan-O'Keeffe completed an excellent competition to finish 20th in World Cup 2 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Rio de Janeiro will stage the 2014 World Cup final, FIFA revealed on Thursday as it revealed the venues for the fixtures at the tournament.
Cork-born Billy Twomey racked up Ireland's second third place at the Athina Onassis International Horse Show in Rio de Janeiro late on Friday night.
Tippeary's Denis Lynch and Cork's Billy Twomey will be amongst the world's top 30 show jumpers who compete in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this weekend in the final leg of the 2010 Global Champions' Tour.
On the day golf was voted back into the Olympics Sergio Garcia says he wants to make it not simply to Rio de Janeiro in 2016, but to the two Games after that as well.
Rio De Janeiro has been selected as the host city for the 2016 Olympics, beating off competition from Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid to secure the prize.
The 'Cidade Maravilhosa' is HOT, heavily populated and has some of the world's greatest beaches (and it's about €1.20 for a pint).
Rio de Janeiro's hopes of becoming the first South American host of the Olympics have been boosted after the city appeared to emerge with the fewest criticisms from the IOC's evaluation of the four contenders for 2016.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has announced Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Manaus, Fortaleza, Natal, Recife, Salvador, Brasilia, Cuiaba, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba and Porto Alegre will be the 12 cities to host the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Green Dragon crossed the finish line off Rio de Janeiro at 6.59.40pm GMT on Saturday, cheered on by crowds of locals that lined the shore to the marina.
Green Dragon is just 438 miles from Rio de Janeiro and the end of an epic leg, the longest ever in the history of the Volvo Ocean Race.
Brazilian number 10 Marta is the only woman who has been given the privilege of dipping her feet in cement and leaving her footprints in the Walk of Fame in front of Rio de Janeiro's Maracana stadium.