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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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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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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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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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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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'Aesthetics over athletics' in women's sport coverage
20 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Nine of NZ's 15 medals have been won by women. But *[Megan Whelan finds the coverage is not always just about their performance.
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An Olympics guide for the unsporty, uninformed and uninterested
19 Aug 2016Possess as much sporting knowledge as a turnip? Veronica Schmidt gives you the information you need to function in society without disgracing yourself.
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$30k Rio trip for Auckland Council staff
19 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Two managers from an Auckland Council agency are on a week-long trip to the Olympic Games - at a cost of $30,000.
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US swimmers lied about robbery - Brazilian police
19 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Four US Olympic swimmers were lying about being robbed, and vandalised a petrol station, Brazilian police say.
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US swimmers stopped at airport as robbery investigation continues
18 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Two American swimmers have been stopped from boarding a flight leaving Rio, following an investigation into their account of being robbed at gunpoint.
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Fan in the stands beats own record at Rio
20 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - At 94 years old, American man Harry Nelson looks to have just beaten his own world record in Rio - for attending the most summer Olympic Games in history.
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Europe's top Olympic official arrested in ticket sale probe
18 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Europe's top Olympic official Pat Hickey is arrested in relation to an investigation into ticket touting.
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After the fall: Praise for Hamblin and D'Agostino
20 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - At the Olympics, the official Olympics account tweeted, it's not always about winning. Video
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Fall friends: US runner pulls out of final, will root for Hamblin
18 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - The US runner who fell, along with New Zealander Nikki Hamblin, while racing has pulled out of the 5000m final and will cheer on Hamblin. Video, Audio
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NZ excelling at the sport of spin in Rio
16 Aug 2016Sports Call - One of the major sports at the Olympic Games appears to be spin, writes Gael Woods in Rio.
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US swimmer Ryan Lochte and three others robbed
15 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - US gold medal winner Ryan Lochte and three other members of the US Olympic swimming team have been robbed at Rio.
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Unplanned 'clean' to blame for green waters
14 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Embarrassing smelly green water at Rio's aquatics centre was because of an unplanned dump of hydrogen peroxide, Olympic organisers say.
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Medallists make their mark on new stamps
14 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Olympic shot putter Valerie Adams appears on a new stamp after winning her third Olympic medal yesterday in Rio.
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Rio highway 'tearing our houses apart'
14 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Residents of a favela near the Olympic Park in Rio are angry about a new highway that is splitting the community and causing houses to fall apart.
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Olympics 2085 - too hot to handle?
14 Aug 2016By 2085 it will be too hot for most big cities in the northern hemisphere to host the Olympic Games, according to a new study out of Auckland.
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Peril, carnage and clickbait in Rio
Mediawatch - The NZ media has portrayed Rio as a place of peril, while outlets without reporters on the ground have seized on clickbait. Audio
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Olympics a test of Bond parents' nerves
12 Aug 2016Rio 2016 Olympics - Back-to-back races for rower Hamish Bond and his brother Alistair had their parents on edge.
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