Rio 2016: Olympics news and updates

6 winners and 5 losers from Rio’s scrappy but impressive opening ceremony

Brazil just might pull this off.

Rio Olympics 2016 opening ceremony: time, how to watch, live stream, and what to expect

The Rio Olympics opening ceremonies get underway at 7 pm Eastern today.

More women will compete in Rio 2016 than in any other Olympics

The number of women in the Olympics has doubled in the last 40 years

The diverse women’s gymnastics team is great. But it will not “calm race relations.”

These three tweets about Simone Biles and her teammates are lessons on how not to think about racism.

Why everyone thinks the Rio Olympics are going to be a disaster

Why Olympics opening ceremonies keep getting better

They've become quite intricate, artistic, and eye-popping over the years, with each one raising the bar from what came before.

The Olympics opening ceremony director is famous for a film about Rio's violence

Fernando Meirelles, who will direct the Olympics opening ceremony, is renowned for making the film City of God.

Watch Sesame Street’s Grover explain the 2016 Rio Olympics refugee team

Grover is cheering for the "super special" Olympic refugee team.

The first modern Olympic Games included one winner who'd never tried his sport before

They started 120 years ago in Athens.

Inside Rio’s favelas, the city's impoverished, neglected neighborhoods

A tour through the Rio you won’t see at the Olympics.

Rio Olympics 2016: flu is a bigger health threat than Zika

The real health risks in Brazil, explained.

Rio Olympics 2016: the CDC says Zika risk is low

Raising my fist at the Olympics cost me friends and my marriage — but I’d do it again

We were standing for something. We were standing for humanity.

The dark side of being an Olympic athlete: it’s a roller-coaster ride

Some days are good; some days are great. Some days are just a disaster.

What it’s like to win an Olympic medal — and then realize you can’t find a job

I was a 26-year-old with no work experience.

I tripped and fell at my final Olympics. It was one of the best things to happen to me.

How public humiliation gave me a much-needed reality check.

What it was like to be an HIV-positive, closeted Olympian in the '80s

My life has been a long journey to self-acceptance.

I'm the guy who was disqualified from the Olympics for eating a pot brownie

But that's not the only thing I am. And Rio is my chance to prove it to the world.

At 17, I'd won two Olympic gold medals for swimming. I still couldn't get a scholarship.

It was 1964. Back then, male athletes were offered sports scholarships, but women were not rewarded in the same way for our achievements.

When the Olympics canceled softball, it erased years of progress for women

I felt like we were taken back 100 years, to a time when women were discouraged from becoming athletes.

2016 Olympics: what Rio doesn’t want the world to see

Ahead of the Olympic Games, Rio is hiding its poor.

For the first time, a team of refugees will compete in the Olympics

Why mass gatherings can lead to outbreaks like the Zika virus

Sports: bringing the world (and its diseases) together.