Rio

Without a doubt the 2016 Rio Olympics was a historic event for African-Americans. Over 28 million people on average witnessed the overload of #BlackGirlMagic daily and if that wasn’t enough, tens of millions streamed the games online, getting an even bigger dose of what black athletes were made of. Check out the individual accomplishments of the black […]

Four-time Olympic Gold medalist and three-time World all-around gymnastics champion Simone Biles, is the most decorated female gymnast. The nineteen-year-old talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about her new book Courage To Soar. “It was pretty easy to open up and tell my story. I grew up in foster care for a couple of years before my […]

Simone Biles tried to treat the 2016 Summer Olympics like just your average ordinary gymnastics meet. So what if the stage and the stakes were different? The floor was still the floor. The vault still the vault. The uneven bars still uneven. The balance beam still a four-inch wide test of nerves. And the 19-year-old […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian police charged American swimmer Ryan Lochte on Thursday with filing a false robbery report over an incident during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. A police statement said Lochte would be informed in the United States so he could decide whether to introduce a defense in Brazil. The indictment […]

  Ryan Lochte has lost two majors sponsors after Speedo USA and Ralph Lauren announced they are dumping the swimmer over a drunken incident during the Rio Olympics that he initially described as an armed robbery. Both companies announced their decisions Monday, one day after the end of the games. Speedo says it will donate […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Ibtihaj Muhammad came to the Olympics determined to show the world that Muslim-American women can excel in sports. Muhammad will return home to New Jersey with proof that she was right. Muhammad, who became the first U.S. Olympian to wear a hijab during competition earlier this week, won a bronze […]

  8/9/16- Did you know there are a handful of HBCU student athletes and alumni that are competing in the 2016 Olympics in Rio? Find out which school holds the title when you listen above!

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Once again, questions are swirling about Kenyan runners and doping, this time at the biggest event of all: the Olympics. Kenya said Sunday it would send its track and field manager home from the Rio de Janeiro Games on the first available flight and show “no mercy” following newspaper allegations […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The nerves were there. Unmistakable. Unavoidable. Standing in the darkened tunnel before entering Rio Olympic Arena on Sunday night, the U.S. women’s gymnastics team felt the pressure that comes not from outside expectations but those held within. Then the lights came on. And just like that, the young women in […]

Giancarlo Esposito, Andre Braugher and James Earl Jones are among the talent whose voices will accent NBC’s coverage of the Rio Olympics.   Esposito, also starring in Netflix’s Baz Luhrmann series “The Get Down,” will have the honor of narrating NBC’s 5-minute short preceding coverage of tonight’s opening ceremony. Titled “The Most Beautiful Things In The […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local): 12:40 p.m. The U.S. men’s and women’s basketball teams arrived in Rio de Janeiro Wednesday to compete at the Olympic games. The men’s team was taken to the Port of Rio, where the players boarded a cruise […]