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Association football, usually known simply as football or soccer, has been included in every Olympiad except 1896 and 1932 as a men's competition sport.
Read More at Wikipedia ›One of the world's largest open-air landfills, a vast, seaside mountain of trash where thousands of people have made a living sorting through the debris by hand, will close this weekend after 34 years in malodorous service.
Long a symbol of ill-conceived urban planning and environmental negligence, Rio de Janeiro's Jardim Gramacho dump is being transformed into a vast facility that will harness the greenhouse gases generated by the rotting rubbish and turn them into fuel capable of heating homes and powering cars. Environmentalists had blamed Gramacho for the high levels of pollution in Rio's once pristine Guanabara Bay, where tons of run-off from the garbage had leaked.Less clear is what will happen to the more than 1,700 people who worked at the site, scaling hills of fresh, fly- and vulture-covered trash to pluck recyclable plastic, paper and metal from the 9,000 tons of detritus once dumped there daily. Known as "catadores" in Portuguese, the trash pickers will receive a lump-sum pa...FIFA President Sepp Blatter's anti-corruption drive hit another delay on Tuesday, even as soccer's world governing body appointed the first woman to its inner circle...
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One day, the small espresso shop near the site of the London Games was the "Olympic" cafe. The next day, it was the "Lympic."So where did the "O'' go?The manager won...
British sailing hero Ben Ainslie kicked off the torch relay for the 2012 London Olympics on Saturday with a stroll through teary, flag-waving crowds who cheered the ...
LAND'S END, England (AP) — British sailing hero Ben Ainslie kicked off the torch relay for the 2012 London Olympics on Saturday with a stroll through teary, flag-wav...
Former world equestrian champion Zara Phillips carried the Olympic torch on horseback across the storied Cheltenham racecourse on Wednesday, as thousands of screamin...
An international delivery service is turning to a team of runners to beat the London Olympics crush.With close to 5 million visitors expected for the July 27 to Aug....
Brazil coach Mano Menezes did not picked Ronaldinho for exhibitions ahead of the London Olympics, limiting the player's chance of making it to the games.Neymar, Alex...
The Women's Professional Soccer league has folded after three seasons.The WPS had canceled the 2012 season in January, at the time hoping to return next year."We sin...
Moving to Rio, I had visions of paradise, of a sprawling apartment with panoramic views over a palm-lined beach.Instead, I found myself plunged into the inferno of o...
Brazil had its way with the U.S. soccer team, with the stars in the famous yellow jerseys dribbling past the Americans and generally pushing them around for the firs...
Doha and Baku were eliminated from the race for the 2020 Olympics on Wednesday as the IOC trimmed the field of candidates from five cities to three.Tokyo, Madrid and...
Six newcomers including high-scoring Sydney Leroux will join a veteran cast as the United States women's soccer team seeks its third consecutive Olympic gold medal, ...
Organizers of the 2012 Olympics say soccer star David Beckham is bringing the Olympic flame back from Greece as the torch begins an 8,000 mile (12,875km) tour across...
The field of candidates for the 2020 Summer Olympics could be reduced from five to three, with Doha and Baku in danger of missing the cut.Tokyo, Istanbul and Madrid ...
Sepp Blatter said Tuesday he expects the FIFA Congress of world soccer nations to be a lot calmer than the last one."I am an optimist. I am sure it is a very positiv...
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