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2016-08-30Little League baseball players from Maine-Endwell, New York, celebrate after they beat a team from South Korea to win the Little League World Series on Sunday, August 28. It's the first American team to win the competition since 2011.
2016-08-30If you've ever dreamed of traveling the world and exploring little-known locations, then the MORPHotel might be the holiday of the future for you.
2016-08-25Serena Williams is currently tied on 22 grand slam wins with Steffi Graf -- a joint-Open era record -- but can move ahead of the German with victory at this year's US Open.
2016-08-23Team GB arrived home Tuesday on a gold-nosed aircraft appropriately named "victoRIOus."
2016-08-23Fireworks explode over Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium during the closing ceremony on Sunday, August 21.
2016-08-22Thousands of Fijians turned out to greet the men's rugby sevens team which returned home with Olympic gold.
2016-08-22People wave flags from Brazil, the United States and Colombia during the Olympics closing ceremony at Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, August 21.
2016-08-21The U.S. basketball team celebrates after defeating Serbia in the gold medal game on Sunday, August 21. The Americans' victory marks their third straight Olympic gold.
2016-08-20American runner Allyson Felix celebrates as she crosses the finish line to win the women's 4x400-meter relay final on Saturday, August 20. The win gives Felix her 6th career gold.
2016-08-19Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates winning gold in the 4x100 relay on Friday, August 19. The victory caps off an unprecedented "triple-triple": three straight Olympic golds in the 100 meters, the 200 meters and the 4x100.
2016-08-18Jamaica's Usain Bolt crosses the finish line to win the 200 meters for the third consecutive Olympics on Thursday, August 18. Bolt has also won three straight golds in the 100 meters.
2016-08-17Canada's Andre De Grasse, left, and Jamaica's Usain Bolt smile at each other during a 200-meter semifinal on Wednesday, August 17. Bolt finished first, just in front of De Grasse.
2016-08-17Andre Agassi is pictured during his breakthrough year in 1988, when he reached the semifinals of the French Open and the U.S. Open, sporting highlights and a mullet.
2016-08-16Canada's Derek Drouin clears the bar on his way to winning gold in the high jump on Tuesday, August 16.
2016-08-16Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt looks back at his competitors during a 100-meter semifinal on Sunday, August 14. Bolt won the final a short time later, becoming the first man in history to win the 100 meters at three straight Olympic Games.
2016-08-15Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas dives over the finish line to win gold in the 400 meters on Monday, August 15. She edged American Allyson Felix by .07 seconds.
2016-08-14Usain Bolt of Jamaica wins the men's 100m final, becoming the first Olympic sprinter to win three consecutive 100-meter gold medals.
2016-08-13Jamaica's Elaine Thompson, second from top, wins the 100-meter final on Saturday, August 13. Third-placed teammate Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce fell short in her bid to win the event for a record third successive Olympics.
2016-08-12Judoka Majlinda Kelmendi won Kosovo's first Olympics medal ever, in the first year the country has been represented at the Olympics. (Oh, and she won gold.)
2016-08-12U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky celebrates after setting a new world record in the 800-meter freestyle on Friday, August 12. It was her fourth gold medal in Rio and the fifth of her Olympic career. She also won the 800 free in London four years ago.
2016-08-12Phelps wins eight gold medals in Beijing: Swimmer Michael Phelps, right, became the first athlete to win eight gold medals in one Olympics when he helped the United States win the 4x100 medley in 2008. Here, he celebrates with Garrett Weber-Gale after a v
2016-08-12Chinese synchronized divers Aisen Chen and Yue Lin splash into the pool Monday, August 8, on their way to winning the Olympic gold medal in the 10-meter platform event. "I put my camera where I wanted, where I thought they were going to fall, and the
2016-08-11U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps celebrates his 22nd Olympic gold medal after he won the 200-meter individual medley on Thursday, August 11. This is the fourth straight Olympics that Phelps has won the event.
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2016-08-10Katie Ledecky is congratulated by her U.S. teammates Allison Schmitt, Leah Smith and Emily DiRado after swimming the anchor leg of the 4x200 freestyle on Wednesday, August 10. The gold medal is Ledecky's third of the Rio Games.
2016-08-10South Korean gymnast Lee Eun-ju takes a selfie with North Korean gymnast Hong Un-jong during training on Thursday, August 4. Relations have been frosty between the North and South since its division following the end of World War II, but geopolitics were
2016-08-10You may already know that U.S. Olympic gold medal gymnast Simone Biles has a signature move named after her called "The Biles." In fact Biles has an entire catalog of specialized maneuvers at her command when she performs a floor exercise, or on
2016-08-09U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, gestures after winning the 200-meter butterfly on Tuesday, August 9. It was the 20th gold medal of his Olympic career. Later in the night, Phelps won his 21st gold -- and his 25th medal
2016-08-09Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima, a former Brazilian long-distance runner, lights the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, August 5. De Lima was leading the Olympic marathon in 2004 when he was attacked by a protester near t
2016-08-08The exterior of Hoppegarten racetrack on the eastern outskirts of Berlin, Germany.
2016-08-08Lilly King, right, celebrates with American teammate Katie Meili after winning the 100-meter breaststroke on Monday, August 8. Leading up to the final, King had called out Russian rival Yulia Efimova, who faced two bans for performance-enhancing drugs bef
2016-08-07Alex Rodriguez, New York Yankees infielder, announced Sunday that he will be retiring from playing baseball on Friday, August 12. While a decorated player, Rodriguez's career has also been dogged by controversy.
2016-08-07Michael Phelps and Caeleb Dressel of United States celebrate their win the men's 4 x 100m freestyle relay on day 2 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Sunday, August 7.
2016-08-07A Brazilian fan waves the national flag during the first day of the Olympic beach volleyball competition. Security checks meant long queues for those entering, and left the venue looking half empty for the early matches.
2016-08-06Kerri Walsh Jennings celebrates with her teammate April Ross after winning a beach volleyball match against Australia, 21-14, 21-13, at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, early in the morning on Sunday August 7.
2016-08-06Satellite images, from 2012 to today, show the construction of the Barra Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro.
2016-08-05Fireworks explode over the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro at the end of the opening ceremony on Friday, August 5.
2016-08-05The Athletes' Village, where the soon-to-be heroes of Rio 2016 will stay for the Olympic Games.
2016-08-04Rio, 2016: Nothing to see here, just ... wait, is that the Russian flag? Uniform haters dinged this year's Ralph Lauren offerings because the jaunty patriotic striped top resembles a certain rival country's banner, which has horizontal white, bl
2016-08-04U.S. track star Jesse Owens stands atop the medal stand after he won the long jump at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. It was one of four gold medals that Owens won at the Berlin Games, which took place during the rule of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. Hitler
2016-08-04The Olympic Stadium saw its first action of Rio 2016 Wednesday, two days before Friday's Opening Ceremony.
2016-08-03Retired Brazilian volleyball player Maria Isabel Barroso Salgado carries the Olympic torch in front of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, August 5. The opening ceremony will be held at the Maracana Stadium on Friday night.
2016-08-03Rio mayor Eduardo Paes carries the Olympic torch after its arrival at the Naval Academy on Guanabara Bay, ahead of Friday's opening ceremony.
2016-08-03Who will be the Brazilian stars of the Olympics?
2016-08-03On your marks, set, go ... the race is on for Olympic gold. But just how much can a gold medal be worth?
2016-08-02Ben Ainslie is hoping his team's wide-ranging use of non-sailing technology will help Land Rover BAR become Britain's first America's Cup champion in 2017.
2016-08-02Jimmy Walker pumps his fist after winning the PGA Championship with a par putt on the last hole Sunday, July 31. It was the first major title for Walker, who edged Jason Day by one shot at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey.
2016-08-02Team USA center Brittney Griner (far right) will try and lead her team to its sixth consecutive Olympic gold in Rio 2016.