Kei Nishikori of Japan, after winning the final match of the 2014 Rakuten Open Tennis Championships against Milos Raonic of Canada. Nishikori took home the Bronze in Men's singles tennis at the Rio 2016 Olympic games. Koji Watanabe / Getty Images Yelena Isinbayeva from Russia on the gold me…

Ballin’. Well, first off, the U.S. Women's Basketball Team hasn't lost a single Olympic game since 1992 That's 47 straight Olympic basketball games and counting. Rick Stewart / Getty Images The youngest player on the team, Breanna Stewart, wasn't even born the last time the U.S…

Ballin’. Well, first off, the U.S. Women's Basketball Team hasn't lost a single Olympic game since 1992 That's 47 straight Olympic basketball games and counting. Rick Stewart / Getty Images The youngest player on the team, Breanna Stewart, wasn't even born the last time the U.S…

Spoiler: He’s really, really, fast. Usain Bolt is fast, but he is actually slower than most other sprinters at the start. In the 2016 Rio Olympic 100 meter final on Sunday his reaction time was 0.155, making it the second slowest in a field of eight. Michael Kappeler / AFP / Getty Images Howe…

Diamond rings > Olympic rings. Something's a little...different...about the Olympics this year, and you might've noticed it. Dmitri Lovetsky / AP It's the veritable spate —spate, I tell you! — of marriage proposals, the likes of which we've maybe never seen in another Olympi…

Oh, to have flexibility. This picture of a Brazilian gymnast, Jade Barbosa, casually hanging off a playground thing: WHAT THE? instagram.com This picture of Brazilian gymnast, Lorrane Dos Santos, casually doing a split on a playground thing: THAT WOULD LITERALLY KILL ME. instagram.com This…

The dive landed him in last place. Malaysian diver Ahmad Amsyar Azman had his Olympic dreams crushed on Monday after he belly flopped into the water. Marcos Brindicci / Reuters It seemed to be going OK at first... NBC / Via Twitter: @NBCOlympics But things went south quickly. NBC / Via Twi…