The Rio Olympic Games have a silly sideSTOYAN NENOV/REUTERSA few days into the Rio Olympics, and New Zealand's already on the medals table. Here's some of the lighter tales to come out of this year's Olympic Games. Spotify says the song was streamed more than 40,000 times a day after the Rio Games kicked off. AGE BEFORE YOUTHDYLAN MARTINEZ/REUTERSGymnasts have among the shortest career spans of any athletes and few make it to more than two or, at the very most, three Olympic Games. There was certainly a lot of love in the Rio Olympic Arena for the oldest ever gymnast to compete at a Games and who was a member of the triumphant Unified Team, representing former Soviet republics, on her Olympic debut in 1992.

Source: Stuff August 09, 2016 04:18 UTC