Olympic Summer Games News

A day after Canada's early exit from the world basketball championship qualifier, head coach Leo Rautins had mixed feelings.3.2

BEIJING: Beijing's Olympic organisers are ploughing through nearly 400 plans for the 2008 Games' ... The opening ceremony of the 2004 Athens Olympics, a three-hour pageant reviewing Greek civilisation, proved a smash hit with viewers all over the world and kicked off a very successful Games.2.7

New Delhi, Aug 29 President A P J Abdul Kalam today gave away the country's highest sporting ... Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was conferred the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for the year 2004 for becoming the first Indian to win individual silver medal at Athens Olympics.2.7

They will be Jerry Colangelo's litmus test, as he fronts the push to return the United States to the top of international basketball.2.7

Korean national table tennis teams were runners-up in the finals yesterday for the 17th Asian Table Tennis Championships, held on Jeju Island.2.7

Palladium-Item photo by Joshua Smith Mike Lopresti of Richmond is a sports writer for Gannett, which owns USA Today and the Palladium--Item, where he got his start as a professional sports journalist.2.7

Leslie Law and William Fox-Pitt lead the home charge for honours at Burghley international horse trials this week.2.9

Jaime Bernal, left, fights Mitchell Foley in the fourth match of the 2005 Fight For AIDS Awareness Amateur Boxing Show held downtown Saturday night.

Thanks to strong arms, swimmer Amanda Beard won three medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.2.7

Tully Bevilaqua is at home in Indiana. That's despite being more than 11,000 miles away from her ... Bevilaqua had wanted to play in the 2004 Athens Olympics so she could defend against U.2

Todd Rogers is willing to eat sand Sunday to claim the Boulder Open. He and partner Sean Scott won in an upset.2.7

Chrysler asked its interns to design new Jeeps for sale in six different major cities next decade, with some interesting results.2.7

Well known locally for the football stadium that bears its name, Bank of America Corp.'s sports sponsorship strategy nationally revolves around big bucks -- an estimated $120 million annually -- and an emphasis ...3.2

Athens Olympic gold medalist Olaf Tufte of Norway carries his boat on his head after the training for the upcoming World Rowing championships at the Nagaragawa International Regatta Course in Gifu, central ...2.9

One year after his Olympic triumph, Hamish Carter has returned to winning form in one of the world's biggest triathlons in Chicago today.2.9

With five gold medals out of ten events, Russia veterans became the biggest winners of the Shooting World Cup Final in rifle and pistol while the other shooting giant China delighted in the emergence of the ...2.7

In 1981 no one outside her hometown of Fairmont, West Virginia, even knew her name.2.7

Today is Sunday, Aug. 28, the 240th day of 2005. There are 125 days left in the year.4.7

They say you can't go home again. For Tracey Larson of Morrisville, that may not be true.2.7

Mark MacDonald's self-assessment was frank. "Honestly, pretty bad, pretty embarrassing," says the ... Brass are busily identifying athletes -- from whatever sport -- who can be fast-tracked into specific events in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.2.9

Last year's successful Olympic Games along with a promotional campaign of the country abroad have led to a bumper tourism season this summer, with extra arrivals expected to carry on in the next few months, ...2.7

The next stage of his professional boxing career will be an interesting test of heavyweight Devin Vargas' pride.3.1

Olympic gold medallist Adam van Koeverden of Oakville, Ont., advanced to a pair of finals at the world flatwater canoe and kayak championships Friday.3.2

A look at the progress of the nine Olympic boxers who represented the United States, listed by their fighting weight in Athens: Rau'Shee Warren : The teenager from Cincinnati is the only Olympian who remained ...2.7

Chased by a bulldog last January while on a training run near his Mira Mesa home, Meb Keflezighi broke into a backward sprint.

Jenna Kayakjuak, who was born blind, recently won two medals at the Canada Summer Games in Regina.2.9

The Indonesian Computer Olympic Team has recorded two major achievement at the 17th Informatics Olympics in Nowy Sacz, Poland, by bringing home three medals -- two silvers and one bronze.2.7

EVEN IF Barry Bonds is back on the field sometime next month, it will have been almost a year ... His goal: to compete in the 2004 Athens Olympics at the age of 40.2.7

Greece is "fully protected" against the threat of bird flu, currently thought to be spreading westward from Asia, Deputy Agricultural Development and Food Minister Alexandros Kontos said yesterday.2.7

The women's team is currently in Switzerland for a ski camp where we have been training on the glaciers at both Zermatt and Saas Fee.2.7

Chris Begg has never been to the Netherlands and his first trip to the land of wooden shoes and windmills won't be all about partying and sightseeing.4.3

Main opposition PASOK leader George Papandreou on Thursday again sharply criticised the government, this time during the first day of a two-day conference of his party's political council in the port town of ...2.7

Tanner Thies goes over a jump at the new BMX track on 21st Avenue South. The new $50,000 course will officially open next spring, but local enthusiasts took a test ride last week.2.7

"It's going to be Coach K," said someone close to the committee. "And it's going to be very interesting because it's not going to go down well with NBA coaches because they will be passed over by a college ...3.2

Ian Walker, Britain's America's Cup skipper in Auckland two years ago, has joined Italy's +39 team as tactician to Iain Percy ahead of the 2007 event.2.9