Olympic Summer Games News

BEIJING, China -- This one was close. Caitlin Lowe singled home the game's first run in the ninth inning, Crystl Bustos added a three-run homer and the United States softball team escaped a tough game against ...

Henry Cejudo of US celebrates victory during the men's freestyle 55kg gold medal match at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games wrestling event in Beijing, China, Aug.

Clear some more space in that pile of pretty Olympic medal boxes. Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin are bringing home more loot, including a gorgeous gold of Johnson's very own.

NBA Commissioner David Stern weighs in on the Dream Team of '92 versus the Redeem Team of '08. And he tells the AP that India may be the next place for basketball to take hold.

Team USA has proven most adept at laying eggs at this appropriately named venue.

Shawn Johnson's smile was a thousand times wider than the balance beam she had just conquered Tuesday night.

Gymnast Nastia Liukin was promoted to the women's Olympic squad after an impressive performance at the trials in June.

Liukin loses tiebreaker to He; China's great track hope Liu Xiang pulls out; China takes gold in men's rings; U.S. baseball wins feisty game; U.S. men's water polo into semis; Redeem Team crushes Germansl U.S. ...

Britain has won the men's team pursuit gold medal at the Laoshan Velodrome, knocking nearly two seconds off the world record it set a day earlier.

The team of Ed Clancy, Paul Manning, Geraint Thomas and individual pursuit gold-medalist Bradley Wiggins finished the 4,000 meters in 3 minutes, 53.314 seconds Monday, beating silver-medalist Denmark in the final.

New Zealand beat archrival Australia to take the bronze medal.

Britain has now won 12 gold medals in Beijing, the most of any Olympics since 1920.

Emma Snowsill of Australia has won the Olympic women's triathlon, pulling away toward the beginning of the 10-kilometer run to finish over a minute ahead of the field.

Vanessa Fernandes of Portugal won the silver, and Emma Moffatt of Australia came across the finish line about 20 seconds later for the bronze.

Four years ago, Australia's Loretta Harrop ran alone for over a half-hour before being passed only a few seconds away from the finish by Kate Allen. This year, Snowsill had time to grab a flag, pull up and wave for a bit before strolling across.

A full-scale outbreak of old-fashioned Anglo-Australian hostility - and a dose of premature crowing - has erupted in London after Britain unexpectedly overtook the Aussies in the Olympic gold medal tally over ...

Rafael Nadal of Spain returns the ball during the men's singles gold medal match of Beijing Olympic Games tennis event against Fernando Gonzalez of Chile in Beijing, China, Aug.

When it comes to Olympic sprints, nobody does it better than the Jamaicans. Yeah, mon.

The Caribbean island of 2.8 million people capped the first gold-medal double of men's and women's 100-meter dashes since 1988 with a rare gold-silver-silver in the women's race. It also was the first medals sweep of any 100 since 1912, and the first ever for the women's 100 in any Olympics or world championship. After never winning Olympic gold in the 100, Jamaica got two in as many days.

Shelly-Ann Fraser won the women's dash Sunday, pumping her fist as she was clocked in 10.78 seconds. Teammates Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart finished in a dead heat for the silver, 0.20 second back _ the same margin Jamaica's Usain Bolt won by Friday night when he hot-dogged to the finish in 9.69.

Chinese diver Guo Jingjing competes during the women's 3m springboard final at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in the National Aquatics Center, also known as the Water Cube in Beijing, China, Aug.

Romania's Constantina Tomescu-Dita turned the Olympic marathon into a one-woman race.

Michael Phelps swam his way into sporting immortality on Sunday by winning his eighth gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.

Usain Bolt of Jamaica, third right, reacts as he wins the men's 100-meter final with a world record... Usain Bolt of Jamaica, third right, reacts as he wins the men's 100-meter final with a world record in ...

Kelly Sotherton was forced to settle for fifth place in the Olympic heptathlon after a disappointing performance in Beijing.

The Chinese people have very good reason to celebrate how the Olympic Games have gone so far - and what they mean for the world's most populous nation.

Kobe Bryant, of the United States, goes up for a dunk against Spain during their preliminary round basketball game at the Beijing Games on Saturday.