Olympic Summer Games News

Heptathlon silver medalist Lyudmila Blonska has been temporarily suspended pending a final ruling in her doping case at the Beijing Olympics.

International Olympic Committee spokeswoman Giselle Davies says the Ukrainian athlete has been removed from the start list for Friday's long jump final.

The IOC's disciplinary commission met to hear her case Thursday and decided to provisionally suspend her. The IOC's ruling executive board will issue its final ruling Friday.

Blonska, who finished second in the heptathlon last Saturday, tested positive for a banned substance. If found guilty of doping, she will be stripped of the medal and expelled from the games.

Wang Chen of the United States has defeated Kim Kyung-ah of South Korea to become the first American in Olympic table tennis history to reach the quarterfinals.

The Chinese-born Wang dropped to her knees after the 4-3 win Thursday and cried into a towel. She won by scores of 11-9, 9-11, 11-8, 10-12, 6-11, 11-9, 11-5.

Table tennis has been an Olympic sport since 1988.

Wang is ranked No. 23 and next faces sixth-ranked Li Jia Wei of Singapore on Thursday night.

Gao Jun of the U.S. was eliminated from women's singles, losing 4-3 to Wu Xue of the Dominican Republic.

Bronze medallist Rohullah Nikpai receives his medal during the medal ceremony for the men's -58kg taekwando competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games yesterday KABUL: President Hamid Karzai called ...

U.S. women's basketball team prepare to face their old foes Russia in the Olympic semi-finals on Thursday.

Daily photos from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by Newsweek photographer Mike Powell.

Even Phelps himself, in the first couple of seconds after the finish, appeared to be subdued knowing/believing that he lost the race. But something happened there, and the official timekeeper of the event OMEGA showed that Phelps supposedly won by 0.01 of a second. That is 100th part of one second, and the lowest margin of difference allowed in the official swimming contests.

Diane Pucin, who's been blogging live from the noisy Capital Gymnasium in Beijing, reports that the Americans hung tough Wednesday night and won in five sets, 20-25, 25-23, 21-25, 25-18, 15-12, over Serbia.

The U.S. men's basketball team advanced to the Beijing Olympic semifinals by beating Australia 116-85 at the Beijing Olympic Basketball Gymnasium on Wednesday.

Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt broke one of the most revered world records on the books Wednesday night when he flew down the track in the 200-meter final at the Bird’s Nest in an astounding 19.30 seconds.

World champion Ramazan Sahin of Turkey has won the Olympic freestyle wrestling gold medal at 66 kilograms by scoring a tight victory over Andriy Stadnik of Ukraine.

Sahin, also the European champion, won 2-2, 2-1, 2-2 on Wednesday. He lost the first period on a tiebreaker because Stadnik scored the final points of the period, but won the third when he scored last.

Stadnik, leading 2-0 in the third, had Sahin in a gut wrench along the edge of the mat but Sahin managed to tilt Stadnik's shoulders toward the mat for exposure while working his way out from the bottom position.

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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.