Olympics News

Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu has been named the British Olympic Association's athlete of the year at the UK Athletics' awards in Solihull.

Skiing great Hermann Maier won his first World Cup race in almost three years as he claimed the super-G at Lake Louise in Canada on Sunday.

Canadian Olivier Jean won a gold medal in the 500 metres at a World Cup short track speedskating event on Sunday.

Canadian brakewoman Jennifer Cionetti, left, and pilot Helen Upperton celebrate their World Cup bobsleigh victory Saturday in Winterberg, Germany.

Ethiopian great Haile Gebrselassie won the inaugural 15-kilometre Great Australian Run in 42 minutes 40 seconds on Sunday.

KUUSAMO: Ola Vigen Hattestad led a Norwegian sweep in the men's cross-country World Cup ski sprint opener, and Petra Majdic of Slovenia won the women's event Saturday.

Gymnastics, wrestling and volleyball were among five Olympic sports cited by the World Anti-Doping Agency for failing to implement consistent out-of-competition testing programs.

Erik Guay of Canada glides toward the finish area during his FIS Ski World Cup men's downhill.

A bronze-medal performance at the NHK Trophy didn't sit well with the Canadian pairs team of Jessica Dube and Bryce Davison.

Athens champion Halkia banned for two years ATHENS: Greece's former 400m hurdles Olympic champion Fani Halkia has been handed a two-year ban for her positive dope test at the Beijing Games, the Greek athletics ...

Bode Miller has set the pace in each of the first two training runs for this weekend's downhill at Lake Louise.

DENVER - Could Denver bid for the Winter Olympics in 2018? Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter says that if Chicago does not receive the 2016 Summer Games, Denver could be a viable candidate for the Winter Olympics two ...

The City of Vancouver unveiled its planned changes to traffic during the 2010 Olympic Games on Tuesday.

The IAAF appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Thursday against doping bans given to seven leading female Russian athletes, saying the suspensions are not severe enough.

Taken over a year apart, 'before and after' pictures show how the main venues for the 2012 Games have compared over the course of a year.

Four men and a woman have been arrested in Britain in connection with a Beijing Olympic ticket scam whose victims included the parents of gold medallist Rebecca Adlington.

A former University of Illinois gymnastics coach has been charged with secretly videotaping a gymnast in a campus locker room.

After winning his sixth gold medal of the Beijing Olympics, swimmer Michael Phelps says he feared he wouldn't be strong enough for a seventh, much less an eighth, to break Mark Spitz's record.

Bode Miller of the USA soars down the course on his way to the fastest time in the first training run for the Lake Louise World Cup Alpine ski race in Lake Louise, Alberta on Wednesday Nov.

The Chinese decision, announced by the would-be summit host France, was a dramatic example of the lengths to which Beijing will go to try to internationally isolate the Dalai Lama, a 1989 Nobel Peace Prize ...