Olympic Summer Games News

International hockey star Alex Danson inspired some potential stars of the future on a visit to Bognor Regis Community College.

Jamaican Glen Mills has resigned as head coach of the national athletics team, local media reported on Friday.

China plans to hold a robot Olympics next June with events including combat, dancing and track and field, state-run media said late Wednesday.

When the Olympics hosted by Beijing ended, a collector snapped up the 5,000 condoms left over from the 100,000 distributed free to athletes.

This is an Aug. 15, 2008, file photo showing Taylor Phinney, of the United States, competing during a cycling men's individual pursuit qualifying event, at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Toronto gets its Pan Am games face on Mayor and officials involved in Pan Am Games bid en route to Mexico, cautiously hopeful of success, but wary of long legacy of disappointment Jennifer Lewington Published on Thursday, Nov.

Melanie Oudin has the bright lights on her again. Oudin surged from nowhere to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals in September.

Main Category: Sports Medicine / Fitness Also Included In: IT / Internet / E-mail Article Date: 05 Nov 2009 A study by six researchers, including a University of Colorado at Boulder associate professor and his former doctoral student, shows that amputees who use running-specific prosthetic legs have no performance advantage over counterparts who ...

The expected tourist boom from the 2012 Olympic Games in London could turn into a visitor slump, tour operators have warned.

Two-time world champion Emma Carney has called on Triathlon Australia to step up the heart testing of its best athletes.

Ralph Lauren's affinity for Americana will be on full display on athletes at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver - complete with red, white and blue, stars-and-stripes flags and, of course, polo ponies.

Zhang Yimou says his first movie in three years has shades of comedian Stephen Chow's outlandish humor and marks the first time the "Raise the Red Lantern" director shot in digital format.

Chinese officials continue to struggle to find uses for the Bird's Nest Stadium, the iconic centerpiece of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Beijing's blood bank has seen dramatic decline in storage as fewer people visit the street blood donation buses due to the cold weather and A/H1N1 flu epidemic.

The Scottish Rugby Union has told the International Rugby Board that it is interested in submitting a bid to host the Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2013.

BEIJING'S Bird's Nest stadium has been transformed into a motor racing track, with some of the world's top drivers gearing up to compete in the 2009 Race of Champions here on Wednesday.

The leaders of the U.S. Olympic Committee are going through the kind of year that won't look good on their resumes.

Britain's top sports body has turned to the International Olympic Committee to resolve a dispute with Vancouver 2010 organizers over what the U.K. officials consider unfair restrictions on video cameras to be used by their athletes for analyzing tactics and ice conditions during February's Winter Games.

Bejing Olympic bronze medallist Anthony Terras claimed the men's skeet title at the ongoing ISSF World Cup Final here on Monday.

"Swoosh!" describes the sound heard over China as Nike reorganized itself in August to better exploit opportunities it sees there.