Summer Olympics News

Victoria Pendleton's intense rivalry with Australian Anna Meares will flare up again in London next weekend as a rehearsal for their Olympic showdown in August.

The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has launched Great Britain's biggest ever international advertising campaign.

A 17-year-old Stettler woman has died and a 19-year-old man faces charges after a pickup truck swerved off the road and hit a grove of trees early Saturday morning.

Gold medal goddesses Misty May-Treanor and partner Kerri Walsh are targeting another beach volleyball win at the Summer Olympics in London.

JJ Petersen of Great Falls races down the course of the Giant Solemn Race during the 2012 CMR Area Winter Games on Friday at Showdown Ski Area on Porphyry Peak.

In the past couple of weeks, the pettiness - bordering on anti-Americanism - of the right-wingers has been a sight to behold.

TEAM GB diver Tom Daley has shown that the stress of preparing for the London Olympics doesn't seem to be getting him down too much, by releasing a tongue-in-cheek music video.A The film has Daley and his teammates on a beach, miming and dancing along to LMFAO's hit song Sexy And I Know It while sporting an assortment of skimpy swimwear.

CALGARY Two members of the famed Crazy Canucks will lead the Canadian team into the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

RICHARD Egington believes his best chance of gold in London 2012 will depend on his own performance - irrespective of which boat he ends up in.

Every former athlete who has represented Great Britain at the Paralympics is to be given free tickets to the London Games.

Besides going after a medal in the boxing ring at the London Olympics, Sadaf Rahimi will be taking a few punches in the fight for equal rights for Afghan women.

Marcus Browne, right, will be in action at the Daily News Golden Gloves on Feb. 17 at Tottenville High School.

Controversial butterfly ace Nick D'Arcy believes his London Olympic selection fate is in his own hands even though officials have yet to announce a decision on the bankrupt swimmer's eligibility.

Brakeman Jess Lumsden, left, and pilot Lyndon Rush, right, have made the transition from football to bobsleigh.

Pole vaulter Holly Bleasdale continued her fine start to Olympic year after narrowly losing to world record holder Yelena Isinbaeva in an indoor event.

Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images Stevenson, the welterweight world champion and the favourite for Olympic gold, became Britain's first Olympic medallist in the sport at Beijing in 2008, winning bronze.

A multi-million pound international campaign has been launched to entice visitors to the UK.

AS a 10-year-old growing up in West Moors , Alison Knowles had a clear vision. She was going to be an Olympian.

The two Premier League giants hope to expand their followings in the Asian economic powerhouse by playing a glamour pre-season match at the Bird's Nest Olympic stadium Arsenal and Manchester City are to contest a pre-season match in Beijing in the summer, Chinese officials have confirmed.

The third and final installment of Ponoka's young athletes at the Alberta Winter Games Feb.