Summer Olympic News

Organisers said around 27,000 people had signed up for the weekend marathon festival which started on Saturday with a 10K and 3K junior race.

Edinburgh's student rowers will have bragging rights for the next year as they beat rivals Glasgow in the main events of their annual boat race.

Dortmund head coach Juergen Klopp reacts during a training session at Wembley Stadium in London, Friday May 24, 2013.

In this Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009 file photo, Columbus Crew's Robbie Rogers celebrates after scoring against the San Jose Earthquakes during the second half of an MLS soccer match in San Francisco.

8, 2009 file photo, Columbus Crew's Robbie Rogers celebrates after scoring against the San Jose Earthquakes during the second half of an MLS soccer match in San Francisco.

Olympic boxing gold medallist Nicola Adams, war hero and the first black Tottenham Hotspur football player, Walter D. Tull, and the 'father of Meteorology', Luke Howard, have been immortalised with life-size portraits.

Lucas Matthysse of Argentina is 34-2 with 32 knockouts. With that kind of power, it was only a matter of time before he emerged as a potential superstar.

Over the last few months, during the endurance-athletics off-season, something extraordinary happened: The line began to blur between the health effects of running marathons and eating cheeseburgers.

Howard became the first dual Olympic medallist to row in the Boat Race, when he was stroke of the victorious Oxford crew.

Figures from the world of sailing, dignitaries and wellwishers will bid farewell to the tragic yachtsman, known as Bart, next Friday.

They're sitting atop the National Women's Soccer League's opening-season standings and drawing more than 11,000 fans to home games.

SIR Richard Branson's company is the latest big name to join Dell, AG Barr and Trespass as an official sponsors of the event next July.

SOUTHAMPTON hockey player Alex Danson is celebrating after her Reading side completed a magnificent treble - becoming the first English side to win the European crown and two domestic trophies in the same season.

After a year where football's name has been dragged through the mud by a series of racism controversies, UEFA has announced that players and officials will face a 10-match ban if found guilty of racist abuse.

The U.S. swimming star, who won five gold medals in London, was featured in his own reality show called "What Would Ryan Lochte Do?" He also appeared on talk shows and made TV cameo appearances.

The Arena Football League is taking expansion to a global level with plans to export their 50-yard fields and high-scoring offenses to Asia.

Uefa could impose partial stadium closures and 10-match bans for racism in European football after agreeing to toughen sanctions.

A once-prominent swimming coach who trained thousands of children was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday for sexually abusing one of the girls he instructed.

A look at 10 of the top topics at the French Open, the clay-court Grand Slam tennis tournament that begins Sunday and ends June 9: Rafael Nadal already owns a record seven French Open titles - he broke a tie with Bjorn Borg by winning last year - and is widely considered the favorite to add No.

Wrestling's governing body has "reacted well" and made the necessary changes to give the sport a chance of saving its place in the Olympics, IOC President Jacques Rogge said.