Olympic Volleyball News

Revelstoke skier Lachlan Hicks has been chosen as Revelstoke's official torchbearer and will run the Olympic torch into town when it arrives here on Jan.

Dorothy Franco-Reed remembers hearing the crashes of broken lamps amid the thuds of a volleyball against her bedroom walls.

It seems Kelly Reeves was born to play volleyball at UCLA. Reeves, a Cathedral Catholic High senior, entered the world at the UCLA hospital as the daughter of an alumna who earned All-America honors for the Bruins before winning an Olympic silver medal on the 1984 U.S. women's team.

The three-day event will conclude today in the capital. [China Daily] More than one year after its debut as one of the world's largest Olympic venues, the Bird's Nest remains a financial albatross.

The Tantasqua, Shepherd Hill and Whitinsville Christian volleyball teams have all advanced to postseason play, and with all three squads in different divisions, all three can become District champions.

There are only 1,000 days until the 2012 Olympics starts in spectacular style. Already plans are being put in place to ensure the county's venues and athletes will be hitting the gold standard in time for the opening ceremony on July 27, 2012.

Special Olympics athletes will bowl in Medford Nov. 14 as part of the organization's Fall Regional Games.

FOUR countries are considering basing themselves in High Wycombe for the London 2012 Olympics a ' with more expected to declare their interest soon.

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The expression on Johnathan Botelhoa s face on Tuesday at the Northern Sport Centre belied his thoughts.

AUSTRALIA is in danger of becoming an Olympic Games also-ran, with AOC boss John Coates to today issue a blunt warning about just how far we could fall as a sporting nation.

Making the U.S. Winter Olympic team is no clear-cut deal. Most athletes earn their spots not at Olympic trials, but based on their performances during World Cup events in the months leading up to the Games.

Thompsonite Darion Latchman will set off Olympic torch celebrations in his northern community.

The head of South African organizers for next year's World Cup thinks a successful tournament could lead to the Olympics being hosted on that continent for the first time in 2020.

Chinese sports officials struck a deal to bring the Olympics to Beijing, promising to support Jacques Rogge's bid to head the International Olympic Committee in return for European backing for Beijing's bid, according to a recently released memoir.

The U.S. Olympic Committee officially ended Reno-Tahoe's hopes to host the 2018 Winter Olympics on Friday by not submitting bids for any U.S. cities by Friday's deadline.

Now, look. I've given it a week or so for it to settle down but there's just no getting away from it.

Anyone who argues about which sports deserve to be in the summer Olympic Games has to acknowledge that eccentricity, caprice and politics have influenced choices.

There were no boards, padded or otherwise, or little red cones to round when speedskater Jessica Hewitt first started to slip, slide and glide across the ice.

Bury St Edmunds has been chosen by the Rwandan Olympic team as its pre-Games training camp in 2012.