Olympic Water Polo News

A KENDAL athlete is campaigning to save his Olympic dream after his sporta s funding for the 2012 games was cut.

NEW artist's impressions of the only Olympic facilities to be based in Waltham Forest have been released.

Great Britain's men's handball team are to receive up to 60,000 from the International Olympic Committee .

Dr. Ted Forcum, '08 US Olympic Sports Medicine Team Member and ACA Sports Council President talks about uses of kinesiology tape.

BRISBANE is set to be the new home for Australia's Winter Olympics aerial ski team.

New convention bureau director selected for Champaign county Oct. 21--CHAMPAIGN -- Jayne DeLuce thinks her new job as executive director of the Champaign County Convention & Visitors Bureau should fit her well.

As splashy as the network coverage was for last year's Beijing Games , the ultimate visual coverage of the Olympics regularly has come from sports documentary filmmaker Bud Greenspan, who unveils his 12th such film tonight on Showtime.

The biggest ever Olympics for slightly older people, and in some cases extremely old people, closed on Sunday with pretty much all of the 28,200 competitors proving a point.

Romelda Aiken wins the ball from Katrina Grant during the World Netball Series Final match between Jamaica and New Zealand, Manchester, Oct 11, 2009.

A A 20m swimming pool is holding its first major competition this weekend. Corby's East Midlands International Pool has been chosen as the venue for the National Women's Water Polo Championships.

The Vancouver 2010 Olympics torch-lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia next week will see none of the protests that tarnished the Beijing Games event two years ago, the Greek Olympic Committee said on Thursday.

JOHN LIOUPAS has never been an athlete, but is dreaming of the Olympics. The Sydenham resident is among hundreds of hopefuls who have registered to take part in the Pan Hellenic Games, an Olympic-style tournament which will be held in Melbourne next month.

Inspirational effort: Hooker defied the pain of injury to win the world title. Steve Hooker has been recognised for his remarkable effort in defying a serious leg injury to claim the world pole vault title by becoming the first sportsperson to win the Don Award for the second time.

Other Sports Remarkable effort ... Hooker wins second Don Award. AP Pole Vaulter Steve Hooker wins Don Award for the second time Steve Hooker has been recognised for his remarkable effort in defying a serious thigh injury to claim the world pole vault title by becoming the first sportsperson to win the Don Award for the second time.

SYDNEY: Former Olympic champions are among more than 28,000 competitors from 95 countries gathering here for the seventh World Masters Games, getting underway on Saturday .

Allison Littlejohn participates in swimming and water polo at Saline High School.

On Friday afternoon, thousands of Chicagoans watched in stunned silence as the Second City, long thought to be the overwhelming favorite to be awarded the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, was the first city to be eliminated from contention.

Reuters Sure, Chicago lost the Olympics, but Cleveland nabbed the Gay Games on Friday.

Rio de Janeiro, which won the vote to host the 2016 Olympic Games on Friday, had the least-prepared infrastructure of the four cities competing for the spot.

Finally, South America gets an Olympics. The 2016 Games are going to Rio de Janeiro.