Olympics
Rogge: London Olympics 'really very good'
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge praised the London Olympics on Wednesday as "really very good games."
Italy's Schwazer says he hid EPO use from Kostner
ROME _ The 2008 Olympic race walk champion who was expelled from the London Games for doping broke down in tears while recounting how he hid the banned substance in the home he was sharing with star figure skater Carolina Kostner. "I made a huge error," Alex Schwazer says. "And I can only repeat, I'm sorry."
German weightlifter OK after barbell accident
It helps to have a thick neck if you're going to drop a 432-pound barbell on it.
US Soccer wants women's national teamers at home
U.S. Soccer would prefer to have Hope Solo, Alex Morgan and the rest of the players on the women's national team playing at home rather than abroad. The hard part is figuring out the best way to make that happen.
Aussies sail laps of honor to take Olympic gold
Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen of Australia sailed three laps of honor Wednesday to collect their Olympic gold medals in the 49er skiff class.
Mile legend Bannister attends Olympic 1,500 final
Roger Bannister will forever be remembered for four laps around the track.
Golden mailbox for Olympic champ Ennis defaced
Civic officials say vandals have defaced a mailbox that was painted gold to celebrate Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis.
Hungary wins Olympic gold in women's K-4 500
Hungary ended the 16-year dominance of Germany in the women's 500-meter K-4 event at the Olympics by winning gold Wednesday at Dorney Lake.
Hungary wins Olympic canoeing in men's K-2 1,000
Hungary won Olympic gold in canoeing Wednesday, capturing the men's 1,000-meter K-2 in a photo finish by holding off fast-closing Portugal.
Norway's Larsen wins Olympic canoeing gold
Norwegian canoer Eirik Veras Larsen reclaimed the Olympic title in the men's 1,000-meter K-1 on Wednesday, overhauling Adam van Koeverden of Canada in a tight finish to win his country's first gold of the London Games.
Germany's Brendel wins canoeing gold at Olympics
Sebastian Brendel of Germany won Olympic gold in the 1,000-meter C-1 on Wednesday, adding to the titles he captured at the last three European championships.
US women hoops face tougher challenge with Aussies
Suffocating, smothering and down right stingy. The U.S. women's basketball team used a dominant defensive effort to advance to the Olympic semifinals.
US women get shot at 1st Olympic water polo gold
Four years ago, Maggie Steffens watched from the stands as her sister Jessica and the rest of the U.S. women's water polo team fell one goal short against the Netherlands in the final of the Beijing Olympics.
US men shut out in Olympic boxing
The U.S. men's boxing team is headed home from an Olympics empty-handed for the first time.
Column: Team GB takes seat, wins medals
Have a seat, Britain. You might not like what you're about to hear.
US men 'ready' for Olympic hoop quarterfinals
Three games from gold, the U.S. men's Olympic basketball team believes its best is still to come.
China sheds tears over Liu's crash into 1st hurdle
They watched, anguished, and they cried and commiserated _ on social media, on the streets of the Chinese capital and, in the case of one anchor, even on state television.
Chavez gives symbolic sword to Venezuela fencer
President Hugo Chavez has given a replica of South American independence hero Simon Bolivar's sword to Venezuelan fencer Ruben Limardo for winning a gold medal at the London Olympics.
Pearson wins gold for Australia; Jones misses out
Sally Pearson stood in the rain, hands on her head, eyes fixed on the big screen, desperately willing her name to show up first so she wouldn't be another Olympic letdown for Australia.
US women's volleyball heads to Olympic semis
Destinee Hooker threw her arms around teammate Courtney Thompson in celebration after the U.S. women's volleyball team defeated the Dominican Republic to advance to the semifinals at the London Olympics.
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