Olympics News

Olympic cycling hero Chris Hoy has said he feels politicians have tried to "cash in" on his success in Beijing.

Donovan Tildesley's final Paralympic Games got off to an emotional start. The blind swimmer from Vancouver looked like someone who had just swallowed a large gulp of water when his name was announced as the ...

A question often raised after the Beijing Olympics is this: in what way has it changed China - and where is the country heading now? One of the most important effects has been on the world's perception of ...

Led Zeppelin 's Jimmy Page has said he would be "honoured" to be asked to perform at the London 2012 Olympic Games .

The International Olympic Committee is investigating the silver and bronze medalists in the men's hammer throw in Beijing for suspected doping offenses.

The Russian news agency Allsport reports Belarusian athletes Vadim Devyatovskiy and Ivan Tsikhan tested positive for traces of testosterone after the hammer final on Aug. 17.

IOC spokeswoman Emmannuelle Moreau says a disciplinary commission will meet at the end of the month to hear the case.

Belarusian Athletics Federation spokeswoman Anastasiya Marinina said Thursday the body has received no documents or confirmation of any positive tests. She says the athletes deny all the allegations.

However, Robinho has stressed the move to City is the right one. "I accept Pele's criticism as he is the king of football, but if he had been me, he would have done the same," said Robinho, who arrived in ...

For nearly five minutes, Braylon Edwards was his swaggering self. Bursting, as always, with confidence, Cleveland's wide receiver met with reporters Wednesday for the first time since severely cutting his right ...

Russian sixth seed Dinara Safina overpowered Italian Flavia Pennetta 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday to reach the semi-finals of the U.S. Open for the first time.

Action movie star Jackie Chan said Wednesday he was not upset about his small role in the Beijing Olympics' opening and closing ceremonies because he was happy to play any part in promoting the games.

CHINESE track star Liu Xiang will need six months to a year to recover from the foot injury that forced him out of the Beijing Olympics, officials said on Wednesday.

THE US city of Chicago is getting the kind of high-profile boost to its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics that only Oprah Winfrey can give.

In this Aug. 24, 2008 file photo, U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps, winner of 8 gold medals at the Beijing Olympic, smiles before a news conference in London.

LeBron James has gone from the gold-medal stand to the silver screen. The Cavaliers' megastar, fresh off helping the U.S. basketball team win gold at the Beijing Olympics, will be at the Toronto International ...

French Open and Olympic runner-up Dinara Safina was an easy fourth-round winner Monday at the 2008 U.S. Open.

Michael J. Fox may have become a U.S. citizen a few years back, but when it came to the recent Beijing Olympics, the Edmonton-born actor was cheering for the Canucks all the way.

ATHENS: Over a dozen Greek athletes who failed doping tests prior to and during last month's Beijing Olympics thought a rare anabolic steroid would help them elude tests, a leading anti-doping expert said ...

AUSTRALIAN butterfly star Jessicah Schipper has dumped longtime coach Ken Wood after he helped tutor the Chinese swimmer who beat her at the Beijing Olympics.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Brazil's Rufus became the sixth horse to test positive for doping during the Beijing Olympics.

Rescuers appealed for temporary housing and tents Monday after a weekend earthquake in southwest China killed at least 33 people, injured hundreds and left tens of thousands of homes in ruins.

The temblor Saturday in Sichuan province, which the U.S. Geological Survey measured at magnitude 5.7, struck along the same fault line as a May 12 earthquake that killed nearly 70,000.

'We need temporary houses ... we need more than 10,000 tents,' said Zhang Hai, head of the foreign liaison office of the Communist Party propaganda department in Panzhihua city. 'This is a mountainous place and so we can't build temporary houses everywhere.'

A massive effort to clear up the skies over Beijing for the Olympics paid off with China's capital seeing its cleanest air in a decade, the city's environmental authority said Monday.