London Olympics

Make it back-to-back Olympic gold medals for the U.S. men's basketball team. Four years after beating Spain for the title at the Beijing Olympics, the Americans repeated the feat with a 107-100 victory over the Spaniards to claim gold at the London Games...

For the fifth consecutive Olympics and seventh time in eight tries, the American women are gold medalists. Candace Parker led the charge with 21 points, and Team USA used a stifling defensive strategy to run France off the court with a dominant 86-50 performance...

Usain Bolt became the first Olympian to win consecutive gold medals in both short sprints, winning the 200 meters Thursday at the London Games. Earlier at these games, the Jamaican joined Carl Lewis of the United States as the only men to win golds at consecutive Olympics in the 100m. On ...

Carli Lloyd still has the golden touch. Lloyd scored twice in the gold medal game of women's Olympic soccer at Wembley Stadium on Thursday as the United States avenged its 2011 World Cup final loss to Japan, 2-1. Four years after Lloyd scored in extra time to lift the United States to a 1-0 win over Brazil in the Olympic final, she scored two more golden goals to give the Americans their third str

Big Ben loomed nearby as the scene played out like clockwork. Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings were gold medalists again, winners of another Olympic beach volleyball tournament without a blemish, proven queens of the sport yet again on a temporary beach in the regal heart of London...

Lolo Jones' shot at an Olympic medal ended Tuesday, but shots against the divisive U.S. track star are still coming. In this case, from her own teammates. Video courtesy of SB Nation Dawn Harper and Kellie Wells appeared on NBC Sports on Wednesday morning after finishing second and third respectively for Team USA in the 100-meter hurdles—a race in which Jones finished fourth...

So far, the 2012 London Summer Olympics have had some memorable athletic accomplishments — along with some moments that didn’t really live up to the Olympic standard.

2012 Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius from South Africa is breaking barriers this year in London. Just this Saturday, the man known as “Blade Runner” competed in the 400-meter run and finished in second to move on to the semifinals this Sunday. And he did all this with two prosthetic racing legs.

The Opening Ceremonies for the 2012 Olympics is set to take place this Friday, but two of the fine faces we were hoping to see partake in the infamous orgies at Olympic Village won’t be in attendance thanks to a ‘racist’ tweet and a flat out failure to qualify.