Olympics

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

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.

When it comes to the 2012 Olympics, British bookshop owner David Mitchell said it best, “Performance levels have become so much higher that it’s so hard now to get a medal.” Just think about Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte, both of whom have won medals by mere seconds ahead of their competitors. But does that make those Olympians who came just shy of placing any less athletic?

U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps won the 200-meter individual medley Thursday for his first individual gold of the London Games, in the process becoming the first man to win the same individual event in three straight Olympics. Phelps, who won the 4 X 200 relay earlier, clocked 1 minute, 54...

It was a historic night at London's Basketball Arena II.   The U.S. men's basketball team was particularly effective on Thursday night as it set multiple scoring records against Nigeria in a completely one-sided contest, 156-73. ...

Michael Phelps has broken the all-time Olympic medal record with his 19th. Phelps was out-touched at the wall Tuesday by South Africa's Chad le Clos in the 200-meter butterfly, but anchored a big win for the United States in the men's 800-meter freestyle relay about an hour later...

The Americans lived up to the hype and then some, as they won their first Olympic gold medal in women's gymnastics since 1996. The team’s score of 183.596 Tuesday night was a whopping five points ahead of Russia. Romania won the bronze medal...

Thanks to South Korean archer Im Dong-hyun the first world record and the first moving human interest story of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London has come before the Games of the XXX Olympiad have even officially begun.