LONDON AFP — US swimming sensation Michael Phelps warned Sunday that he is already eyeing more gold at the London Games in 2012. Phelps became the most decorated medallist in Olympic history with 14 gold medals from Beijing and Athens, including a record eight gold in China, the most...
BEIJING AFP — Even the prospect of staying in million-dollar apartments isn't enough to tempt the likes of Roger Federer and the superstars of the NBA to bed down at the Olympic Village. The purpose-built, tightly-guarded complex will be home to 16,000 athletes for the duration of the Games...
BEIJING AFP — Beijing Games organisers will be hoping that the exciting crop of competitors in the blue riband event of athletics can dispel the sordid spectre of doping and provide a feast of top-class sport. Certainly, there is a raft of big-name draw cards and record-breakers for whom...
After her triumphs of Olympics past, Dame Kelly Holmes is helping a new generation of athletes reach the top, she tells Mike Rowbottom New role for iconic Olympian When Kelly Holmes retired in December 2005 it was fair to say she had ticked all the boxes. Olympic...
MANILA AFP — President Gloria Arroyo on Friday raised the cash prize offered to the first Philippine athlete to win an Olympic gold medal to 15 million pesos (339,000 dollars), her spokesman said. Arroyo sent off the country's 15 athletes to the Beijing Games at a presidential palace meeting,...
SINGAPORE AFP — Some of the biggest and richest names in world sport will be at the Beijing Olympics, with the superstar mega-list headed by Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova, Lionel Messi, Yao Ming, LeBron James, and Michael Phelps. Some will be mucking in with their teammates at the Olympic...
BEIJING AFP — Olympic host Beijing has set up a sex determination lab to test female Olympic athletes suspected to be males, state media reported Sunday. Experts at the lab, located at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, will evaluate dubious cases based on their external appearance and take...
SINGAPORE AFP — Some of the biggest and richest names in world sport will be at the Beijing Olympics, with the superstar mega-list headed by Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova, Lionel Messi, Yao Ming, LeBron James, and Michael Phelps. Some will be mucking in with their teammates at the Olympic...
Universal Sports Creates Multiplatform, Year-Round Destination for Athletes and Olympic Sports Fans Live US Olympic Trials Programming This Week is First Step in New Partnership NEW YORK & LOS ANGELES -- NBC Sports, a division of NBC Universal, and World Championship Sports Network have joined forces to create...
Some of the world's most accomplished athletes--two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash, two-time Olympic gold-medal swimmer Amanda Beard, two-time Olympic gold-medal soccer player Mia Hamm and 2008 X Games Halfpipe Gold Medalist Gretchen Bleiler--were involved with development of a new line of skin care called Mission Product. The line, which debuted...
HENGELO, Netherlands AFP — Ethiopia's Haile Gebreselassie will attempt to qualify for the 10,000m at the Beijing Olympics with a race against a top-class field here on Saturday. The four-time world champion and double Olympic champion over 10km twice established world records for the event, in 1995 and 1998....
PHILADELPHIA AFP — American world champions Allyson Felix, Tyson Gay, Jeremy Wariner and Lauryn Williams continue their preparations for the Beijing Olympics by competing at Saturday's Penn Relays. The USA versus World format will help athletes and coaches see where they stand in the Olympic pecking order with just...
FRANKFURT, Germany AFP — FIFA president Sepp Blatter opposes a boycott of the Beijing Olympics in the belief nobody would benefit from such a move, the German Football Federation DFB on Monday reported the head of world football's governing body as saying. "A boycott has never benefited anybody -...
SYDNEY AFP — Australian Olympic swimmer Nick D'Arcy was Monday charged with assault following an investigation into a fight at a Sydney nightspot, reports said. Former Commonwealth swimming champion Simon Cowley suffered a broken jaw and broken nose in the incident in the early hours of Sunday. Without...
CHICAGO AFP — US Olympians preparing for the Beijing Games will take part in research programs studying whether or not health monitoring and intervention will help prevent injuries and enhance performance. Studies will use an ultrasound system developed by Olympic global sponsor General Electric, which expects similar studies in...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado AFP — The US Olympic Committee USOC headquarters will remain in Colorado Springs after a review of pitches from several rival cities, USOC chairman Peter Ueberroth announced Monday. The 53 million-dollar deal from Colorado Springs, the USOC's home since 1978, will provide for training center upgrades...
BOEING'S glitchy "virtual fence" may go the way of the Spruce Goose, the Stanley Steamer and Sony's Betamax: All were technological innovations that worked well on paper and less well in the real world. After much hemming and hawing, the Department of Homeland Security finally approved Boeing's...
VIENNA AFP — Former Olympic skiing champion Stefan Eberharter and the German biathlon team have protested their innocence after an anonymous source accused them of blood-doping, daily newspaper Osterreich reported on Saturday. "This is the most idiotic thing I have ever heard," said 38-year-old Eberharter, who won the giant...
BEIJING AFP — Beijing Olympic organisers said Monday they backed a ban on political protests by athletes attending this year's Games, amid uproar over an effort to silence British athletes. Following widespread anger, the British Olympic Association BOA backed down Sunday on its plan to prevent British competitors from...
SYDNEY AFP — Herb Elliott, one of Australia's greatest athletes, has won a World Fair Play award almost 50 years after he became an Olympic champion, the Australian Olympic Committee said Tuesday. The International Committee for Fair Play CIFP based in Hungary awarded Elliott its top honour, the Jean...
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