Bonnie Desimone

U.S. women's soccer team captain Carla Overbeck's start in the gold-medal game against China extended the defender's streak of full international appearances, or caps, to 63, the longest stretch in...

Like their male counterparts, most female Brazilian soccer players go by one name only. Thursday's starting lineup in the semifinal against Norway included Meg, Suzy, Fanta and Sissi. There is...

Beach volleyball isn't officially on the schedule for Sydney 2000 yet, but silver medalist Mike Dodd, 38, of El Segundo, Calif., has no doubt it will be. "It's just a...

Rap deejay Tom Dolan, who does a little swimming in his spare time, had some people believing he would win gold medals in the 400-meter individual medley, the 400 freestyle...

U.S. freestyle sprinter Gary Hall Jr., on how his namesake father, a three-time Olympian, acts while watching him: "When there's a swimmer in the stands with a race on the...

Kieren Perkins of Australia eked out a finals berth in Friday's 1,500-meter freestyle by a fraction of a second, indicating that he has not yet returned to the form that...

Amanda Beard, having made her passage from bitsy breaststroker to triple Olympic medalist (silvers in the 100 and 200 breaststroke, gold in the 4-x-100 medley relay), was typically understated as...

U.S. backstroker Jeff Rouse didn't want to leave the water after winning his long-awaited gold in the 100-meter event Tuesday. He didn't seem to want to go home and go...

How important was Gary Hall Jr.'s best-ever 100-meter split of 47.45 seconds in the 4-x-100 freestyle relay Tuesday night? At the 300-meter mark, the U.S. was third, 0.62 seconds behind...

Swimming's equivalent of the marathon, the men's 1,500-meter event, can be tedious to watch. But all eyes in the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center should be wide open when the world's...