Skip Myslenski

CELESTE BERNARD Four days into the Games, the quality of my Olympic experience hinged on finding a package I needed for deadline and was a day late reaching me. I...

What do you do if the U.S. isn't in the medal game? Sell. At least that's what was going on Thursday afternoon on a bus heading for Fulton County Stadium....

Algeria's Hassiba Boulmerka, 1,500-meter champion in Barcelona and last year's world champion, arrived at a press conference on crutches Friday bemoaning the circumstances that led to her badly spraining ankle....

The dream ended Wednesday morning for Rob Eiter, the U.S. freestyle wrestler out of St. Viator High School in Arlington Heights. It came when he lost his second match in...

Rob Eiter must weigh no more than 105.5 pounds to compete in his sport. So before weighing in for a competition, he often spends more than an hour in a...

Dave Schultz had a good chance to be on the U.S. freestyle wrestling team competing here. But then, in late January, he was gunned down, allegedly by John E. du...

During the many years he fought the drug suspension he received in 1990, 400-meter runner Butch Reynolds had one major adversary: Primo Nebiolo, the head of the international federation that...

Ecuador's Jefferson Perez won the 20-kilometer walk Friday, and grabbed his own piece of history. His gold was the first Olympic medal won by his country. "I came to the...

Dan Landry, an outside hitter on the U.S. volleyball team, was born in the Philippines. That same country was also the birthplace of the "Philippino Bomb," which, no, is not...

Plain or peanut? Chewy or chunky? Scented or unscented? Daily there are so many choices to make, and now comes another. Is Olympic Stadium's hard track more dangerous to sprinters...