Aurora gymnast gets Olympic experience
Anna Li will get an Olympic experience after all — just not the one she had planned. A day after it was announced she could no longer serve as an...
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Local Olympic swimmers appear in viral ‘Call Me Maybe’ video
LONDON -- They're at the Olympics. And this is crazy. But they made this video. So watch it maybe. On the eve of competition, the U.S. swimming team has released...
Despite injury, gymnast Li stays in London for Olympics
LONDON-- Anna Liwill get an Olympic experience after all -- just not the one she had planned. A day after it was announced she could no longer serve as an...
Olympians with Illinois connections
Representing the U.S. Lance Brooks, Springfield, track and field (discus): The No. 1 discus thrower in the country, Brooks once worked seven jobs to pay for his training. The Millikin...
Injury forces Aurora’s Li off Olympic team
LONDON -- Anna Li's Olympic odyssey has come to a painful and definitive end. The Aurora gymnast has been released as an alternate for the U.S. team following a bad...
Olympians with Illinois connections
Representing the U.S. Lance Brooks, Springfield, track and field (discus): The No. 1 discus thrower in the country, Brooks once worked seven jobs to pay for his training. The Millikin...
U.S. women’s wrestler Bernard making most of second chance
LONDON -- No one on the U.S. women's Olympic wrestling team appreciates the power of second chances quite like Ali Bernard. Bernard, 26, was convinced her competitive career was over...
‘Flying squirrel’ wrestler on his pet flying squirrel: ‘He bites me all the time’
LONDON -- Greco-Roman wrestler Ellis Coleman believes the U.S. Olympic team is big enough for two flying squirrels, but he is prepared to defend his right to the nickname should...
Open water swimmer competing for U.S., himself, friend at Olympics
Alex Meyer still cannot mask his anger. A lot has happened in the 19 months since his close friend and open water swimming teammate Fran Crippen drowned while competing in...
Selecting Peterson jury expected to be a difficult, delicate task
A year before he joined Drew Peterson's defense team, attorney Joseph Lopez participated in a mock trial involving the retired police sergeant. And even then, he acknowledged representing the loutish...