Tribune Olympic Bureau

Usually Amy Peterson is "pretty much toast" by 7 or 8 p.m. because of the chronic fatigue syndrome she battles. But suddenly everything is happening past her bedtime. The five-time...

Will the American flag be a security blanket or a suffocating shroud for U.S. athletes competing at the Winter Games? On the one hand, the sight of thousands of Americans...

The biggest security event in the history of the United States and the biggest Winter Games in the history of the Olympics open Friday in Salt Lake City, which Brigham...

They say performers need a certain amount of ice in their veins, but the members of the Utah Symphony never counted on being guinea pigs for that thesis. Their chief...

Allowing U.S. athletes to carry a highly symbolic American flag during Friday night's Opening Ceremony may go far to honor the heroes and victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,...

The moment Australia had anticipated for seven years had something of an anticlimactic feeling when the public-address announcer at Olympic Stadium disclosed that Cathy Freeman was the person who would...

Rocky Juarez uttered the five-letter word: Fixed. "This guy ... it was fixed," a frustrated Juarez said of his 22-14 loss to Bekzat Sattarkhanov of Uzbekistan in their gold-medal boxing...

There is a wondrous and tragic history in Ethiopian marathoning. Gezahgne Abera added another chapter Sunday and revived the bittersweet past by winning the 2000 Olympic marathon. In 1960, Abebe...

Perhaps it was the ultimate sign of America's athletic proficiency, or our high ideals, or maybe just our demanding nature that five Olympic medals in one Summer Games somehow wasn't...

Lincoln McIlravy talked about winning for his family and friends, for country and for pride, then admitted he used it all as motivation for a freestyle wrestling match he wanted...