Tribune Olympic Bureau

The gap used to be as big as the distance from Chicago to Australia. The U.S. Dream Teamers were so far ahead of the world in 1992 that a telescope...

The track and field events were scheduled to start at 6 p.m., so the people waiting for the trains at the downtown Central Station were concerned about getting to the...

Celebration of achievement got mixed up with criticism of celebrations, and that was only part of the confusion on the final night of the 2000 Olympic track and field competition....

Derartu Tulu, the Ethiopian with the shy smile who became the first black African woman to win a gold medal at the Olympics after a gripping tussle in the 10,000...

Sammie Henson and Brandon Slay had to be two of the unhappiest silver medalists ever to take the ceremonial walk to the second-place Olympic podium. Slay lost 4-0 to Alexander...

Lisa Leslie lost her hair extension at one point of Saturday's gold-medal contest, but she never lost her poise as the United States brought home another gold medal in women's...

Marion Jones caught a glimpse of herself as she made her final turn, a small glimpse of a gigantic image on the stadium's jumbo screen that was tracking her every...

It was viewed as a no-win situation. Yet the United States Olympic basketball team could not fathom the mortification of becoming the first American squad consisting of NBA players to...

It was no contest. It never was. In the men's platform Saturday, the final diving event, Tian Liang of China won the gold and Hu Jia of China won the...

The United States was shut out of a boxing gold medal for the first time since 1948 Sunday as its final hopes, Ricardo Juarez and Ricardo Williams, were outpointed in...