Tribune Olympic Bureau

It was supposed to be another incredible chapter to Lance Armstrong's improbable story. Watch Armstrong conquer cancer. Watch him beat the odds by winning his second straight Tour de France...

This was going to be the time Suzy Favor Hamilton finally shook the notion that she was a perpetual underachiever. She was the greatest woman track athlete in Big Ten...

U.S. boxers Ricardo "Rocky" Juarez and Ricardo Williams each fought his way into position for one more Olympic bout--a bout for a gold medal. Juarez and Williams won Friday night...

For a pool player, Brian Dunseth should have known a bank shot from that angle wasn't going to work. Nevertheless, had Dunseth's shot been a few inches lower Friday night,...

It's the classic story of the young boy dreaming of winning Olympic gold by using broomsticks to pole-vault in his back yard. The only thing missing from the picture was...

Pride goes before the foul. Or fouls. Marion Jones had four fouls in six long-jump attempts Friday, ending her hopes for five Olympic gold medals and mocking her stubborn refusal...

The international stage is set in women's basketball: host Australia against the defending gold-medal champion United States. "Australia has created this rivalry with us," Lisa Leslie said after leading the...

Conversations stopped. People looked up. Spectators started to pay attention for the first time since this edition of Olympic men's basketball got under way. The United States' celebrated "Dream Team"...

They had been improving gradually, getting contributions from more and more players, enough good signs for Wolf Wigo to anticipate the U.S. men's water polo team could win its Olympic...

Brandon Slay's stunning upset of one of the world's best wrestlers instantly put him within sight of an Olympic gold medal. It also made the U.S. freestyle wrestler vulnerable to...