Tribune Olympic Bureau

This being the Olympics, it was nice to see a torch being passed Thursday. When sisters Venus and Serena Williams won the women's doubles tennis gold medal, keeping intact a...

Vince Carter may be the reigning ambassador for the NBA, but the high-flying Team USA star is considered just another ugly American in the eyes of some Olympic opponents and...

Two proud Olympic boxing teams, their vulnerabilities exposed this week, each sent a young warrior into the ring Thursday to break through to a gold-medal bout. Only one could get...

Konstantinos Kenteris was an unlikely candidate to become a Greek god. But his story is straight out of mythology, at least as far as the Olympics is concerned. He hadn't...

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"...

She is one of the truly rare ones, the exceptional athlete who manages to grow up at the Olympics, to go from little kid to adult, from prodigy to master...

U.S. freestyle wrestler Brandon Slay scored a stunning upset over a favored Russian on Thursday, while teammate Cary Kolat suffered a bad case of deja vu when an apparent victory...

Ranked 10th in the world before the Olympics, the U.S. women's volleyball team might have been satisfied with what it had achieved before Thursday's semifinal match against Russia. But that's...

And then there were four. After a promising start with 11 wins in 12 bouts, the U.S. Olympic boxing team has been punched down to four survivors. But that quartet...

A Wyoming farm boy who kept quiet when teasing classmates called him "Fatso" as a 120-pound 4th-grader took it out on the world's most fearsome Greco-Roman wrestler Wednesday. And he...