Tribune Olympic Bureau

The clock became the thing Marla Runyan needed to watch after her race was over. The top five in each of Thursday's two semifinals of the women's 1,500 meters plus...

She won the race easily, her margin the biggest in the event at an Olympics since 1960, bigger even than the gap Florence Griffifth Joyner opened while setting the world...

Athletes have different ways of preparing for their ultimate Olympic competition. Lance Armstrong's method was to ride his bike at full gear for more than five hours Wednesday. If the...

So once again it is the United States and Norway. Once again the only two countries to have won a women's world championship will meet on the soccer field to...

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

Angelo Taylor of Atlanta came to the Olympics as the fastest man in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles this season. Yet his chances for a gold medal seemed severely compromised when...

The Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis has no sports stadium, no running tracks and no coaches. But its 38,000 people like to jog and laugh and sometimes...

Having just added a gold medal to this year's Wimbledon and U.S. Open titles, Venus Williams sounded a warning to the rest of women's tennis: She's just getting started. Of...

In 1980, with the Cold War raging and the Iranian hostage crisis chipping away at American self-esteem, an Olympic hockey team made a nation mired in a deep malaise feel...

This was not the way this was supposed to end. The only suitable conclusion would have been Kay Poe draping her gold medal around her best friend's neck, and Esther...