Tribune Olympic Bureau

When it was over, Tommy Lasorda carried an American flag and wore his baseball Hall of Fame ring. But he didn't have a gold medal. Olympic medals go only to...

It is hard to imagine what Marion Jones is going through, trying to keep the maelstrom surrounding her husband, C.J. Hunter, from sweeping her away as well. One is left...

Disappointment can come in different forms and varying degrees of pain. Gail Devers seems intent on experiencing it in as many ways as she can. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics,...

World record-holder and Olympic 100 champion Maurice Greene was put into the center of the contentiousness between U.S. coaches and the pool of men under consideration for the Olympic 4x100...

It wasn't supposed to end like this, wasn't in the script at all. The U.S. women's soccer team wasn't supposed to be walking around dazed at midfield, the players putting...

Exhausted, exhilarated and at least temporarily satisfied, the U.S. women's volleyball team advanced to the Olympic medal round Tuesday night with a dramatic five-set victory over Korea at the Sydney...

Beaten by Brazil four times before the gold-medal round, the U.S. men's beach volleyball team wouldn't let its past become its future. Instead, Eric Fonoimoana and Dain Blanton moved a...

U.S. diver Mark Ruiz stood on the 3-meter springboard Tuesday night at the Olympic finals, looking a lot like the kid at the public pool who waves to his parents...

Garrett Lowney, who celebrates his 21st birthday two days after the Olympics, won a bronze medal Tuesday night. It was no gift. The 213 3/4-pound division Greco-Roman wrestler from Appleton,...

Underlying the saga that made a big man cry is the tangle of contradiction, confusion, recrimination and revenge that has turned the 2000 Olympics into the decrying game. The case...