Tribune Olympic Bureau

Adjectives alone will not suffice when it comes to describing the United States' victory over Japan in the quarterfinals of the men's soccer tournament Saturday night. This was a game...

Australia's controversial game-winning score in the final seconds of the women's water polo final overshadowed any enthusiasm for its rivalry with the United States. In the end, there were only...

Four years ago Maurice Greene and Marion Jones were spectators at the Olympic Games in Atlanta. Jones was in the stands with a broken foot that had kept her from...

Eric the Swimmer was tailor-made as the accidental hero of the first week of the Olympic Games. Australians, after all, love the underdog, cheer "the battler" and nurture a genetic...

Before these Olympics, Gary Hall Jr. brashly predicted the United States would smash Australia "like a guitar" in the swimming competition. After the Australians sent the Americans to their first...

The man most responsible for Olympic trampolining had an apology to make. It seems he can do a back flip on the apparatus as well as walk on his hands...

Errol Davis' father bequeathed him not only an aluminum baseball bat but the dream that one day a South African team, both black and white, would line up against the...

She weighs only 104 pounds, but Naoko Takahashi's favorite pastime is eating. A Japanese track magazine reported she would scarf down 40 pieces of sushi at all-you-can eat sushi bars,...

The Olympics are serving as a platform for the unique logic of Tommy Lasorda. Forgive the world if it is confused. Before Saturday's game against Cuba, Lasorda said he wanted...

Bad news for the other teams vying for the gold medal in women's basketball. "I don't think you've seen our best play yet," Katie Smith of the defending champion U.S....