Tribune Olympic Bureau

On this roller-coaster hillside, baked yellow by the sun, hands must be carefully washed and manure buried 6 feet deep before horse and rider are cleared to compete in the...

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....

The United States' softball team might have been considered as much of a gold-medal sure thing as the U.S. men's basketball team heading into the Sydney Olympics. Softball, after all,...

It was only two years ago that Nova Peris-Kneebone began to hear her maternal grandmother's story. "I didn't want to tell you of my problems," grandmother Nora Peris said, keeping...

Declaring an official do-over, Olympic gymnastics officials at Thursday's women's individual all-around finals tried to patch over a measurement error in the vault that competitors, coaches and observers called one...

Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands won her second gold medal of the Olympics on Thursday night, but her supporters were too busy lashing out at critics to celebrate. The...

The Olympic motto beseeches athletes to be "stronger, higher, faster." For the throwing events of track and field, that motto would mean "further." That did not happen Friday night in...

Led by backstroker Lenny Krayzelburg, the United States won eight more swimming medals Thursday night. Krayzelburg led the way in the 200-meter backstroke, winning in an Olympic record 1 minute...

In an Olympic gold-medal acceptance speech that would have shamed a long-winded Oscar winner, Misty Hyman even found time to thank her chiropractor. We'll give her a break, just this...

Marty Nothstein was the kind of kid who, at 4, asked for the training wheels to be taken off his bike about 30 minutes after he rode for the first...