Tribune Olympic Bureau

They were too young. Too inexperienced. Too slow. Too inconsistent. But Wednesday night at the Entertainment Center, the U.S. women's volleyball team raised its record to 3-0 with a sweep...

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...

Until this week, Alexander Popov was one of the kings of swimming. He owned the world record in the 100-meter freestyle for six years. He was the two-time defending Olympic...

When his portion of the event was complete, Scott Shipley climbed onto the nearby rocks. Off in the distance the Blue Mountains formed a nice backdrop for Penrith Whitewater Stadium....

The Olympics were just a waiting game for Michael Bennett until Thursday, Day 6 of the Sydney Games. But the Chicago heavyweight boxer has played that game before--in far more...

Victor Wunderle's Olympic quest, in terms understandable to those who don't understand archery but do understand pressure, boiled down to this Wednesday afternoon: Shoot arrows into a bull's-eye the size...

If the U.S. Olympic softball team is going to repeat as a gold-medal winner, it just added a game to the schedule. China scored twice with two outs in the...

Yolanda Griffith played like a woman possessed. The fearless former Carver High School All-Stater led a furious second-half resurgence by the U.S. women's basketball team Wednesday, finishing with 16 points...

U.S. fencer Cliff Bayer was only a touch away from upsetting South Korea's Kim Young-Ho, who went on to win the gold medal in the men's individual foil. "If I...

Raw speed. That's what Nigeria threw at the U.S. women's soccer team Wednesday. That and a propensity for crunching tackles that frequently left American players sprawled on the ground, clutching...