Tribune Olympic Bureau

Chicago heavyweight Michael Bennett started cautiously on his quest for Olympic gold Thursday against a defensive-minded Pole, but he finished with a flurry in the fourth and final round for...

In the end, it was the closest game a United States basketball team has played since NBA players joined the Olympics eight years ago. Playing as if they all had...

Doug Mientkiewicz's grand slam cleared the fence just as Ernie Young reached third base. Young started bouncing in the air. "I thought I was in college," Young said. "I said,...

Grace was the operative word at the men's individual all-around gymnastics finals Wednesday night--abundant in the form of Olympic gold medalist Alexei Nemov and sorely lacking from American also-ran Blaine...

There must be something in the water. Two more world records fell Tuesday night in Olympic swimming, bringing the number to 10 in the first four days of competition. Pieter...

The U.S. Olympic boxing team is unbeaten, having gone 8-for-8 with four boxers waiting to fight after Tuesday's bouts. The Cuban boxing team is also unbeaten, having gone 7-for-7 over...

Behind them the happy laughter of victory wafted by in warm-up suits of blue and yellow and orange and red. In front of them, the pain of bitter disappointment was...

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

Lance Armstrong has heard about countries where the folklore gives cats more than nine lives. "In Italy they have 12 or 13 lives," he said. "Hopefully I'm an Italian cat."...

Having already been assured of a place in the four-team medal round, the U.S. women's water polo team was stung but not flustered by its 7-6 loss to Australia before...