Tribune Olympic Bureau

How do they make a swimming pool faster? Use running water? Artificial water? Rapids? H4O? With the fanfare of unprecedented speed at the Olympics, eight world records and another equaled...

Could it be that the soccer story of these Olympic Games will not be the last hurrah of the U.S. women but rather the first hurrah of the U.S. men?...

For starters, the sport isn't Ping-Pong. Ping-Pong is something you play in your basement on a rickety table with a droopy net. The players' bellies are often droopier as they...

It was getting a little crowded on Tom Malchow's starting block Tuesday night, but he had no choice but to make room. Ryan Weggenman was there, right on schedule and...

The way things are going, much of Marion Jones' ballyhooed quest for five gold medals may seem like a walkover. Jones' leading rival in two events, U.S. teammate Inger Miller,...

Red, White and Bluetown is more like it, at least to anyone passing within shouting distance of Tom Lasorda's All-American traveling vaudeville act behind home plate Tuesday at the Baseball...

Karen Scavotto completed an accelerated high school program in January to get a head start on her late-summer plans. On Tuesday those plans brought her all the way to a...

What second-rate Hollywood hack came up with this story? What dreamer created Ian Thorpe, this Down Under myth, this figment of a wild imagination in a country in serious need...

Pieter van den Hoogenband has finally made a name for himself, and if it seems excessive at 22 letters and seven syllables, well, that's too bad. The Dutchman upset local...

Could it be that the soccer story of these Olympic Games will not be the last hurrah of the U.S. women but rather the first hurrah of the U.S. men?...