Tribune Olympic Bureau

Vince Carter was rejected. Then Gary Payton's shot was slapped out of bounds. The reputed "Great Wall of China" was in the house. Yao Ming, a 7-foot-5-inch center, and Wang...

Having just experienced the latest in an Olympic career of solo disappointments Sunday night, Jenny Thompson looked ahead through blurred vision to the 100-meter freestyle heats Wednesday. "I just have...

It is the burden of greatness, and it weighs heavily on players such as forwards Mia Hamm of the United States and Sun Wen of China, who have been considered...

This is yet another story of a great athlete who returned for a last cup of coffee and ended up dumping it on himself. It happens all the time in...

After winning the Olympic baseball gold medal in 1996, Cuba manager Jorge Fuentes was asked how the tournament would be different if the United States used its major-league stars. Fuentes...

For Chicago Olympian Hillary Wolf, the agony of defeat was both brief and prolonged. Brief, in that she was overwhelmed by Sun Hui Kye of North Korea from the outset...

John Roethlisberger felt the need to apologize to Americans on Monday night. Then he felt the need to lecture them. The U.S. men's gymnastics team, which finished fifth in the...

The men's basketball team isn't the only U.S. team flashing gold-medal form in the early stages of the Olympic Games. The U.S. women's basketball team improved its record to 2-0...

Keeping all the gold medals in the 10-meter air rifle competition in one country, let alone one family, is one mean feat, especially firing in a field of four dozen...

Heroic rally or simply a nervous start, the U.S. gymnastics Olympic debut demanded some sort of explanation. U.S. men's coach Peter Kormann chose to call it one of the greatest...