Tribune Olympic Bureau

It was about as good as it gets, and even the Americans had to admit that it was so. Australia's Ian Thorpe, the boy wonder, and the United States' Gary...

The United States and the Chinese women's volleyball teams came to the 2000 Olympics with aspirations tempered by the knowledge that they're probably on the borderline of making the medal...

They traveled halfway around the world before they realized they had finally arrived. Tim Hardaway and Yolanda Griffith, former classmates at Carver High School, will try to help their respective...

Forget about bleeding Dodger blue. Tommy Lasorda now bleeds red, white and blue. And those two World Series rings he won as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers? Lasorda says...

Time was not on the side of the U.S. cycling team Saturday night at the Dunc Gray Velodrome as America's hopes for a medal in the inaugural women's 500-meter time...

One of the first times she touched the ball in the Olympic opener, U.S. women's soccer goalkeeper Siri Mullinix was 30 yards from her net. From that position, Mullinix booted...

Maureen O'Toole had been the Michael Jordan of her sport, but she never played on the world's biggest stage. Her legacy included being a six-time world MVP in women's water...

Malcolm Wood sat on the white sands of Sydney's most famous beach strip beside his backpack and bedroll and bad-mouthed the landlord who had kicked him out of his one-room...

The smile that plays around the corners of Clive Charles' eyes is growing more noticeable with each game. The coach of the U.S. men's Olympic soccer team is enjoying this...

Sure, it was a competition, and sure U.S. triathlete Sheila Taormina of Livonia, Mich., was in the thick of it much of the way. But she knew it was more,...