Tribune Olympic Bureau

The Olympics moved into the new millennium with an Opening Ceremony that strove for reconciliation after recognition of past injustices, especially those done to the indigenous peoples who have called...

Vin Baker really has been cooking for the United States men's basketball team. And Olympic competition hasn't even begun. Baker has been cooking ribs, chicken, pork chops, shrimp ... just...

If they are poised on the cusp of Olympic stardom and global recognition, only they seem to know it. More often than not, they are asked to defend themselves. Against...

Nancy Johnson, who learned to shoot in Downers Grove and still calls that her hometown, won the first gold medal of the Sydney Olympics on Saturday. "I feel really good,...

It was the sort of thing an innocent abroad might have done, but it showed just the sort of mature self-confidence that made forward Tiffeny Milbrett the dominant player for...

If 2000 is the year of the woman for these Olympic Games, it's a clear fact on the U.S. equestrian team. "This is the first all-woman equestrian jumping team in...

As he waited only a few days and a few miles from the boxing ring where he'll pursue his dream of an Olympic gold medal, Michael Bennett was thousands of...

Afloat in financial prosperity yet adrift in the ethical and moral bankruptcy of managerial corruption and athletes' doping, the Olympic Games enter the new millennium with a sense of paradox...

They have plenty of Olympic experience, including a team member who has made three prior Games. They have won medals at this level. And they have wizened leaders, including two...

Karel Bruckner looks as if he should be conducting the Czech Philharmonic, what with his stylishly long white hair. Instead what he conducts is the men's Olympic soccer team from...