Tribune Olympic Bureau

LONDON — When they make the movie of Oscar Pistorius' life, I look forward to telling my son I was there for what could be a great opening scene. I...

LONDON — Chris Paul grabbed the game ball and handed it off quickly to a Team USA attendant for safe-keeping. Then the U.S. players jumped up and down in a...

LONDON — Usain Bolt charged through the finish to obliterate another world record Saturday and then he got started. He decelerated past a trackside helper, stretched out the baton he'd...

LONDON — In summing up London 2012, the temptation is to deliver a panegyric. Such a discourse, filled with lofty expressions of praise, would reflect the ancient roots of the...

LONDON — The age-old rivalry between Australia and Britain has provided one of the more entertaining subplots at the 2012 London Olympics. Before the competition began, Australian diver Matthew Mitcham...

LONDON — Britain bid a lyrical farewell to the Olympics on Sunday in a manner reflective of the way the host country embraced these Games for the past two weeks:...

LONDON — The one good thing about the ridiculous hours we worked at these Olympics was the late-night walks. The ones after 3 a.m. could also have been called early...

LONDON — It's officially time to go home when the volunteer at the media shuttle bus stop asks — in unsolicited fashion — if it's your last day here. And...

LONDON — They used words like passion and embrace and emphasized the tagline "a city leaps forward." But Leonardo Gryner perhaps put it best when the CEO of Rio de...

LONDON — Freestyle wrestler Jordan Burroughs came to the Olympics with two objectives: to become the champion in the 163-pound weight class and to restore Team USA to what he...