Tribune Olympic Bureau

LONDON — I'm not a sports writer, but I know the rule. There's no cheering in the press box, just as there's no clapping on the campaign trail or jeering...

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 — 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 — 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 — 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 -- It's not quite the fraction of a second that separates medalists from also-rans in other sports, but in modern pentathlon, where the scores accumulated are in the mid-four...

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 — 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 — 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...