Tribune Olympic Bureau

It was barely 8 a.m. Sunday when 2004 Olympic bronze medalist Deena Kastor dropped out of the marathon after just 3 miles with what turned out to be a broken...

Christina Loukas likes to be nervous, calling it "adrenaline." So when the Riverwoods native felt relaxed before her first dive in the semifinal round of Saturday's 3-meter springboard competition, her...

Usain Bolt is not among the many athletes who listen to music with headphones on before they compete. His coach, Glen Mills, doesn't allow it, worrying it will interfere with...

Hugh McCutcheon said hellos to his players Saturday morning, finding his familiar and comfortable spot patrolling the sidelines as coach of the U.S. Olympic men's indoor volleyball team. Before doing...

Since earning an Olympic spot with a third-place finish in the 10,000 meters at the U.S. Olympic trials, Wheeling's Jorge Torres has been lying low at his training base in...

Few Olympic athletes lose out on a certain gold medal and say -- no, genuinely believe -- that it was all for the best. "I have zero regrets," U.S. shooter...

Hugh McCutcheon said hellos to his players Saturday morning, finding his familiar and comfortable spot patrolling the sidelines as coach of the U.S. Olympic men's indoor volleyball team. Before doing...

The idea that the 100 meters is a sprint became a bit of an oxymoron Saturday morning. A slow dash is track's answer to jumbo shrimp. Of the three U.S....

It was hard to know exactly what was happening in the final part of the women's 10,000 meters Friday night. Two runners, Elvan Abeylegesse of Turkey and Tirunesh Dibaba of...

MEN'S BASKETBALL This time, Greece has no shot vs. U.S. Greece will always have one night it can treasure forever after stunning the U.S. in the 2006 World Championships, but...