Tribune Olympic Bureau

The first 10 years of Meb Keflezighi's life were full of fear and poverty in Eritrea. He worried about the African country's war with Ethiopia and whether his older brothers...

Joe Williams might one day look back on his Olympic wrestling experience and see it as one of the biggest achievements of his life. Don't expect it anytime soon. The...

With the baseball and softball games over and the Greeks left with stadiums for sports they don't know how to play, many Athenians hope the Olympic complex in this seaside...

He was anointed The Face of this year's Summer Olympics long before they opened, and on the world's biggest stage, Michael Phelps lived up to the hyperbole that accompanied him...

Contentiousness has marked the 2004 Summer Olympics over the outcome of judged sports such as gymnastics. And battles are yet to come over how to repair the judging system. To...

The packed house at the Olympic taekwondo hall cheered rivals and booed every point scored Saturday by Steve Lopez, the defending gold medalist from Texas. But with his older brother...

By one objective standard, the medal count at this Olympics has been a success for the U.S. track and field team. With one event left, the men's marathon Sunday, it...

The gold medal was gone. But the U.S. men's basketball team still had a Saturday night date at Olympic Indoor Hall. The bronze-medal meeting with Lithuania figured to be little...

Hicham El Guerrouj knew what was at stake Saturday. It was not only first place in a race, but a place among the immortals of his sport. When he woke...

She had chased this moment for 11 years, but always it had eluded her. Now it was here. Tina Thompson helped deliver it with an exceptional performance, scoring a game-high...