Tribune Olympic Bureau

The recruiting season is over. So is the conference race. What remains for the U.S. men's basketball team starting Thursday is the equivalent of the single-elimination NCAA tournament. "We are...

Two young men sat in the stands at the Sports Pavilion. They wore togas loosely around their bodies, olive wreaths atop their heads. They spoke no English but seemed to...

Preparing to fight Evgeny Makarenko of Russia in the quarterfinals of the 178-pound division of the Olympic boxing tournament, Andre Ward read the biblical story of David and Goliath. Like...

Rowdy as always, beach volleyball placed medals around the necks of its most skilled players Tuesday. And as usual, something delightfully unusual occurred. The competitors hugged, all of them, and...

Greek judo champion Eleni Ioannou will be buried Thursday in the outfit she would have worn to the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games. Ioannou, 20, was scheduled to compete...

Rulon Gardner is keeping secrets. America's most famous wrestler opened defense of his 2000 Olympic gold medal in the Greco-Roman competition with three wins Tuesday. After a scare in the...

They were stark contrasts, the thrill of victory and the spill of defeat. Joanna Hayes of the U.S., who had just won the 100-meter hurdles in an Olympic-record 12.37 seconds...

Heather O'Reilly's teammates keep teasing her by saying she should be playing soccer with Katie Fawcett, not Joy--and the idea isn't so far-fetched. After all, the 19-year-old O'Reilly is a...

The most memorable moments from this Olympic gymnastics competition are not those of beaming smiles, tears of joy and overwhelming success for Romania and the U.S. They are painful shots...

It did not matter to Ahmed Mohamed, a 25-year-old construction worker from the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, that his native land's Olympic soccer team could not keep its gold-medal dream...