Tribune Olympic Bureau

It hangs over them now, the idea they could be 90 minutes from the end. Julie Foudy felt it Friday while listening to the national anthem before the U.S. women's...

On billboards across Athens, weightlifter Pyrros Dimas is featured in sportswear ads under the words, "Impossible is lifting your country." Winning a record-breaking fourth gold medal proved impossible for Dimas,...

Perfect. That is what the U.S. softball team is as it awaits Monday's gold-medal game against Australia. Its record is a perfect 8-0. Its pitching staff's ERA is a perfect...

He's going to take some time off from swimming and enjoy the rewards his accomplishments have brought him, but in typical Michael Phelps fashion, he can't avoid thoughts of his...

Paul Hamm believes the Olympic all-around championship is his and only his. Hamm's stance could put him in conflict with the U.S. Olympic Committee, which said it would consider supporting...

There had been strange times for Justin Gatlin. First he was given a two-year ban after testing positive in 2001 for a drug Gatlin had been prescribed since childhood to...

Her own dad once was among the multitude of doubters. But Sunday, Patricia Miranda and her three U.S. women's wrestling teammates went a long way toward making believers of a...

Annia Hatch had no business being here. At 26 she's over the hill for women's gymnastics. She shouldn't have the strength or the guts to perform some of the world's...

Ignoring the moral of Aesop's ancient Greek fable about the tortoise and the hare, the U.S. men's and women's rowing teams shot out to early leads in the eight-oared finals...

The medal ceremony for the 200-meter butterfly was over, and it would be only 20 minutes until Michael Phelps, the event's winner, would swim the opening leg of the 800-meter...