Tribune Olympic Bureau

Gary Hall Jr. will try to repeat Friday as the Olympic champion in swimming's 50-meter freestyle. But after Thursday's semifinals, he voiced frustration at losing a spot on the 400...

Michael Phelps finally enjoyed a rare day of ease Wednesday. He had remained awake until 2 a.m. after the U.S. men's stirring victory over Australia in the 800 freestyle relay...

The map is in the backpack. Cab money is in the pocket. And the notebook has a list of the sports going off Wednesday, one after another, from morning until...

Paul Hamm's mother buried her face in her hands. "He couldn't do it easy," Cecily Hamm said, voice quavering. "He had to put us through a lot." Hamm, from Waukesha,...

Nadia Comaneci watched Courtney Kupets defend her U.S. all-around gymnastics championship in early June, stunned by the power and strength Kupets exhibited. Not even a year before, Kupets' left Achilles'...

The final curtain fell Wednesday on a weeklong drama that has riveted this nation. Greece's two top sprinters, suspected in a doping scandal, withdrew from the Olympics. While still insisting...

Tyler Hamilton has something Lance Armstrong doesn't: an Olympic gold medal. On U.S. cycling's best Olympic day, Hamilton, 33, erased some of the disappointment he experienced at this summer's Tour...

For 17 years it remained there, an ugly scar from an ugly time. It jumped off the pages of countless record books, a stark reminder of those days when drugs...

Vans dropped off the shot putters in front of the last remaining arch of a tunnel that led from the religious sanctuary to the stadium more than 2,000 years ago....

Greek fans packed the basketball arena Tuesday night. They whistled loudly and booed to distract U.S. shooters and thrust out their palms--the Greek equivalent of giving the finger--after every controversial...