Tribune Olympic Bureau

Basketball player Dawn Staley felt uncomfortable relating her story to the U.S. team captains who would use the information in picking among 14 nominees to carry the American flag in...

As she boarded a plane Thursday at the Crete airport, the tall young woman had the athletic look and apparent trappings of a U.S. Olympic team member--backpack with USA on...

So often, even now, she draws from her mother. It doesn't matter her mom died 21 years ago or that Yolanda Griffith herself is a world-wise 34. It was her...

First the Iraqi flag was carried on the field. "Look!" Yousif Goreegees said, grabbing your arm, pointing down from his seat. Next the Iraq players filed on. "Look!" Goreegees said,...

Everywhere in Athens are signs that read, "Welcome Home." The greeting is not designed for visitors but for an idea and an ideal, both of which might seem foreign and...

Greece's expected celebration of Friday's opening of the 2004 Olympics turned into a national depression late Thursday as news spread that its star runner, Costas Kenteris, faced a ban from...

Morgan Hamm immediately noticed the stares. Gymnasts from other countries watched with curiosity and concern as the U.S. men's gymnastics team conducted its training session Wednesday at Olympic Indoor Hall....

In a modern Greek tragedy that only the likes of Aeschylus or Sophocles could invent, Greek Olympian Eleni Ioannou fell early Saturday from the fourth-floor balcony of a suburban Athens...

Torri Edwards, expected to contend for an Olympic medal in the 100- and 200-meter sprints, was suspended for two years for taking a banned stimulant, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said...

The nameplate sat at the far left end of the table, and that's where the photographers lurked, waiting to get one more shot of the swimmer already deemed the cover...