Sunday’s result between the United States women’s soccer team and China was irrelevant, but the match still had significant implications on the U.S. Olympic squad , which was announced hours before kickoff.

Lightweight women's double sculls crew Julie Nichols and Kristin Hedstrom qualified for the U.S. Olympic team with a fourth place finish in the final round of the Samsung World Rowing Cup on Sunday.

Olympic gold medalist Kristin Armstrong is getting pins in her broken collarbone after crashing out of the Exergy Tour, a mishap that's put a question mark on her hopes of riding in the London Olympics.

Some of the divers competing at June's OIympic Diving Trials in Federal Way are here this week to promote the event. Among them is four-time gold medalist Greg Louganis, who shows he still has some skills at age 52.

In the 2008 Olympic trials Ariana Kukors missed the Beijing games by eight one hundredths of a second. It was the love and support from her family that got Ariana back up on the blocks.

The Olympic torch was briefly snuffed out Monday during the relay leading up to the London 2012 Games.

In unfamiliar territory, the U.S. men’s eight rowers must win the upcoming Final Olympic Qualification Regatta to send a crew to the 2012 Olympics.

It used to be that the closest you got to your favorite athletes was catching their highlights or buying their trading cards. Possibly stalking. But now Twitter has connected us Olympians and fans in incredible ways.

We’ve sorted through the position battles among the U.S. women’s national soccer team’s goalkeepers, defenders and midfielders over the past two days. Now, finally, we dig into the women seeking to occupy the American frontline, starting with two of the most prominent faces of U.S. soccer.