NBC's primetime coverage resumes tonight at 8 p.m. ET/PT gold medal finals in Beach Volleyball, Track & Field, Diving and other marquee events.
BEIJING (AP) - Kobe Bryant is about to become an old man by basketball standards.
BEIJING (AP) - FIFA has no plans to strengthen Olympic soccer with full national teams, preferring to stick with its age restrictions despite the sport's low profile compared with track and field, swimming and gymnastics.
Jack Hubbard is getting a big break from the daily pressures of wearing Yankee pinstripes: He's been busy representing all of Europe as an Olympic coach for the Dutch baseball team.
After some disappointments among Nike's prospects, the company is looking to men's basketball for one of those big medal moments companies crave from the Olympics.
BEIJING (AP) - Beijing's air quality in recent days has not been a cause for concern for athletes, and neither is its the water.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) - Move over Tony the Tiger, here comes Olympic champion Michael Phelps.
Natalie du Toit pulled herself onto the dock and waited for someone to bring her prosthetic leg. She stretched out the other leg - the one she didn't lose in that horrendous motorcycle accident - and chatted with her coach about the first open water race in Olympic history.
The gold isn't in question anymore. It never really was, unless Kobe Bryant ate some bad Beijing duck or Dwyane Wade got lost at the Great Wall.
Here's a look at the sponsors of American swimmer Michael Phelps, according to his agents. They declined to specify the value of the deals.
Kerri Walsh and Misty May try for a gold medal live, and BMX premiers on primetime NBC.
Hurdler Liu Xiang's surprise departure from the Olympics was a blow to advertisers including Coca Cola and Nike that made the 25-year-old hurdler a star of campaigns aimed at Chinese consumers.
Here is how He Kexin of China and Olympic all-around champion Nastia Liukin finished with the same score on the uneven bars but different medals:
Visa Inc. popped out ads almost as quickly as he swam his laps. Pizza Hut is giving Michael Phelps and his teammates free pizza and pasta for a year for him beating Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals in one Olympics.
Hurdler Liu Xiang's withdrawal from the Olympics hit China on an emotional level, underscoring the personal connection many Chinese feel to an athlete who embodied their nation's desire for international recognition and respect.
QINGDAO, China (AP) - One day, boats were bobbing around on the water like corks, with no wind to move them at the Olympic sailing venue. The next day, some were cart-wheeling in the gale force winds and heavy waves, or seeming almost to fly over the water with their spinnakers bulging.
