LONDON - Look out London, Michael Phelps is coming to the 2012 Games and he's thinking about adding events to his repertoire.
BEIJING (AP) - There was always going to be one game where character counted. There had to be, because the rest of the world had simply gotten that much better.
After 16 days, competition came to a close in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Team USA finished up top the medal count with 110 total medals, including 36 gold, 38 silver and 36 bronze. Two golds came on the last night, with wins in both men's basketball and men's volleyball.
BEIJING (AP) - With the Beijing Olympics nearly wrapped up, the sprint to land the 2016 Olympics began on Saturday with all four bidding cities coming together for a rare meeting that showed that who you know could be the most important factor in the race.
Players were just part of the NBA experience at the Beijing Games. The NBA ran game operations at the venue, overseeing everything from the acoustics to the dance team to the concessions. And the Olympics were just the beginning.
BEIJING (AP) - Don't fumble the remote Saturday like the U.S. men's and women's relay teams. Doing so might cost you a day watching team competition at the Beijing Olympics.
With a victory over Brazil, Dalhausser and Rogers completed a U.S. beach volleyball sweep. Earning three medals, BMXers added another succesful performance for Team USA.
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.
One athlete publicly called his coach "a jerk." Another accused his opponent of being unsportsmanlike for failing to own up to a scoring error. And a third threw such a tantrum after receiving a bronze medal that the International Olympic Committee took it away.
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.
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:
