Rebecca Soni beat Jessica Hardy to win the 100-meter breaststroke at the Speedo Grand Challenge on Friday while Hardy returned to win the 50 freestyle, and 40-year-old Janet Evans finished fourth in a consolation final of the 400 freestyle.

Even without his super suit, Paul Biedermann showed he's a threat again by winning the 200-meter freestyle at the European Championship by a large margin Wednesday, following up a gold in the 400 two days earlier.

It seems like everyone was in or at a wedding this weekend. If so, you missed out on an interesting weekend in Olympics news as the hurdles race heated up and shooters sealed up spots in London.

For the first time since an Achilles injury knocked him out of the Beijing Olympics, China's Liu Xiang dominated a high-class 110m hurdles race, winning in a world-leading 12.97 at the Diamond League meet in rain-soaked Shanghai.

The Olympic flame heads to Britain to light a 70-day torch relay leading to the opening of the 2012 London Games.

Cuba's Olympic high hurdles champion Dayron Robles will attempt to get close to 13 seconds when he sharpens his London Games build-up with his first athletics meetings in the United States next month.

After a lifetime of defying presumptions about the limits of his athletic capabilities, Oscar Pistorius needs to run the 400m in 45.30 seconds or quicker just once more before June 30 to be eligible for selection in the South Africa squad for the London Olympics

Julie Zetlin has been called the savior of U.S. rhythmic gymnastics.

Phelps and Lochte who? Ricky Berens stole the show in Charlotte, beating both in their anticipated head-to-head match up. Not to be outdone, a few divers and beach volleyballers also made significant strides toward London.