The Olympic torch was paraded through
India's capital on Thursday, along a historic thoroughfare
purged of spectators, as 15,000 police kept protesters from the
world's largest community of exiled Tibetans far from the
route.
Olympic 200-meter silver medalist Allyson Felix has welcomed an anti-doping program after admitting she was "devastated" by Marion Jones' drug revelations.
The chief of the Russian
corporation that is supervising building work for the 2014
Winter Olympics has resigned, Russian news agencies quoted Prime
Minister Viktor Zubkov as saying on Thursday.
Japan's double Olympic swimming
champion Kosuke Kitajima has fired a warning to his rivals
before this year's Beijing Games, describing his form as
"perfect."
Victoria Ishimatsu won the women's 1-meter springboard final and Ryan Helms topped the men's field in the USA Diving Spring National Championships on Wednesday at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center. Unlike the 3- and 10-meter events, the 1-meter is not an Olympic event, but both divers will compete in the 3-meter event as well.
OK, so it wasn't a world record. Or even Reese Hoffa's personal best. But the shot putter sure does a mean number on a Rubik's Cube. Hoffa was at the U.S. Olympic Committee's media summit Wednesday because he's the reigning outdoor world champion in shot put and former indoor world champ. But he showed off one of his many other talents, taking less than two minutes to unscramble the multi-colored...
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has launched the opening phase of a voluntary pilot program it hopes will improve the accuracy of doping tests. The anti-doping agency will profile the body chemistry of 12 participating athletes using a series of blood and urine tests, and those measurements will be used as a baseline for subsequent tests.