Olympic 1500 meter champion Rashid Ramzi has been stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for doping at the 2008 Beijing Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced.
Evan Lysacek is right where he wants to be.
The cities of Annecy, Munich and Pyeongchang will battle it out to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.
One more reason to buy a ticket to Rio in 2016? Tiger Woods.
The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will include rugby union sevens, a shortened version of the 15-player game, and golf as sports, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced.
My gracious, but this has been a difficult time for us sports troubadours. We do better with simple games, with the tic-tac-toe offensive and defensive Xs and Os, as opposed to the exes and ohs that refer to past marital tense and current romantic joy. I mean, hardly had I begun to digest the news that Lamar Odom of the NBA had married Khloe Kardashian of reality show fame -- ohhh! -- than comes word that Chris Evert and Greg Norman, America's senior sweethearts, had broken up, potential exes-to-be.
In answering the question of when rather than if, the USOC announced that acting CEO Stephanie Streeter will be on her way out from the top of the U.S. Olympic Committee. Consider it a good start.
U.S. President Barack Obama urged the International Olympic Committee on Friday to pick his hometown of Chicago as the host of the 2016 Games, saying the city represents the American dream as well as the Olympic spirit.
What are the first thoughts that pop into your mind when you hear the word Olympics? Probably something synonymous with excellence, greatness, excitement, achievement.
On Friday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will choose the city that will host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, the four finalists, will each make a 45-minute presentation before the IOC members Friday afternoon in Copenhagen. They are likely to highlight their bid's assets and address some of the questions raised in the IOC's site evaluation report released earlier this month. The winning city should be announced between noon and 1 p.m. Eastern Time in the U.S.
Olympic 1500 meter champion Rashid Ramzi has been stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for doping at the 2008 Beijing Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced.
Evan Lysacek is right where he wants to be.
The cities of Annecy, Munich and Pyeongchang will battle it out to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.
One more reason to buy a ticket to Rio in 2016? Tiger Woods.
The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will include rugby union sevens, a shortened version of the 15-player game, and golf as sports, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced.
My gracious, but this has been a difficult time for us sports troubadours. We do better with simple games, with the tic-tac-toe offensive and defensive Xs and Os, as opposed to the exes and ohs that refer to past marital tense and current romantic joy. I mean, hardly had I begun to digest the news that Lamar Odom of the NBA had married Khloe Kardashian of reality show fame -- ohhh! -- than comes word that Chris Evert and Greg Norman, America's senior sweethearts, had broken up, potential exes-to-be.
In answering the question of when rather than if, the USOC announced that acting CEO Stephanie Streeter will be on her way out from the top of the U.S. Olympic Committee. Consider it a good start.
U.S. President Barack Obama urged the International Olympic Committee on Friday to pick his hometown of Chicago as the host of the 2016 Games, saying the city represents the American dream as well as the Olympic spirit.
What are the first thoughts that pop into your mind when you hear the word Olympics? Probably something synonymous with excellence, greatness, excitement, achievement.
On Friday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will choose the city that will host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, the four finalists, will each make a 45-minute presentation before the IOC members Friday afternoon in Copenhagen. They are likely to highlight their bid's assets and address some of the questions raised in the IOC's site evaluation report released earlier this month. The winning city should be announced between noon and 1 p.m. Eastern Time in the U.S.
Tiger Woods already has 14 major titles. He could be adding an Olympic medal to his collection soon.
Women's boxing will be included at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the president of the International Olympic Committee announced Thursday.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) have confirmed on their offical Web site that further analysis of samples taken from the Beijing Games have revealed that six athletes tested positive for blood-boosting hormone CERA.
London's preparations for the 2012 Olympics were scrutinized by International Olympic Committee (IOC) inspectors on Tuesday when they began a three-day tour of the £9.3 billion project.
The Olympic torch relay for the 2012 London Games will be confined to Britain, organizers confirmed on Friday.
The International Olympic Committee will use newly developed drug testing procedures to retest samples taken from athletes at last summer's Beijing Olympic Games, the IOC said Tuesday.
So-called "age-doping" may be the scandal about to break over women's gymnastics. But are there lab tests to quantify how old you are?
Ukrainian Lyudmila Blonska has been stripped of her Olympic heptathlon silver medal, the highest-profile athlete kicked out of the Beijing Games for doping.
The International Olympic Committee has asked gymnastics officials to look into whether China's women's gymnastics team used underaged competitors, an IOC spokeswoman said Friday.
A Swedish wrestler who discarded his bronze medal in a protest during the presentation ceremony has been stripped of the award and disqualified from the tournament in Beijing.
The basketball players – including Lakers star Pau Gasol – are denounced for making Asian-caricature faces
The Beijing Games have officially become the first "YouTube" Olympics.
Controversial Greek sprinter Ekaterina Thanou was banned from the Beijing Games on Sunday by an IOC who could not forgive her role in a drugs-testing scandal at the Athens Olympics four years ago.
Basketball hero Yao Ming has been given the honor of carrying the flag of host nation China at Friday's Olympic Games opening ceremony in Beijing.
I'm like anybody else. I watch the Olympics because I want to see who wins. But the 2008 Summer Games are intriguing for reasons that go well beyond the 100-meter final, Michael Phelps' bid to become the greatest Olympian ever or the daily mine-is-bigger exercise of comparing medal counts.
For over a decade, chess and bridge enthusiasts have lobbied the IOC to allow them to compete in the Games. Will they ever succeed?
Iraq will be allowed to compete in next month's Olympic Games in China after agreeing to restore its independent national Olympic panel, the International Olympic Committee said Tuesday.
The U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee are expected to ask a federal judge Monday to shut down Web sites they allege scam customers trying to buy Olympic tickets, according to court documents.
On the last weekend before the Olympic Games begin in Beijing, Olympic officials were still wrestling with pollution problems, Internet access, and at least one doping case -- albeit an old one.
Iraqi representatives will meet with the International Olympic Committee on Monday to try to reach an agreement that would allow now-banned Iraq to participate in next month's games, an official said Friday.
A few months ago, it seemed liked nothing could stop Iraqi sprinter Dana Hussain from representing her country in the upcoming Summer Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee has upheld a ban on Iraqi teams at the Beijing Games, saying Thursday the government missed the deadline to address accusations of political interference
Chicago was among the four cities picked as finalists Wednesday for the 2016 Summer Olympics, setting the stage for a high-profile bidding contest between candidates
About this time every year, a few months before the Summer Olympics begin, there is often a certain amount of anxiety. Usually, it relates to whether all the facilities will be constructed in time for the sappy opening ceremonies. And usually, everything comes together, and fellowship and brotherhood once again reign on earth.
With a year to go before the 2008 Olympics get under way, questions linger over China's efforts to improve its human rights record.
The IOC formally stripped Marion Jones of her five Olympic medals Wednesday, wiping her name from the record books following her admission that she was a drug cheat
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is keen for skateboarding to become an official sport at the 2012 London Games.
The Austrian Olympic Committee imposed lifetime Olympic bans on Tuesday on 14 team officials linked to the blood doping scandal at last year's Turin Games.
The International Olympic Committee this week will review progress of upcoming Olympics including the London 2012 Games amid reports in British media that their cost was spiraling.
The swimming finals and much of the gymnastics at the 2008 Beijing Olympics will be held in the morning, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) revealed on Thursday.
National Olympic Committees (NOCs) on Tuesday pressed the International Olympic Committee for more money, saying its lead sponsorship program needed to be reviewed.
As the Winter Olympics get under way, a row over suspensions and confusion over accusations of doping dominated discussion in Torino.
Turin is ready to host the 2006 Winter Olympics and is set to deliver a spectacular display of "Italian style,"according to the head of the Games' organizing committee.
The Pyrenean city of Jaca will bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics after Spain's Olympic Committee reversed a decision to reject the proposal.
London's winning bid to stage the 2012 Olympics breached the rules, Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe claimed on Monday.
Four of the five cities bidding to host the 2012 Olympic Games have delivered their final presentations to the International Olympic Committee in Singapore.
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge opened their four day annual session in Singapore on Tuesday, telling delegates they had a tough decision to make between the five cities competing for the 2012 Olympics.
After a final, furious lobbying effort by an elite who's who of politicians and athletes, members of the International Olympic Committee are meeting in Singapore to decide which of five cities will host the 2012 Olympic Games.
Exactly a month before the vote, front-runner Paris received the best overall review Monday in an IOC evaluation of the five cities bidding for the 2012 Olympics.
Heads of the 28 Olympic sports federations will hold an emergency meeting before an International Olympic Committee (IOC) vote on July 8 which could result in some sports being axed from the 2012 Games.
Hungarian athletes Adrian Annus and Robert Fazekas have failed in their attempt to win back their gold medals from the Athens Olympics.
New York City's efforts to land the 2012 Olympics have produced one of those only-in-New-York spectacles for the city's residents.
International Olympic Committee chief Jacques Rogge has asked the cities seeking to host the 2012 Games to stop bickering and concentrate on their own efforts.
Madrid will be the first stop on a tour by an IOC panel assessing the five bid cities for the 2012 Olympics.
Hungarian hammer throw champion Adrian Annus has been stripped of his gold medal for failing to take a follow-up drug test, the International Olympic Committee said on Sunday.
Hungarian weightlifter Ferenc Gyurkovics has failed a drug test and may lose his Olympic silver medal, a national Olympic committee spokesman has announced.
Police have completed their investigation of a motorcycle accident reported by disgraced Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou.
The Greek sprinters at the center of an Olympic doping controversy have withdrawn from the Athens Games.
Greece's top sprinter Costas Kenteris has missed a scheduled dope test on the eve of the Athens Games, Olympics and Greek officials have said.
The triumphant U.S. 4x400m team from the 2000 Sydney Olympics, including Michael Johnson, should lose their gold medals, the IAAF decided on Sunday.
North and South Korea will be allowed to march together at the opening of the 2004 Athens Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Friday.
The Olympic flame arrived in Switzerland on a relay which was due to take the torch to the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the first time in 56 years.
The International Olympic Committee has named a shortlist of five cities as possible hosts for the 2012 Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee will announce on Tuesday the shortlist of candidates to host the 2012 Olympic Games.
The nine cities hoping to stage the 2012 Olympic Games face a cull this week as Olympic chiefs meet to draw up a shortlist of candidates.
The International Olympic Committee says it no longer doubts whether Athens will be ready to host this year's Summer Games.
Athens Olympic organizers have again delayed beginning work on a spectacular dome that is intended to be the architectural centerpiece of this summer's Games.
The International Olympic Committee has taken out insurance cover in case this year's Athens Games are cancelled.
A strike by two million Greek workers has prompted Olympic organisers to warn Athens that any more action could threaten the Games in August.
A vice president of the International Olympic Committee, Kim Un-Yong, was arrested early Wednesday on charges of bribery, embezzlement and other irregularities, court officials told CNN.
IOC vice-president Kim Un-yong has been suspended from all Olympic duties pending investigations into corruption charges against him in South Korea.
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