Following Monday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake, Beijing's Olympics organizers will scale down Wednesday's torch relay in the southeastern city of Ruijin and open with a minute of silence in a symbolic gesture to the thousands who died.
Claudia Rivero is Peru's top-ranked badminton player and on her way to compete in her first Olympic Games, as part of one of the smallest national teams to compete in Beijing.
Chinese President Hu Jintao demanded Wednesday that the Dalai Lama not try to divide China, incite violence or harm the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing. But he said fledgling talks with representatives of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader would continue.
Waving the Tibet flag or paying tribute to the Dalai Lama during the medals ceremony will be against the rules at the Beijing Olympics, though the penalties for those infractions remain unknown.
There is something wonderfully ironic about the Olympic torch, which is making its journey around the world with what appears to be, a big "KICK ME" sign on it for China.
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.
I wish I had taken notes, but I was too busy eating a club sandwich. What I do remember of my early 1990s lunch with the Dalai Lama -- a session with about a dozen other magazine editors at a dining room in the Time & Life Building in Manhattan -- was that, beneath his ancient red monk's robe, His Holiness was wearing hiking shoes. Birkenstocks, perhaps. Maybe Timberlands.
Viewpoint: Few of them have taken a stand on China's human rights abuses. But athletics and politics should not remain separate
The threat of violence at this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing is greater than first thought and could include anything from violent assaults to large attack plots, the head of Interpol warned Friday.
How many times have we seen it; an athlete offering a rueful shake of the head and shrug of the shoulders, and the only explanation for not winning: "It just wasn't my day." But would knowing if it was their day help?
Following Monday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake, Beijing's Olympics organizers will scale down Wednesday's torch relay in the southeastern city of Ruijin and open with a minute of silence in a symbolic gesture to the thousands who died.
Claudia Rivero is Peru's top-ranked badminton player and on her way to compete in her first Olympic Games, as part of one of the smallest national teams to compete in Beijing.
Chinese President Hu Jintao demanded Wednesday that the Dalai Lama not try to divide China, incite violence or harm the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing. But he said fledgling talks with representatives of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader would continue.
Waving the Tibet flag or paying tribute to the Dalai Lama during the medals ceremony will be against the rules at the Beijing Olympics, though the penalties for those infractions remain unknown.
There is something wonderfully ironic about the Olympic torch, which is making its journey around the world with what appears to be, a big "KICK ME" sign on it for China.
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.
I wish I had taken notes, but I was too busy eating a club sandwich. What I do remember of my early 1990s lunch with the Dalai Lama -- a session with about a dozen other magazine editors at a dining room in the Time & Life Building in Manhattan -- was that, beneath his ancient red monk's robe, His Holiness was wearing hiking shoes. Birkenstocks, perhaps. Maybe Timberlands.
Viewpoint: Few of them have taken a stand on China's human rights abuses. But athletics and politics should not remain separate
The threat of violence at this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing is greater than first thought and could include anything from violent assaults to large attack plots, the head of Interpol warned Friday.
How many times have we seen it; an athlete offering a rueful shake of the head and shrug of the shoulders, and the only explanation for not winning: "It just wasn't my day." But would knowing if it was their day help?
On a Saturday afternoon last month, nearly 600 performers from Beijing were featured in a parade down Hollywood Boulevard to promote the upcoming Olympic games. The mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa was on hand, and the theme was "Beijing welcomes you." Notably absent from the festivities, as far as I could tell, was the one thing you'd expect from a parade alongside the walk of fame: celebs. Indeed, the event itself went off with very little notice - I read about it in the Chinese press, but found no mention of it in the Los Angeles Times.
Continued demonstrations during the Olympic torch relay may spell bad news for corporate sponsors of the Summer Games.
Here was a novel idea. In the summer of 1999 U.S. shot-putter John Godina, who had already won two world titles and an Olympic silver medal, interrupted an interview with a business proposition: "How about if SPORTS ILLUSTRATED pays to drug-test me every day between now and the [Sydney] Olympics?" said Godina. "Blood, urine, the works. Then when I win the gold medal, you've got a big story: a guaranteed clean athlete."
Yes, we have Roger. Yes, we developed the "Bird's nest" Olympic stadium. But in Switzerland, the 2008 Summer Olympics are still far away -- and not just geographically.
If Australia could compete in an Olympic Games at the end of every month, it would be a happier nation.
World-record holder Laure Manaudou will miss out on the 200 meters freestyle at the Beijing Olympics after pulling out of the event at the French national trials on Tuesday.
CNN's global network of affiliates will be providing dispatches from their countries on the Olympics. The aim is to give viewers around the world what the Olympic pulse is in various nations.
Athletes must refrain from any kind of political protests or messages at Olympic venues during the Beijing Games, an IOC panel representing athletes said Thursday.
The United States men's basketball team will face host China in its first game at the Beijing Olympics.
The biggest showcase in the build-up for the Olympics begins on Monday, March 24, with the lighting of the Olympic torch in ancient Olympia, Greece.
Malaysian police said Monday they detained a Japanese family of three that unfurled a pro-Tibet banner as the Olympic torch relay began in the Southeast Asian nation's capital.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -- After a poor 2007 season, "Batman" is back.
The Coca-Cola Co. believes the torch relay as part of the run-up to the Summer Olympics in Beijing should continue and it stands by its sponsorship of the event, Chief Executive Neville Isdell told shareholders Wednesday amid concerns about China's human rights record.
France's Olympic chief backed away from comments that he would not allow French athletes to wear a badge aimed at expressing their desire "For a Better World" at the Beijing Games.
It IS the offseason, after all, so I hope you'll allow me to step out of the football uniform for one brief moment and give voice to something that bothers me greatly. China. The Olympics, or more pointedly, Olympic blindness that sees the Games as an excuse for any number of excesses.
As government billboards called on residents in Buenos Aires to enjoy Friday's planned leg of the Olympic torch run, officials in the Argentine capital were planning for possible disruptions such those that have occurred in other relay cities.
The United Nations secretary general has joined a growing list of high-profile leaders who have indicated they will not attend the Olympic Games' opening ceremony in Beijing, as the troubled torch relay moved to Argentina on Friday.
Beijing announces it has cracked down on two terror groups planning mayhem for the Olympics. But some are skeptical
The Olympic torch relay in San Francisco went well compared to the chaotic scenes in London and Paris earlier this week, the head of the International Olympic Committee said Thursday.
The Olympics are an appropriate forum for political gestures; I would argue, in fact, that the Olympics are a necessary forum for political speech.
The presidential candidates are calling on China to improve its human rights record as protests over the crackdown in Tibet follow the Olympic flame on its international journey.
Thousands of protesters demonstrated against China's human rights record and its crackdown in Tibet after the Olympic flame arrived in San Francisco Tuesday.
The White House left the door open Tuesday to President Bush skipping the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics to protest China's human rights record and its crackdown in Tibet.
Beijing insisted Tuesday that the international Olympic torch relay would go on, despite calls to cut it short amid chaotic anti-China protests.
The last part of the Olympic torch relay in Paris was canceled Monday after a day of chaos in which anti-China protesters forced authorities to extinguish the flame at least five times, take to a bus and skip some scheduled stops, including city hall.
Sen. Hillary Clinton called on President Bush Monday to boycott the opening of this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
A perfect storm is gathering for Beijing's inflexible rulers and it is inextricably linked to the Olympic Games
Fifteen U.S. House members asked President Bush Tuesday not to attend the Olympic Games in Beijing to protest China's human rights records.
The best player CONCACAF has ever produced turned out to be one of the worst managers the region has seen in recent memory.
Great Britain's team pursuiters broke the world record as they successfully defended their title at the track cycling world championships in Manchester on Thursday evening.
Activists protesting China's crackdown in Tibet briefly disrupted the Olympic flame-lighting ceremony in Greece on Monday, calling for a boycott of the Summer Games in Beijing later this year.
Marleen Veldhuis smashed the world record in the women's 50 meter freestyle in winning her third gold of the European swimming championships in Eindhoven on Monday.
Angry Tibetans railing against "cultural genocide." Menacing Chinese security forces taking up positions in Tibet's chaotic streets.
The Olympic torch begins a 130-day, 85,000-mile journey Monday that will take it from the site of ancient Olympia in Greece to Beijing, China, where the 2008 summer games will begin in August.
Tibet's spiritual leader Thursday said he was powerless to stop anti-Chinese violence as authorities in Beijing acknowledged for the first time that unrest had spread into neighboring Chinese provinces.
World record holder Haile Gebrselassie has again ruled out competing in the marathon at the Beijing Olympics, telling a Spanish newspaper that he would be "committing suicide" by running in unfavorable conditions.
New video from China suggests that security forces have yet to gain complete control of Tibet and neighboring provinces which have suffered eruptions of anti-Chinese violence since last week.
That sound you hear is China crackin' heads and takin' names in Tibet as it tidies up and puts on its best face before the guests arrive in August. But not everyone is willing to ignore the sound of servants being beaten in the back room while cocktails and horse doovers are served, so calls for a boycott have arisen from folks who are more than passively concerned about human rights.
Chinese Olympic officials have dismissed Ethiopian world record holder Haile Gebrselassie offer to run in the marathon in Beijing if the venue could be switched.
The sky above Beijing is getting smaller. It's an impression shared by all TV Asahi reporters who have known the city for a long time. A view of the sun setting into a vast plain is now a scene from the past.
Being a small nation with only around 20 million people, Olympic appearances have always been very important for Sri Lanka.
The pitch for softball's Olympic reinstatement goes something like this: at a time when the IOC is trying to promote women's sports, here is a team event that was voted off the Olympic program three years ago under dubious circumstances, is growing in popularity around the world, would make for good programming on NBC and could share a venue with other sports in order to save money.
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg's decision to quit the Beijing Olympics over the Darfur crisis is drawing condemnation by China's state-controlled media
Ted Owen, CEO of Santa Monica-based GGL Global Gaming (GGL), has told Fortune he has signed a deal to make video gaming an official welcome event of this summer's Beijing Olympics. A Chinese official confirms it.
On Feb. 5 a court in Hangzhou sentenced dissident journalist Lu Gengsong to four years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power" with his critical essays about the ruling Communist Party. Lu responded by yelling, "Long live democracy!" Then he was taken away.
British athletes selected for this year's Olympic Games in Beijing will be asked to sign a contract that forbids them from criticizing China's human rights record.
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 search is back on for words to the Spanish national anthem.
Marion Jones was sentenced on Friday to six months in prison, two years of probation and community service in a federal court. She had admitted lying about taking steroids and her part in a check fraud scheme
Double gold medalist Ben Ainslie headed the first nine names -- all from the sport of sailing -- officially selected for Britain's line-up at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou will consider legal action against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) if it refuses to award her Marion Jones' 100 meters gold medal from the Sydney Olympics.
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 world governing body of athletics has handed disgraced sprinter Marion Jones a two-year ban for doping and annulled all her results dating back to September 2000, including her Olympic and world championship titles.
Hi I'm Anjali Rao, coming to you from the set of a top-rated TV show in Beijing. My guest today is Olympic ambassador and prime-time presenter Yang Lan. This is Talk Asia.
AR: Yaping, good to have you on Talk Asia this week. Now you're an Olympics legend here in China. You've got four gold medals and also 14 other world championship titles. How does it feel to be hosting the Olympics in your home country?
Former European 1,500-meter champion Sureyya Ayhan has tested positive for doping and faces a lifetime ban.
The IOC (International Olympic Committee) should consider a country's record in human and animal rights, as well as its respect for the environment, before granting the said country the honor of hosting the Olympics. The 2008 Beijing Olympics is a result of polical concession and lobbying by prominent businesses. Oscar Lei, Toronto, Canada
To understand Mitt Romney's rise to become a successful CEO and governor, one must look at his early experiences in the Mormon church, including his 2½ years as a missionary.
I just finished another viewing of Marion Jones's post-guilty plea, courthouse steps press conference last Friday in suburban New York. I have to say, it took me back.
Last month, the U.S. men's basketball team qualified for next summer's Olympics by whipping a bunch of countries from the Americas, all by boxcar numbers. It would appear that we have finally figured out how to put a team and purpose together to regain the hegemony that we exhibited with the Dream Teams of the 1990s.
They are collateral damage, innocent (at least as far as we know) bystanders hit by the fallout from Marion Jones's bombshell. Their names are Jearl Miles-Clark, Monique Hennagan, La Tasha Colander-Richardson, Andrea Anderson, Nanceen Perry and Passion Richardson. They are the track stars who had the misfortune of being Jones's relay teammates during the 2000 Olympics, the Olympics in which Jones now admits that she competed with the help of performance-enhancing drugs. Did your mother ever warn you not to fall in with the wrong crowd? Marion Jones was the wrong crowd.
Disgraced track star Marion Jones has returned her Olympic medals after pleading guilty to lying to federal agents about her use of steroids, U.S. Olympic chief Peter Ueberroth said Monday.
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Track star Marion Jones pleaded guilty Friday to lying to a federal investigator about taking banned substances.
Former Olympic and world champion sprinter Marion Jones pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to federal investigators about having taken banned substances.
Twenty years ago, I got to witness Al Oerter's competitive fire in the least likely of places: a Mexican restaurant. While on assignment for another publication, I spent the day with Oerter while reporting a story about great Olympic champions (and there are none greater than Oerter, a four-time gold medalist in the discus throw between 1956 and 1968).
Two-time Olympic champion Shirley Robertson has been denied a chance to make it a hat-trick of golds at the Beijing Games next year.
Here are the key takeaways from this week's World Gymnastics championships in Stuttgart:
Prague officially entered the race Tuesday to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, joining a strong field that includes candidates from the United States, Japan and Brazil.
Here was movement sweeter than beautiful music or fine wine, a combination of speed and style that ever so briefly transcends sport. We see it rarely in person and squeeze our eyes shut to remember it in ways that YouTube cannot convey.
Mongolia is not a country known for its football prowess. But 19-year-old Lkhagvasuren Byambasuren aims to win glory in the football world for his beloved mountainous nation.
Organizers of the Beijing Olympics are looking for a few good students.
One of the best times to visit China's capital, some tourist guidebooks say, is in August, despite temperatures that can soar as high as 40 degrees Centigrade -- and despite the rain.
Despite a persistent gray haze, officials said Tuesday an exercise that removed more than 1 million private vehicles a day from Beijing's gridlocked streets was a success that could mean a clearer sky during next summer's Olympics.
On a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 2001, Alan Webb ran a mile faster than any other U.S. high school runner in history. More than 11,000 spectators rose in a frenzy to cheer the epic performance at Oregon's Hayward Field, and many more embraced it from afar. Webb clocked 3:53.43 that day, nearly two seconds faster than Jim Ryun had run 36 years earlier. World-record holder and race winner Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco invited Webb to share his victory lap. David Letterman invited him to share his stage.
City officials yanked hundreds of thousands of cars off Beijing's streets Friday to test whether a partial car ban could clear threatening smog during the 2008 Olympics
China is spending billions on high-tech systems to protect athletes, and it's raising concerns among political activists
Construction is on track for the 2008 Games, but is Beijing ready for the environmental and political challenges?
China will open its borders to a host of international visitors next year for the Olympic Games, but it may be strife within the country that causes the greatest security worries, human rights groups say.
Xe Jing is feeling nervous. "The Olympics is approaching, everyone is getting more nervous," says the 30-something Beijing cab driver. Xe has been driving around the city's streets for years. But lately, cab drivers such as Xe have been picking up some unwelcome passengers -- work colleagues sent to check on them.
Name: Suzanne Grassel School: Syracuse Age: 21 Major: Magazine journalism and sport management Job: Media Intern, USA Boxing, USOC Paid/unpaid: Paid School Credit: Yes Hours: 8-5, Monday-Friday Duration: May 30-Aug. 27 (with a week off in the middle)
At a stall in a crowded street market in Mong Kok, one of Hong Kong's many busy shopping districts, a vendor with a quick whip of his hands produces from behind a plywood wall a set of Beijing Olympics key rings. They are perfect rubber replicas of the five Olympics mascots: the Fuwas.
The Black Sea resort town will host the 2014 Winter Olympics, thanks partly to the Russian president's personal campaign
Kathleen Hersey was on the blocks for her first race of the 2007 Class A-AAAA state meet last February, and Marist (Atlanta) coach Terry Blish was nervous.
Willard Mitt Romney looks great in a suit. Which is good for him, because all day "Matinee Mitt" has been wearing a crisp, gray number. Speeches, grip-and-grin events, a veterans hall - no venue-appropriate costume changes, just pure Brooks Brothers. Even now, when it's 85 degrees and he's surrounded by people in shorts, the man won't so much as loosen his tie.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is keen for skateboarding to become an official sport at the 2012 London Games.
The jagged logo for the London 2012 Olympics has attracted a barrage of criticism, with thousands signing an online petition calling for it to be scrapped.
London 2012 Olympics chiefs have defended the newly-unveiled logo following widespread public criticism that it was 'hideous' and a waste of money.
The Austrian city of Salzburg and South Korea's Pyeongchang look to have edged ahead in a tight three-way race for the 2014 Winter Games after the International Olympic Committee said their concepts were "excellent".
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.
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