When Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympic Games in July 2001, a seven-year journey began, culminating in the grand opening in ...

Looking back, the impetus that continues to modernize Beijing started 25 years ago, on July 13, 2001, the day Juan Antonio Samaranch, then president of the International Olympic Committee, uttered ...

In the mid-2000s, Team USA men's basketball was in poor shape. It had just won a mere bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and narrowly avoided a semifinal round loss in the 2000 Olympics, and ...

Every four years, countries all around the world gather their nation’s top athletes in each sport to compete at the Olympics The United States men’s basketball team has been the most successful team ...

Jerry Colangelo still remembers all the meetings. They were in 2005 and 2006, sit-down sessions, often over breakfast, with the likes of Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony and ...

Light Welterweight (139 lb/64 kg): Gennady Kovalev (Russia) UD-4 Maimaitituersun Qiong (China), 15-8 Richarno Colin (Mauritius) UD-4 Myke Carvalho (Brazil), 15-11 Driss Moussaid (Morocco) UD-4 Todd ...

The 2008 Beijing Olympics were a watershed moment for men’s swimming in the United States and globally. Sixteen years later, the 2008 Games are perhaps best remembered for Michael Phelps’ dominant ...

Take a look at the history of ancient and modern Olympic games including the locations, winners list, medal tally and results ...