Olympic organizers intend to “bear down” on costs in the wake of the global financial crisis and do everything possible to avoid overruns on the $17 billion...

International gymnastics officials aren’t the only ones who want more information on two members of China’s 2000 Olympic team.

Mayor Boris Johnson says authorities must speed up planning for security at London’s 2012 Olympic games.

Misty May-Treanor is too hurt to keep dancing. The 31-year-old “Dancing with the Stars” contestant and Olympic gold medalist volleyball player appeared at...

IOC president Jacques Rogge says the global financial crisis should not hurt preparations for upcoming Olympics.

Nicole Cooke of Britain has added the world road race title to her Olympic gold by beating prerace favorite Marianne Vos of the Netherlands in a sprint finish.

Not unlike judges at Olympic gymnastic events, the board of Cisco Systems Inc. assigns numerical grades to the performance of the company’s executives. Chief...

A quick-smiling former Olympic skeetshooter with a penchant for tailored suits and manga comic books took power as Japan’s third prime minister in two years...

Olympic organizers issued detailed design rules for the 2012 London games Wednesday, including a mandate that at least some toilets in the Olympic park do not face the...

Olympic bronze medalist Bershawn Jackson of the United States won the 400-meter hurdles Tuesday at the Super Track and Field meet.

After building an Olympic gold medal-winning team, Jerry Colangelo might make a run at another championship with USA Basketball.

The United States has been disqualified from its fourth-place finish in the Olympic team dressage event for a positive drug test.

The president of Argentina’s Olympic Committee has resigned amid questioning about his role in the country’s military dictatorship.

The Olympic flame is out, the smog is back, and traffic again clogs the roads.

Winning an Olympic gold medal helped Roger Federer turn around his difficult year.

Asafa Powell cruised to victory in the 100 meters and Olympic champion LaShawn Merritt won the 400 Saturday at the World Athletics Final, which included a world record...

An Israeli Cabinet minister called the Chinese ambassador Wednesday to apologize after Israel’s only Beijing Olympics medalist used a curse to describe the...

With more goals than minutes in the game, Slovakia’s women’s ice hockey team claimed an amazing 82-0 victory over Bulgaria in Olympic qualifying.

There’s the “agony of defeat.” And then there’s this women’s ice hockey score from the European Olympic pre-qualifying tournament:...

U.S. boxing coach Dan Campbell retired Friday after his attempt to remake the American team backfired in Beijing with its worst showing in Olympic history.