LOS ANGELES — Swimmer Jessica Hardy will try to have her possible two-year suspension "reduced substantially" after a failed drug test cost her ...
The last two days have seen some serious complaints from the international media about China's ongoing Internet censorship, which was supposed to be s...
BRESSANONE, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI sent greetings to China on Sunday before the Olympics and said he hoped the Games would offer an example o...
SHANGHAI, China — Russia contained the speedsters. Controlled the backboards. Everything a team needs to do to beat the United States. Except st...
Monday morning, the Today show begins broadcasting from Beijing where NBC's morning show will be for the duration of the Olympic Games. Matt Lauer i...
At the first modern Olympics in 1896, events were held in the Bay of Zhea, off Piraeus. The early Olympic events included a 200m obstacle race, in whi...
The International Olympic Committee announced Monday that YouTube would be offering online coverage of the Beijing Olympics in 77 territories across A...
Sprinters, swimmers and tumblers in sequined leotards may drive T.V. ratings in the U.S., but here are five lesser-known Olympic disciplines that draw...
By not demanding a free press during the Games, the rest of the world has conspired with China, giving its government the power to censor, not just for its own people, but now for ours.
BEIJING — Morgan Hamm's eyes were red, his voice shaky. The bone spurs digging into his left leg made it impossible for him to tumble, and givi...
BEIJING — American bantamweight Gary Russell Jr. will miss the Olympics after collapsing Thursday night while trying to make weight. Russell is...
The world's best-known advocate of freedom of the media took its message to the heart of Beijing this morning, making a pirate broadcast on Chinese ra...
China's Shandong Province is struggling with an electricity crunch which is the "worst in a decade". Since June, electricity rationing has been introd...
This morning, Matt Lauer interviewed a mustached Michael Phelps on the Today show from Beijing. Phelps talked to Lauer about what it will mean to be ...
NEW DELHI — More than a thousand Tibetan exiles held protests in pouring rain Friday in New Delhi, chanting anti-China slogans and demanding fre...
New York Times' David Barboza: An ecstatic China, an ancient nation so determined to be a modern power, finally got its Olympic moment on Friday nigh...
BEIJING — Michael Phelps isn't just living up to his ridiculously high expectations. He's exceeding them. After setting an Olympic record on hi...
In Beijing's Tiananmen Square Saturday, four Tibet supporters lay motionless on the ground draped in Tibetan flags representing the bloodshed the acti...
BEIJING — Michael Phelps set a world record Sunday to win his first gold medal of the Beijing Olympics, beating rival Ryan Lochte in the 400-met...
The HuffPost Olympics Results page will give you updated Olympic results, schedules, photo, video and an up-to-the-minute medal count. For each day o...
Friday, August 15th Nadal Clinches Medal with Win Over Djokovic Rafael Nadal has clinched at least a silver medal by beating Novak Djokovic...
As the ceremony got under way with a dramatic, drummed countdown, viewers watching at home and on giant screens inside the Bird's Nest National Stadiu...
BEIJING — Michael Phelps etched his name with Mark Spitz and Carl Lewis among the winningest Olympians ever Tuesday. With three gold medals and ...
BEIJING — Michael Phelps won his third gold medal and record-tying ninth of his career Tuesday, breaking his own world record in the 200-meter f...
BEIJING — China won the gold medal it has long craved in men's gymnastics Tuesday, while the Americans settled for bronze. China's score of 286...
