With more than 10,000 athletes competing during the London Olympics in just over 300 events, the vast majority of Olympians were always going to go ho...

Iconic Alabama football coach Bear Bryant was lauded for exhorting player to "act like they've been there before" when reaching the endzone. While thi...

How will you remember the London Olympics? Will it be the pomp of Opening and Closing ceremonies? The circumstances of Oscar Pistorius' Olympic de...

LONDON — Most medals, most gold medals. The U.S. got what it wanted from these Olympics. So did Britain, riding the wave of home-field advantag...

LONDON — France's lead was trimmed to one on three occasions, and it responded each time. The French became the first men's handball team to wi...

LONDON -- Cael Sanderson spent the past seven years teaching Jake Varner how to be a world champion – and he was there Sunday when Varner joined...

LONDON -- Stephen Kiprotich rounded a corner late in the race and simply took off. A surprise surge from a surprise winner. So swift and unexpected...

LONDON — David Boudia used to be scared to dive off the 10-meter platform. Yet when it counted the most, he never flinched. The American plunge...

LONDON — The names change, not the results. Just call the U.S. women's basketball team Olympic champion – again. The Americans won their ...

LONDON — Destinee wasn't enough. Brazil denied the United States its first Olympic gold medal in women's volleyball Saturday in a 3-1 upset tha...

LONDON — Elena Lashmanova of Russia set a world record in the 20-kilometer race walk on Saturday, overtaking defending champion Olga Kaniskina t...

LONDON -- A female hurdler from Syria was kicked out of the London Olympics on Saturday after failing a drug test. The IOC said 400-meter hurdler Ghf...

LONDON -- With a surge of medals in track and field, the United States has sprinted ahead of China and is poised to finish atop the medals table at th...

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Throngs of Jamaicans erupted with shouts of joy Thursday as Usain Bolt and two of his countrymen swept the men's 200-meter race a...

LONDON -- BMX rider Squel Stein of Brazil crashed during Friday's semifinals of the BMX competition and was taken from the course on a stretcher. Ste...

LONDON — French runner Hassan Hirt tested positive for the blood-booster EPO, an official with knowledge of the result told The Associated Press...

Not every event during the Summer Olympics can have the high-wattage star power of basketball or soccer or feature the unbridled athleticism of track,...

WEMBLEY, England — Abby Wambach didn't put on her "Greatness Has Been Found" T-shirt right away. She instead strayed from her teammates and knel...

LONDON — The United States won its first gold medal in women's water polo, getting five goals from Maggie Steffens and a sterling performance fr...

BRUSSELS -- The Belgian Olympic Committee says it has told cyclist Gijs van Hoecke to leave the Olympics after photos appeared of him looking drunk an...

COVENTRY, England — Diana Matheson scored in injury time Thursday to give Canada the Olympic bronze medal in women's soccer with a 1-0 victory o...

Another day at the London Olympics brought with it another flood of memorable moments on the fields -- and courts -- of play and another set of captiv...

LONDON — Misty May-Treanor danced on the sand and then off it, leaving Horse Guards Parade with Kerri Walsh Jennings and a third gold medal. Pl...