LONDON (AP) — Oscar Pistorius of South Africa became the first amputee to compete on the track at an Olympics, finishing second in his 400-meter heat Saturday to advance to the next round.
Pistorius, a double-amputee who runs on carbon-fiber blades, …
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LONDON (AP) — One more race. Two more laps. And, in all likelihood, an 18th gold medal for Michael Phelps.
His final Olympics is turning into quite a victory lap.
Phelps will wrap up his swimming career Saturday with the butterfly leg of 4×100 medley…
LONDON (AP) — Errol Spence thought he was out of the Olympics, one last U.S. boxer done in by the vagaries of the amateur scoring system. The welterweight thought he had taken the final defeat in the worst Olympic performance ever by the American tea…
LONDON (AP) — All anyone’s talking about ahead of the men’s 100 meters is the showdown between Olympic champion Usain Bolt and world champion Yohan Blake, a pair of Jamaicans who train together.
As the premier track and field event of the London Game…
LONDON (AP) — Michael Phelps is turning his final Olympics into quite a victory lap, and don’t fret about American swimming after he’s gone.
Led by a pair of high schoolers, the post-Phelps era will be in very good hands.
In what amounted to a symbol…
LONDON (AP) — Coach Geno Auriemma is looking for little ways to improve an already dominant U.S. women’s basketball team.
His focus for Friday’s game was rebounding.
Tina Charles and her teammates got the message, then pulled down a team-record 62 re…
LONDON (AP) — The U.S. men’s boxing team is done at the Olympics.
All nine men from the most successful team in Olympic boxing history have been eliminated after losses by flyweight Rau’shee Warren and welterweight Errol Spence on Friday night, cappi…
LONDON (AP) — Well, that sure was fast.
Expectations that the London Olympics track meet would be filled with good times were quickly confirmed on Day 1, with seven sprinters running women’s 100-meter heats in 11 seconds or better Friday night, led b…
LONDON (AP) — Michael Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly at the London Games on Friday for the record 17th gold and 21st medal overall in his Olympic career.
In the final individual race of his career, Phelps was next to last at the turn but then pro…
LONDON (AP) — American teenager Missy Franklin set a world record in the 200 backstroke Friday for her third gold and fourth medal overall at the London Olympics.
Franklin clocked 2 minutes, 4.06 seconds, 0.75 quicker than the mark set by Kirsty Cove…