LONDON (AP) — Judo officials say talks are ongoing to let a woman judo athlete compete for Saudi Arabia this week after they previously announced she would not be allowed to wear a headscarf in competition.
Saudi Arabia sent its two first female Olym…
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LONDON (AP) — A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of posting malicious Twitter messages directed at British Olympic diver Tom Daley, U.K. police said Tuesday.
The first tweet told Daley that he let his dad down with his synchronized diving perf…
LONDON (AP) — Michael Phelps is chasing more Olympic history in his next two events at the London Games. Winning medals in the 200-meter butterfly and a relay would let him get it done in the same night.
Phelps goes into Tuesday night’s fly final wit…
LONDON (AP) — American teenager Missy Franklin won the women’s 100-meter backstroke at the London Olympics on Monday.
Franklin won the two-lap race in 58.33 seconds for her first Olympic gold and second medal after taking bronze in the 4×100 freestyl…
LONDON (AP) — A Swiss soccer player was expelled from the Olympics on Monday for his threatening and racist message on Twitter about South Koreans. The comments by Michel Morganella came hours after Switzerland lost to South Korea.
Morganella “discri…
LONDON (AP) — French coach Pierre Vincent wants to keep his team grounded.
It may be hard to after France pulled off one of the biggest wins in team history, shocking Australia in the Olympic women’s basketball tournament.
France survived Belinda Sne…
LONDON (AP) — The coach of reigning world champion Jordyn Wieber says it’s an “injustice” the American won’t be included in Thursday’s Olympic all-around finals.
Wieber finished fourth during qualifying Sunday, but will miss a shot at Olympic gold be…
LONDON (AP) — The queen’s granddaughter Zara Phillips heads into the grueling heart of the Olympic equestrian eventing competition Monday, racing her horse around a twisting course in London’s oldest royal park that’s been outfitted with 28 fences, h…
LONDON (AP) — Alin George Moldoveanu of Romania won the Olympic gold medal in 10-meter air rifle Monday after tying the Olympic qualifying record.
The victory made up for missing a Beijing Games medal in the same event by 2 millimeters.
Moldoveanu an…
LONDON (AP) — London’s overstretched transit system creaked and groaned but appeared to be coping with the strain on the first working day of the Olympics.
Monday morning’s rush hour was the biggest test yet of the host city’s transport network, as s…