WEMBLEY, England (AP) — Mexico is celebrating its first Olympic gold medal in men’s soccer, and Brazil is wondering if it will ever be able to add the title to its long list of triumphs.
Oribe Peralta scored only 29 seconds into the Olympic final at …
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LONDON (AP) — Mike Krzyzewski says the gold-medal game against Spain will be his last as coach of the U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team.
Krzyzewski had left open the possibility of staying with the team beyond the London Games, but at practice on Sa…
LONDON (AP) — Missy Franklin is still leaning toward college over cash. For now, anyway.
A winner of four gold medals in swimming at the London Olympics, the 17-year-old from Colorado said Saturday that she’s still leaning toward entering college in …
LONDON (AP) — U.S. Olympic leaders and their athletes are having such a great time at the London Games, they’d like to host a party like this, too, someday soon.
“We think the games need to come to America, and the sooner, the better,” Larry Probst, …
LONDON (AP) — Soccer’s governing body is reviewing evidence that a South Korea player displayed his country’s flag with a political slogan on it after the team beat Japan in the Olympic men’s football bronze-medal match.
South Korea defeated Japan 2-…
LONDON (AP) — Even Jean Lopez is not sure if his family will be able to stay in the Olympic taekwondo business.
Someone from the Texas-based family of four fighting siblings has competed in each of the last four Olympics, and the clan has combined to…
LONDON (AP) — Brazil has a rich legacy in soccer, and some of the best players in the game have proudly competed in its jersey. What it doesn’t have is an Olympic gold.
Mexico, which faces the team Saturday in the men’s gold medal game, believes that…
LONDON (AP) — Olympic silver medalist Bryshon Nellum will carry the U.S. flag at Sunday’s closing ceremony of the London Olympics.
Nellum was told by doctors that he might never be an elite athlete again after he was shot in the legs while leaving a …
CARDIFF, Wales (AP) — Park Chu-young scored a brilliant individual goal to lead South Korea to a 2-0 victory over Japan on Friday and a bronze medal in Olympic men’s soccer.
It was South Korea’s first medal in the competition, and also the first by a…
LONDON (AP) — Alsi Cakir Alptekin led Gamze Bulut in a 1-2 finish for Turkey in the Olympic women’s 1,500-meters Friday night.
European champion Alptekin, who served a two-year suspension for doping after the 2004 world junior championships, won the …