Melissa Isaacson

Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan joined the growing list of athletes testing positive for banned drugs at the Tuesday, losing her all-around gold medal after taking cold pills prescribed by her...

God will get her through, she says, and for once we are compelled to listen, to hope she is right and to hope he really is on her side. There...

Ben Harper, a 20-year-old apprentice jeweler from Wagga Wagga, Australia, was the lucky recipient of Maurice Greene's golden slipper Saturday night after the men's 100-meter final. Seconds after Greene won...

John Dantzscher, father of U.S. women's gymnast Jamie Dantzscher, is listed in critical condition at a Sydney hospital. He had brain surgery after the cab in which he was a...

Hazel Clark was the lone member of her family to advance to the women's 800-meter final, running 1 minute 59.12 seconds. Sister-in-law Jearl Miles-Clark barely missed in 1:59.44. Older sister...

It is not quite a singles bar, but it does have a disco on the premises. And a video arcade, pool tables and food, not to mention several thousand well-built,...

Jamaican Merlene Ottey, 40, was upset by .01 by teammate Tayna Lawrence, who took the bronze in the 100 meters. "She was my idol for many years," Lawrence said. "I...

In many ways, women's sports in the United States truly arrived at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. American women won five team gold medals, and the feeling was they were...

After still another Olympic disappointment in a long and weary week for U.S. gymnastics, more chances for redemption exist. Elise Ray, who finished 14th in the individual all-around finals Thursday...

It's a fairly safe bet that most Olympic swimmers aren't worried about whether they will be able to finish their races. But then, most Olympic swimmers don't worry about having...