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San Diego-Tijuana pursue longshot Olympics bid

As they mount a longshot bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, San Diego and Tijuana are playing down their shortcomings by playing up a new spirit of cross-border civic pride.

Billy Baldwin fights to save Olympic wrestling

Actor and wrestling advocate Billy Baldwin is hoping his notoriety and Hollywood connections can help keep the sport on the Olympic program.

Wrestling considers changing singlet for Olympics

Russia, a traditional wrestling powerhouse and homeland of the great Alexander Karelin, has been among the most active countries fighting for the sport's Olympic future.

Waiting on Kyrie word; Rivers and Popovich could be Olympics bound

Waiting on Kyrie word; Rivers and Popovich could be Olympics bound

Chicago Tribune: US short-track speedskating is spinning into chaos

"Normally, after the Olympic years you have a six-figure surplus, and now we had a six-figure deficit," said Carl Cepuran, a coach at a Glen Ellyn skating club and a federation employee at the time.

Finch, Brown hope Olympics lead to NBA head jobs

There are things we picked up that he did during the Olympics that we've added to our offense and that kind of thing.

Colleges could feel impact of losing wrestling from Olympics

This one is that the loss of wrestling from the Olympics would provide another convenient reason to drop the sport - a better one, in many ways, because it would steer clear of gender issues.

Column: Don't jump to conclusions on Pistorius

An athlete with prosthetic limbs competing at the Olympic Games?

Wrestling has just begun to fight back in attempt to remain in Olympics

Citing its presumed quadrennial mandate to modernize and invigorate the Olympics, the board voted to recommend dropping wrestling from the Games beginning in 2020.

Pistorius lived out dream by running at Olympics

By the time the London Olympics came around, Pistorius made the grade, and he could barely believe that he would become the first double amputee to compete on the track at the Olympics.

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"For two days, I was in really bad shape," said Vlasic, who finished runner-up at the 2008...

MINNEAPOLIS: Vikings see the light with design of new stadium

Like the aquatics center in Beijing built for the 2008 Summer Olympics, the southern half of the...

MELBOURNE, Australia: Royal Melbourne to host World Cup in November

The World Cup will use an individual, stroke-play format and a team component akin to that to be...

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Ralph Lauren: The Olympic Games Collection - USA Olympic Games Sweatshirt

Browsing on ThisNext

If you are going to attend this years summer 2008 Beijing Olympics, this is one of the...

Mario & Sonic At The Olympics Coming To Wii U

The next Mario & Sonic At The Olympics game is coming to the Wii U.

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NBC: Olympic Ad Sales Are Strong

NBC Says Olympic Ad Sales Are Strong

Mitt Romney building a house in Utah

For years, he owned a Deer Valley vacation home where he stayed while running the 2002 Winter...

U.S., Iran and Russia Unite to Save Olympic Wrestling

The executive board of the International Olympic Committee recommended in February that...