The Bahrain Olympic Committee said Wednesday that 1,500-meter gold medalist Rashid Ramzi tested positive for doping at the Beijing Games. Complete Story...
The Italian Olympic Committee confirmed Wednesday that Olympic cycling silver medalist Davide Rebellin tested positive for doping at the Beijing Games.
The German cycling federation said Wednesday that Stefan Schumacher is one of the six athletes who tested positive for CERA at the Beijing Olympics.
With a gold medalist in one its top events busted for doping at the Beijing Games, the troubled sport of track and field is once again at the center of an Olympic drug scandal.
Olympic gold medalists claimed the top three spots in both the male and female categories in the final vote tally for the United States Sports Academy’s Athlete of the Year, presented by NBCSports.com and USAToday.com.
Usain Bolt wasn’t the only man in Beijing last summer to cover 100 meters under his own power faster than anyone ever had before. The other man who made locomotive history isn’t nearly as well remembered, but he should be. Without him, Michael Phelps doesn’t beat Mark Spitz, doesn’t win eight gold medals and isn’t the greatest swimmer who ever lived.
BEIJING – The number eight is considered so auspicious here that the Chinese leadership decided to launch the Summer Olympic Games at 8 p.m. on the eighth day of the eighth month of the year.
About 500 doping samples from the Beijing Olympics will be retested next month for a new version of the endurance-enhancing hormone EPO and other illegal substances, the IOC said Tuesday.
More than two out of three people worldwide tuned in for the Beijing Olympics.
Mike Krzyzewski always maintained that leading the U.S. Olympic basketball team would make him a changed coach. Sure enough, Coach K was there on the sideline in Beijing and he stopped himself from saying something he otherwise might have.
Acrobats on cables flying across a giant stadium. Hundreds of performers executing synchronized martial arts punches and kicks. A giant globe signifying unity as a grand finale.
An activist group says up to eight pro-Tibet protesters have been detained by police near an Olympics venue.
For one old China hand, the Beijing Olympics are a special homecoming.
It all began when my colleague Steve's favorite noodle lady was forced to close down. Soon after, the Popsicle lady was gone, followed by the scary fruit guy.
Some secrets are out for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. One big one remains.
Polluted Beijing is usually shrouded in gray, so for the Olympics, Beijing city officials have tried to add some color.
The International Olympic Committee says Iraq will not compete at the Beijing Games because of interference by its government in sport.
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius fell short of the 400-meter qualifying time for the Beijing Olympics despite running a personal best Wednesday.
Dirk Nowitzki scored 16 points to lead Germany to a 104-68 win over Cape Verde in its opening game of Olympic qualification Tuesday.
Faced with my blank look of incomprehension, the taxi driver took a deep breath and tried again.
This ancient capital city, long known for the architectural splendor of its centuries-old palaces and temples, is getting a new look that could have been plucked from science fiction.
Plans to divert water to Beijing for the Olympic Games are shortsighted and will not ease the city's severe water crisis, a Canadian-based development policy group said in a study released Thursday.
China had mobilized a 100,000-strong anti-terrorism force to guard against threats to the Beijing Olympics, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday.
When Olympic marathon runners pass through Beijing's historic Qianmen neighborhood this August, the gray-brick storefronts with red and gold curved eaves will only look like traditional Chinese architecture.
TEN-YEAR-OLD Xu Weining had been taking Olympiad mathematics classes held at his school in Beijing for over a year.
DUANJIALING, China — Less than a year ago, officials were pressing mines and factories along this limestone belt of northern China to shut down or move away to clear the air of dust and smog for the Beijing Olympics.
THE FIRST child from the Republic to receive revolutionary stem-cell treatment for a rare disorder affecting the optic nerve will travel to China next week for the procedure.
China executed two people Thursday for what a court described as an attempt to sabotage the Beijing Olympics with an attack in the far-west region of Xinjiang that killed 17 police, state media reported.
China has reopened Tibet to foreign tourists, state media said Sunday, almost two months after imposing a ban ahead of politically sensitive anniversaries.
The Chinese government has denied having any relationship with "a malware-based cyber espionage network" called GhostNet, an operation revealed Sunday by a Toronto-based research team.
Chinese state media said for the first time Thursday that Tibet protests have spread to other provinces.
The U.S. Navy ship that got into a scrape with five Chinese vessels last weekend in the South China Sea was looking for threats such as submarines — presumably Chinese — in waters that China claims as its own, defense officials acknowledged Tuesday.
In an exclusive interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, Olympic champion Michael Phelps speaks out candidly about the night he was photographed allegedly smoking marijuana. "I realize that that hurt a lot of people," the athlete said of the scandal.
China responds sharply to Washington's accusations over a confrontation at sea, an incident that analysts said could become more common as Beijing asserts claims to adjacent waters.
NATO may ask China to provide support for the war effort in Afghanistan, including possibly opening a supply link for alliance forces, a senior U.S. official said Monday.
This time of year sees a semi-ritualised exchange between China and the United States. On Wednesday, the US State Department published its 2008 Human Rights report. The report includes a 47,000-word section on human rights problems in China:
Beijing, Feb 17 (Xinhua) About 1,500 cars join the already clogged roads in this Chinese capital city daily, increasing traffic pressure and safety risks, officials said Tuesday.
These words from me today will be finally revealed one day. They will expose the true face of today's China and will disclose the unimaginable heart and characteristics of the "ruling party" in China.
Can you imagine buying a camera, shooting film, editing your content, and handing in a final result in less than 12 hours? A small group of reports from the Guardian did. Their project is titled 'One Night In Beijing'.
The Port of Los Angeles said Wednesday it plans to cancel a controversial contract with a Chinese company to buy an X-ray unit designed to scan cargo for dangerous devices.
A senior U.S. diplomat said Wednesday that relations with China would strengthen further, as the countries played a game of table tennis to commemorate 30 years of ties warmed by "pingpong diplomacy."
A woman suspected of being infected with bird flu has died in Beijing, the local health bureau said on Tuesday of what would be the first bird flu death in the country in almost a year. The woman died on Monday. Her age was not known, Xinhua news agency said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Four months after successfully holding the Summer Olympics in Beijing, China is mulling a bid to host the 2018 Winter Games in the frigid northern city of Harbin, state media said on Thursday, quoting a government official.
Four months after successfully holding the Summer Olympics in Beijing, China is mulling a bid to host the 2018 Winter Games in the frigid northern city of Harbin, state media said on Thursday, quoting a government official.
A pair of giant pandas arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday as a gift from rival China, another symbolic step forward in the two sides' rapidly improving relations.
Former Olympic champion Sergei Alifirenko, who pulled out of the Beijing Games citing an eye injury, was handed a two-year doping ban, the Russian shooting union (SSR) said on Wednesday.
Of course, it turned out that Rush wasn't praising Hillary, but Obama's cunning at keeping his enemy close.