Thursday began and ended on a golden moment for the U.S. However, in between was a lot of Olympic heartbreak for American athletes. ...more

August 22, 2008

With silver medals swinging from their necks, their eyes filled with tears, five members of the U.S. Olympic softball team walked to home plate and placed their cleats in the dirt. ...more

August 22, 2008

Olympic athletes devote their lives to sports, often sacrificing creature comforts and material desires in order to sharpen their bodies and talents for that one moment in front of the world where they stand atop a podium wearing a gold medal proving they are the best on the planet at what they do. ...more

August 20, 2008

TAMPA - Moments after finishing a mere hundredth of a second from winning her first Olympic medal, Tampa's Damu Cherry sat inside Beijing's National Stadium with U.S. teammate Dawn Harper. ...more

August 20, 2008

Brandon's Chris Colwill decided to leave it all in the pool of the Olympic men's 3-meter diving finals Tuesday night in Beijing. He did that by performing a list of six dives that, when combined, was the highest degree of difficulty in the competition. ...more

August 20, 2008

Brandon's Chris Colwill decided to leave it all in the pool of the Olympic men's 3-meter diving finals Tuesday night in Beijing by performing a list of six dives that, when combined, was the highest degree of difficulty of any of his competition. ...more

August 19, 2008

NBC had 26.8 million viewers Sunday on the first day of Beijing Olympics AP (that's After Phelps). That's still a little higher than the comparable night in Athens four years ago. ...more

August 19, 2008

Michael Phelps kept every swimsuit, every cap, every pair of goggles he wore during nine magical days at the Water Cube. Every memory will be savored, too, from goofing off with his U.S. teammates to bowing his head not one, not two, but eight times to receive a gold medal at the Beijing Games. ...more

August 19, 2008

Once more, the gold medal was within Shawn Johnson's reach. Again, it was snatched away. ...more

August 18, 2008

Once again, American shooter Matt Emmons chose to be philosophical. ...more

August 18, 2008