Tag: Olympic
Olympic bus driver bailed following fatal collision
The driver of an Olympics media shuttle bus was bailed by police on Thursday following a fatal collision with a cyclist just outside London's...
All eyes on Bolt-Blake sprint duel in athletics
The countdown towards what is being hyped as the fastest race in history begins on Friday as the Olympic athletics gets under way with...
Strange performance enhancing drugs taken by Olympians in history
Forget anabolic steroids in easy-to-swallow tablets, or EPO in clean syringes. Ancient Olympic dopers got their pre-Games hormone boost from chewing on raw animal...
Olympic Games August 2 schedule
Olympic Games schedule for Thursday, August 2
Rowing (0830): Women's Single Sculls Semifinals, Men's Double Sculls Finals, Lightweight Men's Four Finals, Men's Four Semifinals,...
Malik says The Sun reporter will be brought to Pakistan
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Wednesday that Mohammad Ali Asad, the central character of Olympic visa scam, would be brought to Pakistan with...
Longest set in Olympic tennis hisotry
The longest set in Olympic history was played when Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France defeated Milos Raonic of Canada 6-3, 3-6, 25-23 in the second...
‘Sky’s the limit but focus not on Bolt’
The sky's the limit but the focus is most definitely not on Usain Bolt, according to Yohan Blake, the fastest man in the world...
Unstoppable Serena powers into last 8
Wimbledon champion Serena Williams swept into the Olympic quarter-finals with a 6-1, 6-0 rout of Russia's Vera Zvonareva on Wednesday. Williams is bidding to...
Olympic golden girl lifts US massacre town
A bloody movie theater massacre cast a shadow over this corner of Colorado, but the golden Olympic performance of local teenager Missy Franklin has...
World champion answers threats to China dominance
Gold medal favourite Zhang Jike scotched suggestions that new regulations would challenge China's dominance of the Olympic table tennis tournament on Monday with an...
Olympics: Lochte chases more gold on day three
Ryan Lochte will target his second gold medal on day three of the Olympics here Monday as America's swimmers attempt to bounce back from...
British team ‘confident’ despite first day blank
The British Olympic team's morale remains high despite the home squad's hopes for opening day medals being dashed, their chief insisted Sunday.
Hosts Britain were...
Taking on Spain, odds stacked against Team Pakistan
Once the most artistic, the most feared and the most dazzling at the Olympic or any hockey field, the mantle of Asian standard-bearer sat...
Top 5 Olympic stadiums of all time
Historians trace the origins of the Olympic Stadium back to the 8th Century BC. The 1896 games in Athens marked the return of the...
New Zealand set world rowing record
New Zealand's Hamish Bond and Eric Murray set a new men's pairs rowing world record in the Olympic heats Saturday, smashing the mark held...
Opening ceremony grapples with social issues
A celebration of free healthcare, the trade union struggle, the battle for women's rights and a fleeting lesbian kiss: the Olympics opening ceremony Friday...
