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The closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Games, replete with spectacle, pageantry and parades. An on-the-scene account ...

If He Kexin or other Chinese gymnasts are not 16 -- where's unassailable proof going to come from? How, NBC's Alan Abrahamson writes, practically speaking, is that going to happen?

Janet Evans watches the oldest world record in swimming fall. Hers. Set in 1989. But as Janet's mom points out: Janet is still the American record-holder.

"OK, Bosh, you can leave to go have a rest. OK, thank you," and news conferences in China are just a little different.

BEIJING -- This is, in a way that resonates time and again, what the Olympics is about.

Three American fencers went 1-2-3 Saturday in women's sabre.

The U.S. men's and women's 2008 Olympic swim team had finished dinner, had taken a team photo and had filed back into a meeting room at their Palo Alto, Calif., hotel that night, the atmosphere in the room getting drowsy, when men's coach Eddie Reese announced that breaststroker Eric Shanteau had something to say.

BEIJING -- The opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Games in all its spectacle, pageantry and color.  An on-the-scene account ...

 

David Durante is the last remaining alternate for the U.S. men's team.  "Maybe," Dave said over the telephone Friday morning in words that tear at the soul, "I'm just not supposed to be an Olympian.

 

After Morgan Hamm withdrew from the U.S. men's gymnastics team, it was abundantly clear that Sasha Artemev would replace him, not David Durante.

BEIJING - The four U.S. track cyclists who inexplicably donned surgical-style masks while proceeding Tuesday through the Beijing airport apologized Wednesday for what has to be one of the sorriest breaches of good manners any American Olympic athlete has displayed since, well, Bode Miller was boasting two years ago about being able to "party and socialize at an Olympic level."