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IOC to mull over resolution ending US revenue deal

Sports | Olympics
2009-3-26

A resolution to end a long-standing revenue-sharing contract between the US Olympic Committee and the IOC was presented to Olympic chief Jacques Rogge yesterday, raising the prospect of a revised deal. Olympic...

Relative of coach murdered

National
2008-8-10

A CHINESE man stabbed to death a relative of a coach for the United States Olympic men's indoor volleyball team at a tourist site in Beijing yesterday. The man then committed suicide by throwing himself from the...

US coach tips team as best

Sports | Athletics
2008-6-27

THE US Olympic women's athletics coach on Wednesday predicted that the country will have its strongest team ever at the Beijing Games. And that's before she even knows who'll be on the team. "This will be...

Olympian reunites with dad

Sport | Skiing
2007-3-1

US Olympic skiing medalist Toby Dawson hugged his weeping Korean father yesterday when the two met for the first since he went missing 25 years ago as a toddler in a busy street market in South Korea. Dawson, 28,...

DOPING

Sport | Doping
2006-5-19

CAPPING a year of sports drug scandals, the US Olympic Committee announced that sprint champion Kelli White and six other American athletes tested positive for banned substances.

Rink named in Brooks honor

Sport | Ice hockey
2005-11-7

THE rink where the US Olympic hockey team earned a stunning gold-medal victory 25 years ago was renamed on Wednesday the Herb Brooks Arena in honor of the team's late coach. Brooks was killed in a car accident in August 2003 at age 66.

Spiker sentenced

Sport | Volleyball
2004-9-2

A MEMBER of the US Olympic men's volleyball team was given a 15-month suspended sentence by an Athens court yesterday for a weekend assault involving a police officer. Clay Stanley, 26, said he was drunk at the time apologized for Sunday's scuffle, which occurred at a nightclub following Athens' Olympic closing ceremony.

Ado about ad

Sport | Olympics
2004-8-27

THE US Olympic Committee has asked President George W Bush's re-election campaign to pull a television ad that mentions the Olympics, the committee said yesterday. After reviewing the ad, the USOC's legal team "formally requested they withdraw the ad," said Darryl Seibel, spokesman for the committee. The ad shows a swimmer and the flags of Iraq and Afghanistan. An announcer says: "In 1972, there were 40 democracies in the world. Today, 120. Freedom is spreading throughout the world like a sunrise. And this Olympics there will be two more free nations. And two fewer terrorist regimes." Some of the players on the Iraqi Olympic soccer team have complained about the ad appearing as part of a political campaign.

USOC to fight for relay team

Sport | Doping
2004-8-12

US sports authorities will try to prevent world track officials from stripping the gold medals of Michael Johnson and other members of the 4x400-meter relay team from the Sydney Olympics, the head of the US Olympic Committee said on Tuesday.

Invincible Jones is beatable

Sport | Athletics
2004-7-15

Once nearly invincible, Marion Jones is becoming more beatable with each event at the US Olympic trials.Jones, who won an unprecedented five medals at the 2000 Sydney Games and had talked of trying to match that haul in Athens, could go home empty-handed 鈥?if she goes to the Summer Games at all.