Mexican President shows optimismn about winning medals at Beijing

The president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, expresed his wish to have his athletes collecting victories at the Olympic Games in Beijing during his first visit oficial visit to the Asian country. Mexico is sending a...

Team GB Victory Parade: Thousands Turn Out as Olympians Meet HM the Queen

LONDON today set the scene for Olympics 2012 as "Team GB" home-coming sportsmen and women - all 599 of them - paraded through central London to a rally at Trafalagar Square and greeted by...

Usain Bolt Could Have Run 9.55 Says Physicist

While most of the scientific community is looking into a creation of the universe at CERN, obviously there remain many other mysteries to unravel. "OSLO, Norway - Usain Bolt could have run the 100-metre Olympic...

Chrétien's criticism "hypocritical," Harper says

It is "a bit hypocritical" for Jean Chrétien, who only attended one Olympics, to criticize Harper for skipping the Beijing Games, Harper replied today. Besides, the Prime Minister has work to do, elections to...

US women’s soccer team grabs Olympic gold

It was dramatic. And, all it took was a single goal. Carli Lloyd brought US team to victory with a left-footer in overtime. Despite missing three key players and facing a very strong Brazilian team, team USA beat...

Of Marathon Golds, Closing Ceremonies and Kenya's best Olympic performance ever

h/t @jollyrulezIn a conversation with a @jollyrulez yesterday, he just made me realize that the only Olympic medals given out during the closing ceremony were all claimed by African Marathon runners - ensuring...

GB 14 Year-Old Tom Daley Finishes 7th as Australia's Mitcham Snatches Gold fr...

Tom Daley has finished seventh in his event on the 10m platform today as Australia's Matthew Mitcham made some gasp-inspiring perfect dives to snatch victory from the jaws of crowd favourite, Zhou of...