... incredibly highly regarded and his performance is still something people talk about." Phelps won eight gold medals at the Beijing Games and Subway signed him to a deal not long afterward. The first ad will roll out Sunday as he prepares to compete ...

... tests during the Beijing Olympics, including nearly 1,000 blood screenings. Six athletes tested positive during the Beijing Games. Three additional cases became known after the games and are still pending. Rulings on the cases of Belarusian ...

... on a bus in China six months ago after the U.S. Olympic basketball team defeated Spain to win the gold medal at the Beijing Games. Even now, Bryant can close his eyes and see LeBron James, Chris Paul, Dwight Howard, Jason Kidd, whooping ...

... from a marijuana pipe. In a statement to The Associated Press, the swimmer who won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Games did not dispute the authenticity of the exclusive picture published Sunday by the tabloid News of the World. "I ...

... surfaced in the British tabloid News of the World on Feb. 1. The swimmer, who won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Games, never disputed its authenticity. Lott said the person who took the photo sold it for $100,000. He would not ...

There is something bizarre yet familiar about the fact that China's crackdown in Tibet has provoked more discussions on the fate of the Beijing Summer Olympics than on Tibet itself. The Games are supposed to be China's coming-out party as a 21st-century economic superpower. The brutality of the clampdown on the Tibetan ...

BEIJING China didn't just walk onto the world stage. It soared over it.

... Wednesday to witness the flame's symbolic journey to the Beijing Games. Faced with massive crowds of both pro- and anti ... Olympic history, and is meant to build excitement for the Beijing Games. But it has also been targeted by activists ...

... enabled ordinary Chinese and foreigners to share in the immense tragedy. More than just knocking bad press about the Beijing games out of the news, the disaster has given China and the world a chance to reassess. Foreign audiences, especially ...

NEW YORK Activists holding signs reading "Genocide: It's the real thing" demonstrated outside Coca-Cola Co.'s offices in Manhattan on Friday as part of a nationwide protest targeting several Beijing Olympic sponsors for failing to press China to help end the violence in Darfur.