Nesterenko of Belarus wins women&#39;s 100m Olympic gold
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Belarus&#39; Yuliya Nesterenko became the fastest woman in the world, winning the 100m gold medal at the Olympic Games here Saturday evening.
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Lioubov Galkina sets an Olympic record as she wins the women's 50m rifle three positions.
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New Zealander Sarah Ulmer broke the world record in winning the women&#39;s 3000-meter individual pursuit gold medal at the Athens Olympics on Sunday.
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Jang Ji-Won won South Korea&#39;s first taekwondo gold medal at the Olympics by beating American Nia Abdallah 2-1 in the women&#39;s featherweight final.
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Minsk- Olympic 100 metres champion Yuliya Nesterenko has been taken to hospital after suffering stomach problems and stress, an official said on Tuesday.
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Kelly Holmes won the women&#39;s 1,500 meters to become the third woman to win that race and the 800 meters at the same Olympics. The 34-year-old runner from the UK added the metric-mile gold medal in 3 minutes, 57.
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World champion Paul Hamm fell from first to 12th with a shocking stumble on his vault landing, then made an astonishing rally in the last two events to win the Olympic men&#39;s all-around gold medal on Wednesday.
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Michael Phelps wins the gold Friday in the 100-meter butterfly with an Olympic-record time, his fifth gold medal of the Athens Games.
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ATHENS When Carly Patterson of the United States stepped onto the mat for the floor exercises that would close the women&#39;s all-round gymnastics competition on Thursday, the name of Svetlana Khorkina glowed golden at the top of the scoreboard above the ...
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The United States broke the world record to win the men&#39;s 4x100 meters medley relay at the Athens Olympics Saturday and allow Michael Phelps to match Soviet gymnast Alexander
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American Justin Gatlin won the Olympic 100 metres Sunday night, and China, in a race almost as close, picked up four gold medals to edge ahead of the United States after nine days of competition at the Athens Olympics.
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Carly Patterson upstaged Russian diva  Svetlana Khorkina to become the first American in 20 years to  win the women's Olympic gymnastics all-round gold medal on  Thursday.
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American Tyson Gay surged past  Jamaica&#39;s Asafa Powell to win gold in the men&#39;s 100 meters at  the world championships on Sunday.
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Dana Antal took a pass from Danielle Goyette and scored the third-period winner as Canada defeated the United States 2-1 for the gold medal in the Four Nations Cup international women&#39;s hockey tournament Sunday.
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More than five minutes would ultimately be required to determine that Veronica Campbell of Jamaica was the gold medalist of the womenâs 100 meters.
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Hungary&#39;s Zsuzsanna Voros won the gold medal in the women&#39;s modern pentathlon in Athens Friday to add the Olympic title to her three world championships.
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Outsider Athanasia Tsoumeleka snatched the women&#39;s Olympic 20km race walk title after a thrilling finish to give hosts Greece their first athletics gold of the Games.