Wariner wins 400 as United States sweeps medals
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Jeremy Wariner kept alive US tradition in the 400 meters, winning gold Monday night and leading an American sweep of the medals. Wariner, 20, became the sixth straight American to win the Olympic title by finishing in 44.
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American Jennifer Rodriguez wins the women's World Sprint Speedskating Championship Sunday, becoming the first U.S. skater in nine years to win the event.
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ATHENS, Greece - Tyler Hamilton&#39;s greatest ride capped the finest Olympic day for US cycling, which won three of the six medals awarded in Wednesday&#39;s road time trials - surpassing its two total road medals won since the 1984 Games in Los ...
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With Jeremy Wariner leading the way, the United States pulled off the first medal sweep of the Olympics Monday night in the 400-meter run.
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The United States swept the Olympic  medals in the men's 400 meters Monday and Briton Kelly Holmes  ended years of frustration to beat friend and foe Maria Mutola  in the women's 800 meters.
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* With star swimmer Michael Phelps watching from the stands after giving his spot to teammate Ian Crocker, the United States won gold in the men&#39;s 400-meter medley relay in a world-record time of 3:30.
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Allyson Felix and Jeremy Wariner defended their world championship titles in the fastest times of their careers in Japan on Friday.
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The US women&#39;s softball team has finished a dominating performance at the Olympics by capturing the gold medal. The Americans had little trouble with Australia in the final Monday, cruising to a 5-1 victory.
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Training partners Sanya Richards and Jeremy Wariner won the Jesse Owens Award as the top USA Track & Field athletes of the year on Tuesday.
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ATHENS, Greece - The United States won the men's 400-meter medley relay in world-record time Saturday night, giving Michael Phelps his record eighth medal of the Athens Olympics without him getting into the pool.    Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen, Ian Crocker and Jason Lezak won in 3 minutes, 30.68 seconds, lowering the old mark of 3:31.54 set by the Americans at last year's world championships in Barcelona, Spain...
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Now this was a duel in the pool. With Michael Phelps leading off Tuesday night, the United States bested its top rival in the most thrilling race of the Athens Games. Klete Keller held off Ian Thorpe and finished the Australians with a lunge for the wall that gave the Americans a gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle relay. The margin was only 13-hundredths of a second.
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Sarah Ulmer of New Zealand continued her dominance of pursuit racing Sunday, breaking her own world record to win the Olympic gold medal.
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Michael Phelps, of the United States, holds his gold medal after setting an Olympic-record 1:57.14 in the 200-meter individual medley at the Olympic Aquatic Centre during the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, in this Aug. 19, 2004 file photo.
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Both American 4x100-meter teams won gold medals Saturday night, finishing just ahead of the Jamaicans.
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Americans claim three medals, including the United States' first ever in the women's 10,000 meters, at the track and field world championships Saturday.
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The United States defeated Lithuania 104-96 here to win the Olympic men's basketball bronze medal game.
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Monday night, 20-year-old Jeremy Wariner and 21-year-old Otis Harris led an American contingent up the center of the track to claim gold and silver in the 400.