Kastor captures Marathon bronze
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Andrew Kastor was offering his wife a last word in Marathon at about 1 pm Sunday afternoon when Deena Kastor flashed him a smile that left him feeling as he never has before.
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ATHENS - Host nation Greece, already embarrassed by two sprinters who dropped out of the Games after missing a drug test, received another black eye when bronze-winning weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis tested positive for excessive ...
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Ilias Iliadis captured Greece&#39;s second gold medal of the 2004 Olympics with a thrilling victory over Roman Gontyuk of the Ukraine in the men&#39;s under 81kg category in judo on Tuesday.
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Stafano Baldini of Italy took the lead two miles from the finish to win the gold medal and American Meb Keflezighi took a stunning silver Sunday in an Olympic marathon disrupted by a costumed intruder who grabbed the race leader with about three miles to
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Tamas Kasas was born the same month Hungary won its sixth Olympic water polo gold medal. For two decades, Hungarians waited for somebody like him to revive its dominance in a sport
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South African Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee who runs with carbon fiber blades attached to his legs, may have to wait until Saturday before he learns if he can compete against able-bodied runners at the Beijing Olympics.
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Eirik Veraas Larsen of Norway, 27, added a bronze in men&#39;s K2 1,000m to his gold in K1 1,000m won earlier in Athens Olympic regatta here on Friday.
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Deena Kastor's bronze medal in the women's Olympic marathon Sunday in Athens struck a chord with former Olympian Lynn Jennings, who won the bronze medal at 10,000 meters in the 1992 Games.
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American rider Chris Kappler won a bronze medal in show jumping yesterday in Athens, and was even happier when he learned his horse wasn&#39;t seriously hurt following a breakdown during a timed jumpoff.
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American rider Chris Kappler won a bronze medal in show jumping yesterday in Athens, and was even happier when he learned his horse wasn't seriously hurt following a breakdown during a timed jumpoff.
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Former European champion Stefano Baldini of Italy overtook Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima 1.2 miles from the finish to win the Olympic men&#39;s marathon on Sunday.
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This was all about Athens, about redemption for one and validation for the other. Britain&#39;s Paula Radcliffe, the fastest female marathoner in history
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A few things have changed in Deena Kastor&#39;s life since late August when the 31-year-old Californian battled the oppressive Athens heat to capture the Olympic bronze medal in the women&#39;s marathon.
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ATHENS, Greece - Stefano Baldini of Italy took the lead two miles from the finish to win the gold medal and American Meb Keflezighi took a stunning silver Sunday in an Olympic marathon disrupted by a costumed intruder who grabbed race leader Vanderlei Lima of Brazil with about three miles to go.    Lima, whose lead had been slowly shrinking, was pushed to the curb by a man dressed in green beret, red kilt and knee-high green socks...
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ATHENS : Kosuke Kitajima completed a sweep of Olympic breaststroke gold on Wednesday, capturing the 200m title in a Games record ahead of Hungarian teenager Daniel Gyurta.
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Dawid Krupa was not going to win the men&#39;s Olympic road race. The Polish cyclist was just trying to finish the 139.4-mile marathon, something scores of other riders failed to do last
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Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee sprinter, finished second before a cheering crowd in Olympic Stadium, trailing only Stefano Braciola, who won in 46.72 seconds.