In 1972, Mark Spitz, at 22 took center stage in the Olympics. There are few sports that allow an athlete the possibility of turning multiple gold medals; swimming is the only event that would allow anyone to set the record Mark did. He won an astonishing 7 Gold Medals. Three of his medals [...]

Stephanie Brown-Trafton won the first Olympic Gold in women’s discus since 1932.  That’s right, it has been 76 years.  Many lives have come and gone in the time the US waited for this event.
Stephanie said, “I came to the Bird’s Nest to lay a golden egg, and that’s what I did.  It’s an awesome feeling. [...]

Two teams in the 4×100 Meter did the unacceptable, the unthinkable, the unimaginable. They dropped the baton. If you are slow to take the baton, you may lose a step. But if you drop it, you are disqualified, and someone should have explained this to the team before they stepped on the [...]

Who’d uh thunk it?  Coach Hugh McCutcheon said, “There was no one in the world banking on this team winning the Olympic Gold Medal”.
He was, of course, speaking of the US Volleyball team that had beaten Brazil three sets to one.  Brazil was top ranked and favored heavily to win, but someone forgot to tell [...]

The Spanish outplayed the US for the first quarter, and with an array of players that are all paid millions, the US was trailing by 5 early, their biggest deficit of the Olympics. This was an injured Spanish team, and they were still beating the so-called Redeem Team.
Chris Paul, for the US, fortunately was [...]

UPDATED: 21 August 2008
The US has not lost a match, or a set, in 107 straight matches.  No one can even fathom that number.  It is like trying to understand the Universe.  Billions of Stars, Hundreds of Billions of planets in our own Galaxy, hundreds of millions of life years away.  And we drive 70 [...]

In our poll, we have asked our readers if they feel that China’s Women’s Gymnastics squad should be stripped of their Gold medals. In similar polls, we have asked if they feel Gold medals and various judging calls clearly favored the Chinese in what appeared to be cheats or set-ups. Finally, we have [...]

The US Team had three racers in the Men’s 400 Meter Hurdles finals for the medals.  All three rose to the occasion.  It was US 1-2-3, and there would be no judges to spoil this event.
Angelo Taylor put the field away for Gold.  Angelo won the gold in Sydney eight yeras ago and again now [...]

There was little doubt as the swimmers entered the pool area that this race was to be US all the way. This relay team was just too strong to miss Gold, but Australia and Japan may have a bit to say about that. Aaron Peirsol was to start, and the weak link was Brendan [...]

P helps was about to go to seven straight Golds in these Olympics.  He was trying to shake off the nerves.  He was about to swim for Mark Spitz’s record, but Spitz did not have to face Milorad Cavic of Serbia.  In the preliminaries, he passed Michael for the second fastest time in history. Michael [...]