“There was a lot of openness I didn’t expect,” he says. Loveland had arrived in Beijing a year before the Summer Olympics, with the city abuzz with preparations. A decade had passed since ...

Kirsty Coventry elected as the 10th – and first female – president of the International Olympic Committee in its 131-year ...

She took home a gold medal and three silver medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She also competed in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics before retiring. She was inducted into the International ...

Cricket Australia chairman Mike Baird and AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon were both in attendance at Howard Smith Wharves on Tuesday as the Queensland Premier outlined the new sporting vision for a ...

Jakob holds four middle-distance world records and has two Olympic titles: 1500m from the delayed Tokyo Games in 2021, and 5,000m in Paris last summer. Jakob is one of only four men to win and ...

the country has competed in 17 Summer Olympics, securing five medals, one gold, three silver, and one bronze. The breakthrough moment came in Sydney 2000, and since Beijing 2008, Vietnam has ...

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was revenge time for the normally dominant United States basketball team. This time the team was assembled with a plethora of stars with no compromises as the ...

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she won three Olympic medals: a gold, a silver, and a bronze. In the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she won four medals: a gold and three silvers.

The accolades continue for Summer McIntosh ... who coached American Michael Phelps to a record 23 Olympic gold medals, including eight at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, to help her.

Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles ... Women's Floor Exercise Final on day ten of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, Aug. 5, 2024, in Paris. Xavier Laine/Getty Images "I'm doing way better than I was ...

Four years later, in 2008 in Beijing ... Kirsty Coventry won her first Olympic gold medal in AthensImage: Tim Clary/AFP/Getty Images By the time Coventry finished her career, she had been at ...