CNN's global network of affiliates will be providing dispatches from their countries on the Olympics. The aim is to give viewers around the world what the Olympic pulse is in various nations.
Following Monday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake, Beijing's Olympics organizers will scale down Wednesday's torch relay in the southeastern city of Ruijin and open with a minute of silence in a symbolic gesture to the thousands who died.
Chinese President Hu Jintao demanded Wednesday that the Dalai Lama not try to divide China, incite violence or harm the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing. But he said fledgling talks with representatives of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader would continue.
There is something wonderfully ironic about the Olympic torch, which is making its journey around the world with what appears to be, a big "KICK ME" sign on it for China.
About this time every year, a few months before the Summer Olympics begin, there is often a certain amount of anxiety. Usually, it relates to whether all the facilities will be constructed in time for the sappy opening ceremonies. And usually, everything comes together, and fellowship and brotherhood once again reign on earth.
I wish I had taken notes, but I was too busy eating a club sandwich. What I do remember of my early 1990s lunch with the Dalai Lama -- a session with about a dozen other magazine editors at a dining room in the Time & Life Building in Manhattan -- was that, beneath his ancient red monk's robe, His Holiness was wearing hiking shoes. Birkenstocks, perhaps. Maybe Timberlands.
Viewpoint: Few of them have taken a stand on China's human rights abuses. But athletics and politics should not remain separate
The threat of violence at this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing is greater than first thought and could include anything from violent assaults to large attack plots, the head of Interpol warned Friday.
How many times have we seen it; an athlete offering a rueful shake of the head and shrug of the shoulders, and the only explanation for not winning: "It just wasn't my day." But would knowing if it was their day help?
Here was a novel idea. In the summer of 1999 U.S. shot-putter John Godina, who had already won two world titles and an Olympic silver medal, interrupted an interview with a business proposition: "How about if SPORTS ILLUSTRATED pays to drug-test me every day between now and the [Sydney] Olympics?" said Godina. "Blood, urine, the works. Then when I win the gold medal, you've got a big story: a guaranteed clean athlete."
CNN's global network of affiliates will be providing dispatches from their countries on the Olympics. The aim is to give viewers around the world what the Olympic pulse is in various nations.
Following Monday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake, Beijing's Olympics organizers will scale down Wednesday's torch relay in the southeastern city of Ruijin and open with a minute of silence in a symbolic gesture to the thousands who died.
Chinese President Hu Jintao demanded Wednesday that the Dalai Lama not try to divide China, incite violence or harm the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing. But he said fledgling talks with representatives of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader would continue.
There is something wonderfully ironic about the Olympic torch, which is making its journey around the world with what appears to be, a big "KICK ME" sign on it for China.
About this time every year, a few months before the Summer Olympics begin, there is often a certain amount of anxiety. Usually, it relates to whether all the facilities will be constructed in time for the sappy opening ceremonies. And usually, everything comes together, and fellowship and brotherhood once again reign on earth.
I wish I had taken notes, but I was too busy eating a club sandwich. What I do remember of my early 1990s lunch with the Dalai Lama -- a session with about a dozen other magazine editors at a dining room in the Time & Life Building in Manhattan -- was that, beneath his ancient red monk's robe, His Holiness was wearing hiking shoes. Birkenstocks, perhaps. Maybe Timberlands.
Viewpoint: Few of them have taken a stand on China's human rights abuses. But athletics and politics should not remain separate
The threat of violence at this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing is greater than first thought and could include anything from violent assaults to large attack plots, the head of Interpol warned Friday.
How many times have we seen it; an athlete offering a rueful shake of the head and shrug of the shoulders, and the only explanation for not winning: "It just wasn't my day." But would knowing if it was their day help?
Here was a novel idea. In the summer of 1999 U.S. shot-putter John Godina, who had already won two world titles and an Olympic silver medal, interrupted an interview with a business proposition: "How about if SPORTS ILLUSTRATED pays to drug-test me every day between now and the [Sydney] Olympics?" said Godina. "Blood, urine, the works. Then when I win the gold medal, you've got a big story: a guaranteed clean athlete."
The United States men's basketball team will face host China in its first game at the Beijing Olympics.
The biggest showcase in the build-up for the Olympics begins on Monday, March 24, with the lighting of the Olympic torch in ancient Olympia, Greece.
Malaysian police said Monday they detained a Japanese family of three that unfurled a pro-Tibet banner as the Olympic torch relay began in the Southeast Asian nation's capital.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -- After a poor 2007 season, "Batman" is back.
It IS the offseason, after all, so I hope you'll allow me to step out of the football uniform for one brief moment and give voice to something that bothers me greatly. China. The Olympics, or more pointedly, Olympic blindness that sees the Games as an excuse for any number of excesses.
As government billboards called on residents in Buenos Aires to enjoy Friday's planned leg of the Olympic torch run, officials in the Argentine capital were planning for possible disruptions such those that have occurred in other relay cities.
The United Nations secretary general has joined a growing list of high-profile leaders who have indicated they will not attend the Olympic Games' opening ceremony in Beijing, as the troubled torch relay moved to Argentina on Friday.
Beijing announces it has cracked down on two terror groups planning mayhem for the Olympics. But some are skeptical
The Olympic torch relay in San Francisco went well compared to the chaotic scenes in London and Paris earlier this week, the head of the International Olympic Committee said Thursday.
The Olympics are an appropriate forum for political gestures; I would argue, in fact, that the Olympics are a necessary forum for political speech.
The presidential candidates are calling on China to improve its human rights record as protests over the crackdown in Tibet follow the Olympic flame on its international journey.
Thousands of protesters demonstrated against China's human rights record and its crackdown in Tibet after the Olympic flame arrived in San Francisco Tuesday.
The White House left the door open Tuesday to President Bush skipping the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics to protest China's human rights record and its crackdown in Tibet.
Beijing insisted Tuesday that the international Olympic torch relay would go on, despite calls to cut it short amid chaotic anti-China protests.
The last part of the Olympic torch relay in Paris was canceled Monday after a day of chaos in which anti-China protesters forced authorities to extinguish the flame at least five times, take to a bus and skip some scheduled stops, including city hall.
Sen. Hillary Clinton called on President Bush Monday to boycott the opening of this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
A perfect storm is gathering for Beijing's inflexible rulers and it is inextricably linked to the Olympic Games
Fifteen U.S. House members asked President Bush Tuesday not to attend the Olympic Games in Beijing to protest China's human rights records.
The best player CONCACAF has ever produced turned out to be one of the worst managers the region has seen in recent memory.
Activists protesting China's crackdown in Tibet briefly disrupted the Olympic flame-lighting ceremony in Greece on Monday, calling for a boycott of the Summer Games in Beijing later this year.
Angry Tibetans railing against "cultural genocide." Menacing Chinese security forces taking up positions in Tibet's chaotic streets.
The Olympic torch begins a 130-day, 85,000-mile journey Monday that will take it from the site of ancient Olympia in Greece to Beijing, China, where the 2008 summer games will begin in August.
Tibet's spiritual leader Thursday said he was powerless to stop anti-Chinese violence as authorities in Beijing acknowledged for the first time that unrest had spread into neighboring Chinese provinces.
New video from China suggests that security forces have yet to gain complete control of Tibet and neighboring provinces which have suffered eruptions of anti-Chinese violence since last week.
That sound you hear is China crackin' heads and takin' names in Tibet as it tidies up and puts on its best face before the guests arrive in August. But not everyone is willing to ignore the sound of servants being beaten in the back room while cocktails and horse doovers are served, so calls for a boycott have arisen from folks who are more than passively concerned about human rights.
The pitch for softball's Olympic reinstatement goes something like this: at a time when the IOC is trying to promote women's sports, here is a team event that was voted off the Olympic program three years ago under dubious circumstances, is growing in popularity around the world, would make for good programming on NBC and could share a venue with other sports in order to save money.
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg's decision to quit the Beijing Olympics over the Darfur crisis is drawing condemnation by China's state-controlled media
Ted Owen, CEO of Santa Monica-based GGL Global Gaming (GGL), has told Fortune he has signed a deal to make video gaming an official welcome event of this summer's Beijing Olympics. A Chinese official confirms it.
On Feb. 5 a court in Hangzhou sentenced dissident journalist Lu Gengsong to four years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power" with his critical essays about the ruling Communist Party. Lu responded by yelling, "Long live democracy!" Then he was taken away.
With a year to go before the 2008 Olympics get under way, questions linger over China's efforts to improve its human rights record.
The search is back on for words to the Spanish national anthem.
The IOC formally stripped Marion Jones of her five Olympic medals Wednesday, wiping her name from the record books following her admission that she was a drug cheat
Hi I'm Anjali Rao, coming to you from the set of a top-rated TV show in Beijing. My guest today is Olympic ambassador and prime-time presenter Yang Lan. This is Talk Asia.
AR: Yaping, good to have you on Talk Asia this week. Now you're an Olympics legend here in China. You've got four gold medals and also 14 other world championship titles. How does it feel to be hosting the Olympics in your home country?
The IOC (International Olympic Committee) should consider a country's record in human and animal rights, as well as its respect for the environment, before granting the said country the honor of hosting the Olympics. The 2008 Beijing Olympics is a result of polical concession and lobbying by prominent businesses. Oscar Lei, Toronto, Canada
To understand Mitt Romney's rise to become a successful CEO and governor, one must look at his early experiences in the Mormon church, including his 2½ years as a missionary.
I just finished another viewing of Marion Jones's post-guilty plea, courthouse steps press conference last Friday in suburban New York. I have to say, it took me back.
Last month, the U.S. men's basketball team qualified for next summer's Olympics by whipping a bunch of countries from the Americas, all by boxcar numbers. It would appear that we have finally figured out how to put a team and purpose together to regain the hegemony that we exhibited with the Dream Teams of the 1990s.
They are collateral damage, innocent (at least as far as we know) bystanders hit by the fallout from Marion Jones's bombshell. Their names are Jearl Miles-Clark, Monique Hennagan, La Tasha Colander-Richardson, Andrea Anderson, Nanceen Perry and Passion Richardson. They are the track stars who had the misfortune of being Jones's relay teammates during the 2000 Olympics, the Olympics in which Jones now admits that she competed with the help of performance-enhancing drugs. Did your mother ever warn you not to fall in with the wrong crowd? Marion Jones was the wrong crowd.
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Track star Marion Jones pleaded guilty Friday to lying to a federal investigator about taking banned substances.
Twenty years ago, I got to witness Al Oerter's competitive fire in the least likely of places: a Mexican restaurant. While on assignment for another publication, I spent the day with Oerter while reporting a story about great Olympic champions (and there are none greater than Oerter, a four-time gold medalist in the discus throw between 1956 and 1968).
Here are the key takeaways from this week's World Gymnastics championships in Stuttgart:
Here was movement sweeter than beautiful music or fine wine, a combination of speed and style that ever so briefly transcends sport. We see it rarely in person and squeeze our eyes shut to remember it in ways that YouTube cannot convey.
One of the best times to visit China's capital, some tourist guidebooks say, is in August, despite temperatures that can soar as high as 40 degrees Centigrade -- and despite the rain.
Despite a persistent gray haze, officials said Tuesday an exercise that removed more than 1 million private vehicles a day from Beijing's gridlocked streets was a success that could mean a clearer sky during next summer's Olympics.
On a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 2001, Alan Webb ran a mile faster than any other U.S. high school runner in history. More than 11,000 spectators rose in a frenzy to cheer the epic performance at Oregon's Hayward Field, and many more embraced it from afar. Webb clocked 3:53.43 that day, nearly two seconds faster than Jim Ryun had run 36 years earlier. World-record holder and race winner Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco invited Webb to share his victory lap. David Letterman invited him to share his stage.
City officials yanked hundreds of thousands of cars off Beijing's streets Friday to test whether a partial car ban could clear threatening smog during the 2008 Olympics
China is spending billions on high-tech systems to protect athletes, and it's raising concerns among political activists
Construction is on track for the 2008 Games, but is Beijing ready for the environmental and political challenges?
China will open its borders to a host of international visitors next year for the Olympic Games, but it may be strife within the country that causes the greatest security worries, human rights groups say.
Xe Jing is feeling nervous. "The Olympics is approaching, everyone is getting more nervous," says the 30-something Beijing cab driver. Xe has been driving around the city's streets for years. But lately, cab drivers such as Xe have been picking up some unwelcome passengers -- work colleagues sent to check on them.
Name: Suzanne Grassel School: Syracuse Age: 21 Major: Magazine journalism and sport management Job: Media Intern, USA Boxing, USOC Paid/unpaid: Paid School Credit: Yes Hours: 8-5, Monday-Friday Duration: May 30-Aug. 27 (with a week off in the middle)
At a stall in a crowded street market in Mong Kok, one of Hong Kong's many busy shopping districts, a vendor with a quick whip of his hands produces from behind a plywood wall a set of Beijing Olympics key rings. They are perfect rubber replicas of the five Olympics mascots: the Fuwas.
The Black Sea resort town will host the 2014 Winter Olympics, thanks partly to the Russian president's personal campaign
Kathleen Hersey was on the blocks for her first race of the 2007 Class A-AAAA state meet last February, and Marist (Atlanta) coach Terry Blish was nervous.
Willard Mitt Romney looks great in a suit. Which is good for him, because all day "Matinee Mitt" has been wearing a crisp, gray number. Speeches, grip-and-grin events, a veterans hall - no venue-appropriate costume changes, just pure Brooks Brothers. Even now, when it's 85 degrees and he's surrounded by people in shorts, the man won't so much as loosen his tie.
In recognition of Mother's Day, here's a look at the impact of the Top 10 mothers in sports.
A mouse, keyboard and/or Xbox controller don't seem like the standard gear of an Olympic athlete, but Ted Owen wants to change that.
The Olympics experience for NBC certainly wasn't as bad as it was for say, Bode Miller.
It may have the strongest female audience for any sporting event, but it's not just women who will be watching women's figure skating at the Olympics this week.
Top Ghanaian skier Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong has just bumped into a couple of gates as he tears downhill over a tricky steep slope that makes up the grand slalom course at this resort in the Italian Dolomites.
NBC is hoping for some gold-medal worthy ratings this month.
For many, the suspense leading up to Super Bowl XL in Detroit on Feb. 5 has nothing to do with which teams will make it to the big game but which big corporations will be advertising during it.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Pigskin fans rejoice! The National Football League playoffs begin this weekend and Super Bowl XL is only a little more than a month away.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - NBC will probably win the ratings equivalent of a gold medal in February when it airs the Winter Olympics from Turin, Italy. Who doesn't love to watch lugeing?
In 1998, Mary Bono was thrust into the political spotlight after she filled the congressional seat of her husband, Sonny Bono, the singer and television entertainer turned Republican congressman who died in a skiing accident. Now, Mary Bono is serving her fourth consecutive term in Congress, with her own agenda and victories.
There were cheers in London's Trafalgar Square when the city was named the site for the 2012 Summer Olympics Wednesday.
Chinese officials planning the 2008 summer Olympic Games in Beijing could be forgiven for feeling a little weighed down by the burden of extraordinary expectation -- both on the home front and from abroad.
A day before a congressional hearing on steroid use in baseball, the two top members of the investigating committee said baseball's new policy appears to be more smoke and mirrors than a legitimate attempt to crack down on steroid use.
New York City's efforts to land the 2012 Olympics have produced one of those only-in-New-York spectacles for the city's residents.
London Mayor Ken Livingstone is expected to express regret this week for comparing a Jewish newspaper reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard, his deputy said Sunday.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called on London Mayor Ken Livingstone to apologize for a tirade in which he accused a Jewish reporter of behaving like a Nazi concentration camp guard.
Defiant London Mayor Ken Livingstone has again refused to apologize for a tirade in which he accused a Jewish reporter of behaving like a Nazi concentration camp guard.
One billion people, one silver medal at the 2004 Olympics.
In hindsight, NBC Universal's big bet on the Athens Olympics isn't looking so risky after all.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has pulled out of a visit to Athens to attend Sunday's closing ceremonies for the Olympic Games, U.S. officials said.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If an athlete's true test is improving each time on the field, television network NBC is due for laurels when the Athens Olympics end Sunday, but its greater challenge will be launching new shows like "Joey" in coming weeks.
Gymnast Paul Hamm became the first-ever American to win the men's all-around title in one of the closest-ever Olympic competitions. South Korea protested saying a scoring error cost them the gold medal.
Jimmy Pedro won a bronze medal in judo at the Olympics earlier this week, along with a $10,000 prize from the U.S. Olympic Committee.
American swimmer Michael Phelps and NBC have something in common: With expectations high, both got off to a shaky start at the Olympics, but both are now showing signs that things have turned around.
NBC Universal, the New York-based General Electric unit that owns Olympics broadcast rights, will flood viewers with live sports and tales of against-the-odds quests for gold medal over the next 19 days.
Is it me, or are the Olympics not so special anymore?
While ad sales for the upcoming Olympics broadcasts have been brisk, advertisers are putting new clauses in their contracts to protect them in case the games are either halted or upstaged by a terrorist attack, according to a published report Wednesday.
On the eve of the Athens Olympics, the most pressing issue has nothing to do with security, last-minute ticket sales, or whether the concrete will dry on all those down-to-the-wire construction projects.
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Olympic runner Ryan Tolbert-Jackson is familiar with the effects of smog. She has asthma, which was triggered after she competed at the 1997 World Championships in Athens.
The Olympic torch arrived in Los Angeles on Wednesday on its journey to Athens. Back in the Greek capital, nearly every hotel has hiked its room rates for the Games, some to breathtaking heights.
Three bomb blasts outside an Athens police station have raised new security concerns about the city's hosting of the Olympic Games.
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