German Olympic champion equestrian rider Ingrid Klimke talks to CNN about her Beijing gold and London 2012.
Authorities will have to await a necropsy to find out killed one of the equine world's top athletes, a stallion named Hickstead.
With Olympic berths available in some sports and athlete fields ranging from secondary to top shelf, the Pan Am Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, wrapped up last weekend, featuring athletes from the Americas competing in Olympic sports less than a year out from the London Games. Here are some of the highlights:
The elite equestrian suffered a concussion and fractured spine
The powerful Brazilian men's volleyball team confirmed its supremacy by winning the world championship in Rome on Sunday. Brazil downed the young, eighth-seeded Cubans in the finals 25-22, 25-14, 25-22 to avenge a loss to Cuba in the preliminary round of play. Serbia defeated host Italy to win bronze, three games to one.
Just three weeks after the U.S. men's basketball team defeated host nation Turkey in the finals of their world championship, the U.S. women's team knocked off the hosts from the Czech Republic, 89-69, to capture the women's title in Karlovy Vary on Sunday. Angel McCoughtry led the U.S. with 18 points and Diana Taurasi added 16. The victory also gave the U.S. squad an automatic berth in the tournament at the London Olympics.
Apple Martin and Lola Consuelos saddle up in the Hampton Classic Horse Show
British model and television personality Katie Price, also known as Jordan, and her singer husband, Peter Andre, are to separate, according to a statement released Monday.
Tests for doping will be front and center at the Olympic equestrian events in Hong Kong. CNN's Andrew Stevens reports.
How a Hong Kong philosophy student became the city's anti-Olympic poster child
Officers in Hong Kong removed a student who tried to display a Tibetan flag during an Olympic event Saturday.
A champion rider and her pony would have won hearts at the Olympics. But now Karen O'Connor is on the sidelines
Great Britain's Olympic athletes are choosing a gambling mecca in southern China over Beijing as a place to train and rest until just prior to their events during the 2008 Summer Games, a British team official says.
As Heidi Lemack-Beck rides her horse Jazzmine around the arena at Rhythm & Blues Stables in Allentown, N.J., six pairs of electronic eyes watch every move of these skilled competitors. Heidi quickens the pace of the 16-year-old mare from a trot to a canter, and the cameras swivel to track them - or rather to track the cracker-sized RFID tag stuck to the top of Heidi's helmet.
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