Olympic athletes and spectators are set for the biggest day of action yet at the London 2012 Games, with 25 gold medals up for grabs in 11 different sports on what has been dubbed "Super Saturday."
Katherine Grainger ended her 12-year wait for Olympic glory after winning gold in the women's double sculls.
Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins doubled Britain's gold medal tally, just hours after the host nation won its first event at the London Olympics on Wednesday.
The U.S. Coast Guard, champion of boating safety everywhere, is to blame for a tragic 2009 accident that killed an 8-year-old boy during a holiday boat parade in San Diego Bay, a federal safety board said Tuesday.
An Irish man known as "The Naked Adventurer" was rescued off the coast of Western Australia during a failed attempt to row across the Indian Ocean.
The Iraqi Olympic Rowing Team meets American veterans on new turf - the historic Charles River. Richard Roth reports.
Boston, the city that gave rise to the American Revolution, is now playing host to the Iraqi National Rowing Team.
In addition to the expected cluster of cast members, random celebrities (Kevin Spacey, Adrien Brody, Gina Gershon), and assorted hangers-on, a pair of Olympic athletes were present for last week's New York premiere of The Social Network. Of course, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss had a particularly compelling reason to attend the festivities: The 29-year-old twins, who finished sixth in the coxless pair crew event at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games, were Harvard undergrads when they created the social networking site ConnectU.
The first thing the visitors noticed was the calm. Along the sides of Lake Carnegie, the man-made facility constructed for rowing in Princeton, N.J., a century ago, sat picturesque grass embankments and a spanking clean boathouse. On Tuesday, the members of the Iraqi rowing team affirmed their approval. "It's very clean, very peaceful, very, I would say, almost perfect," said Ahmed Abdul Salam. The scene was different several years ago when Salam and his partner went out for a row on the Tigris River, a venue encircled by a battered Baghdad landscape, security checkpoints and, oh yes, the soldiers who began shooting at them. "We heard the pops in the water," he recalls. "They told us to stop. We were a threat. We were being arrested."
Don't count Apolo Ohno out of the 2014 Olympics just yet. The man with eight Olympics medals, the most of any U.S. Winter Olympian in history, hasn't ruled out a return to the ranks of competitive short track speedskating. "I've been so busy since Vancouver and I haven't been on the ice since," Ohno said Monday in New York. "Tuesday was my first day on the ice. I'm taking a long break from the sport. I'm looking forward to seeing the London Games, the Sochi Games in some capacity, but I haven't made a decision about that yet ... I think it would take me a minimum of two years to be ready for another Olympics. This is a true break I've never had before. I've had urges. I wanted to go to Utah and just show up for training."
The U.S. women's soccer team advances to the finals. Larry Smith wraps up Monday's Olympic competition.
Thanks to a policy of equal treatment, the host nation's female athletes have comfortably contributed more than half of the country's gold medals
Among water people, there are planers and there are displacers.
When the world's top athletes take on their rivals at the summer Olympics this month, they'll also be taking on the intense heat of the Athens climate -- and the British rowing team might just beat the latter, thanks to a high-tech silver uniform.
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