Phelps coach takes Olympic consulting post
Bob Bowman, the coach who guided Michael Phelps through an Olympic career that yielded 18 swimming gold medals, has taken a job as an Olympics consultant.
Bob Bowman, the coach who guided Michael Phelps through an Olympic career that yielded 18 swimming gold medals, has taken a job as an Olympics consultant.
FOLLOWING the successful staging of the London 2012 Olympics, another sporting spectacle, the Paralympic Games, takes center stage Wednesday with 20 sports on tap in the British capital.
Chris Paul, the NBA All-Star point guard who helped the United States win basketball gold at the London Olympics, had successful surgery on his injured right thumb Tuesday, the Los Angeles Clippers said.
Thousands of fans have screamed, cheered and snapped photos as Japan’s Olympic medalists paraded through downtown Tokyo.
After the Philippines failed to win a single medal in the just concluded 2012 Olympics in London, Senator Francis Pangilinan on Tuesday called for a review of the rules of the Philippine Sports Commission and the Philippine Olympic Committee.
The melting pot of a city that dazzled for a fortnight finally bid farewell to its third Olympics on Sunday night with a star-studded celebration of pop music and its energetic culture.
Basking in post-Olympic glory, Britain succumbed to reality Monday with commuters venturing back to work and Heathrow Airport experiencing one of its busiest days ever.
Emerging sports superpower China may not have won the medal race against the United States, but it certainly topped the gold race elsewhere in the 30th Olympic Games in London.
Benjamin Silva-Netto was nostalgic as he watched the Olympic marathon bring down the curtains of the athletics program of the London Olympic Games on Sunday.
“I’m talking ’bout my generation,” sang The Who, capping a raucous, rock ‘n’ roll Olympic closing ceremony
Britain basked Sunday in the feelgood factor of its most successful ever Olympics performance in a Games that it organized to widespread acclaim, but the time to capitalize on it could be short.
British rock stars are seizing the stage to close the Olympics with an extravaganza that promises to keep a worldwide audience entertained well into the night — and dancing all the way to Rio.
The United States Dream Team of NBA stars captured their second Olympic men’s basketball gold medal in a row and the 14th overall for America by beating Spain 107-100 in Sunday’s championship game.
