London Olympic Games
August 01, 2012 - August 12, 2012 @ Olympic Stadium in London, UK
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As has been widely reported, Cameron Levins has joined the...
So how was your Christmas? Mo Farah celebrated his by getting taken for a possible terrorist. The two-time gold medal winner for Great Britain at this past summer's...
NEW YORK -- Nobody plays the character of Usain Bolt quite like Usain Bolt. The grand (planned) gestures. The baritone. The playfulness that turns deadly serious for a...
Manteo Mitchell didn’t get to stand atop the podium at the Olympic Games. Mitchell’s Olympic appearance lasted roughly 45 seconds as he ran an unspectacular...
After the Jamaican 4×100 relay team, anchored by Usain Bolt, had lowered the world record to 36.84 seconds in the final event on the track at the London 2012...
Gowda becomes seventh Indian to qualify for final round of Olympic track and field event (via Gazette.net Gazette Maryland Community News)
Prince George’s track stars redirect their focus towards the 2016 Olympics (via Gazette.net Gazette Maryland Community News)
Thanks to Mo Fan, Will for his Submit-A-Mo. (via mofarahrunningawayfromthings.tumblr.com)
Cooper Head Cross Country Coach Eric Van Laningham has scored out the Olympic Track Men's Events in the standard team scoring formula in the chart below. The men of...
Graphic: a complete guide to the medal records of every country at every Olympic Games
Compare the medal performance of every country at every Olympic Games from...
This is Not a Zoo, U.S. Men's Marathon (via www.runblogrun.com)
LONDON—With the pressure of qualifying for the London Olympic Games off her shoulder, Tahesai Harrigan-Scott was thinking big for the marquee sporting spectacle.
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Princess Anne, Md. --The day has finally come for Lenora Guion-Firmin, when she will make her XXX Olympiad debut in London, England...
On the final day of competition Meb Keflezighi backed up his Athens 2004 silver medal in the marathon by placing 4th in an impressive showing! More coverage inside!...
Social Media Sphere Reacts to Manteo Mitchell's Heroic Performance at the Olympic Games.
Running the opening leg for Team USA in Thursday morning’s 4x400m relay semifinal, Manteo Mitchell (Cullowhee, N.C.) was a pivotal part in helping his team to the...
If the Algerian runner had stayed disqualified. If a fellow American hadn't surged past him near the finish line. If he had run .05 of a second faster. Matthew...
Frederick High grad reaches final round in his third appearance for India at the Summer Games (via Gazette.net Gazette Maryland Community News)
DeLoach wins bronze in long jump at 2012 Olympics - Colorado State University Official Athletic Site
Janay DeLoach fulfilled her lifelong dream of wanting to become an Olympic medalist by placing third, thus earning a bronze medal, in the long jump Wednesday. (via...
LONDON -- Middle-distance star Taoufik Makhloufi of Algeria was expelled from the Olympics for not providing a "bona-fide effort" in his preliminary heat of...
Andrew Valmon understands how to compartmentalize a schedule. Coaching six different Maryland athletic teams the past seven years has ensured as much. (via...
American sprinters at the London Games will have the option of wearing new uniforms from Nike that the sportswear company claims are the “swiftest track apparel to...
Compared with the athletes in the first modern Olympics, today’s gold medalists can run faster, swim stronger, and jump and throw farther. But how slow and weak...
LONDON – Monument resident Jenny Simpson has traveled to England with a lazer-like focus.... (via Colorado Springs Gazette, CO)
LONDON, Aug 4—J’Maal Alexander makes his Olympic Games debut today and becomes the territory’s 26th Olympian since 1984.
A ‘silent pistol’ is being used in the 2012 games that is connected to speakers behind each athlete competing in a heat ensuring all athletes hear the pistol...
Officials at this year's Olympics in London have been using these tiny RC model versions of the MINI Cooper to load up and transport javelins, shots, hammers, and...
U.S. Olympic gold medal gymnast Shawn Johnson poses with Ronald McDonald at the McDonald's flagship restaurant in Olympic Park. Johnson endorses both McDonald's...
LONDON, August 3—When she steps on the track on this evening to face the starters gun, sprinter Tahesia Harrigan-Scott will become just the fourth BVI Olympian to...
Ex-Raider, representing Antigua and Barbuda, runs Friday in women�s 400 (via Gazette.net Gazette Maryland Community News)
Asbel Kiprop, the defending champion and world leader, leads a daunting Kenyan trio who will arrive in London well-armed to take home the first Olympic 1500m medal sweep...
Full schedule of the TV schedule for the track events at the Olympic Games in London
In the sunshine of Birmingham, the world's second-fastest man was fairly exploding down the track. Shirt off, muscles pounding, Tyson Gay looked in the form to...
See how your personal best in the 100m, 10km, 100m freestyle swim and bicycle road race compares against the all-time greats - and whether your time would have ever...
Ttrack & field head coach Andrew Valmon will lead Team USA in London
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Edrick Floreal’s summer continues to get busier. Less than a week after being named the first new Kentucky track and field head coach in 28...
BIRMINGHAM, England -- The first two tears came in unison, not from the sides of Jeneba Tarmoh's brown eyes, but straight from the bottom. They rolled down her...
LONDON, JULY 25-BVI London 2012 Olympic Games sprinters Tahesai Harrigan-Scott and J'Maal Alexander, wrapped up their training camp in Aston on Tuesday and moved...
As the Olympic Flame finishes its trip around the globe, a school-record 19 Penn Staters are gearing up to represent their school and countries at the 2012 Olympic Games...
LONDON, JULY 19—The BVI Olympic Games Delegation got two days of international recognition and advertisement, ahead of next week’s opening ceremonies for the...
Sebastian Coe, the London 2012 chairman, made an unscheduled appearance in the Olympice Village here this afternoon for the first of what will be 204 Welcoming...
Michael Johnson sure is chatty this year. First it was commentary on how slave descendants have a genetic edge on the track. Now the 400-meter world-record holder and...
Matt Centrowitz Sr. does not recall ever sitting down with his son Matthew to regale him with tales of being an Olympian, or to explain the thrill and responsibility of...
Today's blog post comes from Lopez Lomong, who will be running with Team USA in the London 2012 Olympics. Lopez was born in South Sudan, and kidnapped by a rebel...
In the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, LaShawn Merritt earned gold medals in the 400m and 400m relay. In the winter of 2009, he failed three drug tests. This summer...
LENORA GUION-FIRMIN MEMBER OF 2012 FRENCH OLYMPIC RELAY TEAM
Guion-Firmin Earned a Silver Medal in the European Championship to Earn a Place on the Team
Gowda holds Indian national record in discus throw with 66.28-meter performance in April (via )
It all caught up with University of Maryland swimmers and divers, men's cross country runners, women's water polo players and other athletes young enough to have...
Dendy eyes leap across the pond
Middletown grad to vie for spot in Olympics
Middle distance runner Robby Andrews is competing in New York, with an eye toward the U.S. trials and a spot in London for this summer’s Olympics. (via )
She’s already won 3 Olympic medals, but Allyson Felix is chasing that elusive individual Olympic gold. (via )
Usain Bolt ended his six-month relationship with a Slovakian fashion designer in order to focus on the upcoming Summer Olympics. News reports suggest Bolt's breakup...
Unless Usain Bolt eschews the athletes village in favour of the delights of Brockley, south east London, he won’t face the same commute as I did on race day. (via...
Ohio State senior hurdler Christina Manning, with the fastest 100-meter American time this year, has a college season to finish before setting her sights on London. (via...
Although the U.S. is expected to lose the medal count at the London Olympics, there's still one event Americans are expected to dominate: the decathlon. (via )
Scary. It can describe the future of a world-class athlete after a diagnosis that could've ended her track days. Instead, Sanya Richards-Ross pushed p... (via )
View the 15 Faces to Watch at the 2012 London Olympic Games photo gallery on Yahoo! Sports. Find more news related pictures in our photo galleries. (via Yahoo! Sports)
Running Man: Usain Bolt readies for London 2012 Olympics
100 days from now, the Olympic flame will be lit in London. Arguably no spotlight is greater than the...
In a race such as the 1,500 meters, knowing when to run in front or hang back can be the difference between triumph and disappointment. (via Washington Post)
Coverage of the 2012 Olympics in London by NBCOlympics.com includes exclusive video, results, schedules, athletes, news, photos, & TV Listings. (via...
He is the fastest man on two legs, the greatest sprinter of all time – and Usain Bolt can also claim another superlative. He alone has caused the other top...
Usain Bolt reckons London's thriving Jamaican community could help propel him to another monumental Olympic performance as the sprinter seeks to repeat his triple...
'Carmelita Jeter takes five strides in the time it takes to say (via The Washington Post)
Mind over matter? Or nature over nurture? What is it that separates Olympic legends like Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps from the millions...