Gay, Hoff win top US honours

Track and field world champion Tyson Gay and swimmer Katie Hoff have been named the US Olympic Committee (USOC) sportsman and sportswoman of 2007, the organisation announced on Thursday. The USOC......

Hamm will keep Olympic gold

American gymnast Paul Hamm will keep his Olympic all-round gold medal after the Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected an appeal from South Korea's Yang Tae-young."This is......

U.S. satisfied with security plan for Olympics

U.S. Olympic officials underlined their confidence in security plans for the Athens Olympics on Friday, downplaying recent lapses and growing anti-American sentiment.With the opening of the Summer......

Wrestling faces tough fight to pin down Olympic spot

As a former chief executive of the United States Olympic Committee, Jim Scherr knows better than most the daunting challenge facing wrestling as the sport tries to avoid being tossed from the......

Marion Jones returns medals and accepts ban

Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones has relinquished the five Olympic medals she won at the 2000 Sydney Games and accepted a two-year ban after admitting she used performance-enhancing drugs, the US......