I’ve had it up to here with Oscar Pistorius. I’ve had it up to here with his whining, his moaning, his self pity. And his inability to decide whether he’s abled or disabled.
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A negative attitude towards sports and physical activity in general, especially where women are concerned, keeps a population of 350 million from excelling
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Guor Marial is a refugee from what is now the world's newest country, South Sudan, having fled a civil war that left many of his family members dead when he was a teenager.
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Country is at a pivotal moment in its history and NRIs in the UAE are very much a part of it
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The London Games have gone down in history as the most politically correct Olympics ever. Moreover, it was political correctness in its worst form — on the verge of fascism.
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Match-fixing and gambling the new threat in IOC's battle against corruption.
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Thousands of Olympic athletes and spectators are heading home after the London 2012 Games ended with a triumphant bang.
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A year after riots engulfed London and spread to other English cities, the buzz around the Olympics is sweeping the capital, but with recession hammering the poorest Londoners the threat of unrest lingers.
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The prestigious scientific journal, Nature, has apologized to Ye Shiwen, the Chinese Olympic double gold medalist in swimming, following an "outraged response" by readers over a controversial article implying Ye's doping.
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Victor Conte says it is easy for cheats to prosper at London 2012 and claims six out of ten athletes are using drugs.
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Olympic champions Greg Rutherford and Tirunesh Dibaba are spearheading athletes' calls for Britain to use the success of the London Games to push forward action to tackle child malnutrition in poor countries.
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Mexico stunned Brazil to win their first gold in the Olympic men's football tournament as Oribe Peralta's double clinched a shock 2-1 victory over the five-time world champions here yesterday.
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Saudi Arabia's Olympic Paradox: Insulting Women, Islam and "Prostitutes"
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Usain Bolt took a day off and let his teammates do the work. They gave Bolt a chance for another triple sweep
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Sarah Attar, who ran with her hair and limbs covered, may have finished out of the medal count, but she certainly won over the crowd in London.
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Olympic judges and referees came under fire with one fighter accusing them of "a fix", another successfully appealing a loss and even boxing great Lennox Lewis questioning some of their calls.
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Britain's most successful Olympic team in more than a century is being invited to take part in an open-top bus parade through London on September 10.
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Israel retains occupation championship title in the lack of a real sportsmanship championship
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The slump in West End trade doesn't mean London can't benefit from hosting the Games
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The issue of unfilled stadiums has proved to be a headache for London Olympic organisers (LOCOG) who embarked on a complex ticketing system more than a year ago in an attempt to avoid the gaps in the stands seen at the Beijing Games four years ago.
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After a miserable first week in the gold medal stakes, traditional powerhouse Russia is showing signs of a revival - though not enough to avoid its lowest Olympic finish in 60 years as they stand in 6th place in Medal Count Table today.
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A man who threw a bottle at the finalists of the Olympic men's 100 meters was arrested by London police on Sunday night and could face a prison sentence. Seconds before the starter's gun went off
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Team GB enjoyed an unprecedented level of success at London 2012 on Saturday, recording their most successful medal day in modern Olympic history.Great Britain scooped six gold medals on what has now been dubbed 'Super Saturday' with Jessica Ennis,
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Doping moved back into the spotlight at the London Olympics on Saturday with at least four more confirmed positive cases and a string of high-profile doping offenders returning to the world's biggest sports
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The UK economy is set to benefit from £16.5 billion of GDP, as a direct result of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the British Prime Minister David Cameron and London Mayor Boris Johnson are in tight competition to attract more popularity
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At the summit meeting of European Union leaders in Brussels early Friday morning, Germany’s leader, Angela Merkel, found herself facing a tenacious opponent, one who in the course of an exhausting night of bargaining finally forced the Iron Chancellor to blink. Even more surprising than that was the identity of her antagonist: Mario Monti, the soft-spoken technocratic prime minister of Italy whom Ms. Merkel had helped to install in office.
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There's still one group that loves the training pool for athletes at the former Olympic village in Athens' northern fringe. Frogs.
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Team GB continue their hunt to medal in men's football at London 2012 but the gold remains Brazil's to lose. Mano Menezes' men are the only side to have a 100 per cent record heading into the quarter-finals
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As the popularity contest between British PM David Cameron and London mayor Boris Johnson continues , A poll conducted for the Independent newspaper published recently showed Johnson has emerged as Conservative activists' first choice to replace Cameron,
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To policy makers in Berlin, who have been the target of global pressure to do more to douse Europe’s financial crisis, France poses the bigger obstacle.
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