http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Olympics 60 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:30:53 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/673801.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/673801.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:06 EDT The International Olympic Committee announced Friday that Giselle Davies, the director of communications, has retired after six years on the job. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/674161.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/674161.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:25 EDT The silver and bronze medalists from Belarus in the men's hammer throw at the Beijing Olympics were caught doping and could be stripped of their medals. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/673627.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/673627.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:50 EDT Disgraced former Olympic track and field star Marion Jones was released from a federal prison in Texas Friday after serving a six-month sentence. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/673832.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/673832.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:26 EDT The Olympic committee for the Netherlands Antilles has filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport to try and get back the silver medal that was taken away from Churandy Martina in the men's 200-meter race. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/674296.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/674296.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:15 EDT The four American cyclists who arrived for last month's Beijing Games wearing black masks and were subsequently ordered to apologize for offending the host nation are seeking an apology from the U.S. Olympic Committee. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/673637.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/673637.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:11 EDT More than two out of three people worldwide tuned in for the Beijing Olympics. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/674061.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/674061.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:25 EDT U.S. boxing coach Dan Campbell retired Friday after his attempt to remake the American team backfired in Beijing with its worst showing in Olympic history. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/671940.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/671940.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:17 EDT The International Olympic Committee is investigating the silver and bronze medalists in the men's hammer throw in Beijing for suspected doping offenses. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/670781.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/670781.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:51 EDT The thought of wearing a skintight swimsuit in public makes many people cringe. But gold medal swimmer Michael Phelps said he wouldn't be surprised if he dons his Speedo when he hosts the Sept. 13 season premiere of "Saturday Night Live." http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/668885.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/668885.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:00 EDT Asafa Powell ran the second-fastest 100 meters in the world, clocking 9.72 seconds at the Athletissima Grand Prix meeting on Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/669266.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/669266.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:54 EDT Michael Phelps will put his $1 million bonus to good use, announcing plans to start a foundation promoting water safety and youth swimming. Joe Gromek, president and CEO of Warnaco, Speedo's U.S. parent company, presented a check to Phelps on NBC's "Today" show Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/668951.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/668951.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:00 EDT Usain Bolt clocked 19.63 seconds after easing up before the finish in his first 200-meter race since the Olympics at the Athletissima Grand Prix on Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/669259.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/669259.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:54 EDT LeBron James has gone from the gold-medal stand to the silver screen. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/665632.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/665632.html Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:52 EDT Fans began lining up at 6 a.m. Saturday for a chance to snag free tickets to "The Oprah Winfrey Show" season premiere featuring 150 U.S. Olympic athletes. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/664821.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/664821.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:16 EDT Mistakes by his rivals helped American Michael Phelps win eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, world record-breaking Australian swimmer Eamon Sullivan said Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/664610.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/664610.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:16 EDT The Chinese gold-medal winning gymnast at the center of an Olympic age dispute isn't upset by the controversy. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/665118.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/665118.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:51 EDT Michael Phelps and his eight gold medals are everywhere these days. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/639607.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/639607.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:24 EDT They may not have come home with gold medals around their necks, but the students returning from Beijing as part of the Olympic Orchestra got a hero's welcome from excited family and friends Tuesday afternoon. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/662624.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/662624.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:52 EDT Michael Phelps wants everyone in the pool. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/661609.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/661609.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:38 EDT Barack Obama's presidential campaign says Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson will lead the Pledge of Allegiance at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/661393.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/661393.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:21 EDT One World One Dream. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/657778.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/657778.html Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:01 EDT This time, Dwyane Wade probably won't have a hard time keeping up with his Olympic hardware. Four years after tossing his bronze medal in a bag and later misplacing it, Wade stepped off a flight from Beijing on Monday with his gold medal where it will be for the foreseeable future -- around his neck. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/657937.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/657937.html Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:16 EDT The Olympic torch has been extinguished, the $40 billion party is over and the 12 million people of this city surely will have a five-ringed hangover for the next few days -- or even weeks. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/659364.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/659364.html Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:48 EDT Somewhere along the way it became gauche to say your favorite part of Paris was the Eiffel Tower. The obvious is cliche, so we praise the quirky or, as has recently come into fashion, bash the obvious as really not that good. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/659366.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/659366.html Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:48 EDT This time, Dwyane Wade probably won't have a hard time keeping up with his Olympic hardware. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/656171.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/656171.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:01 EDT The Beijing Olympics were like the marathon won by Samuel Wanjiru of Kenya on Sunday: Off with a bang, run at an unbelievable pace and finished in record time. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/656904.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/656904.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:40 EDT Fidel Castro on Monday defended the Cuban taekwondo athlete who kicked a referee in the face at the Beijing Olympics, saying Angel Matos was rightfully indignant over his disqualification from the bronze-medal match. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655847.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655847.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:01 EDT BEIJING - It wasn't so much the way the U.S. men's basketball team played in its 118-107 gold-medal win over Spain that proved how deeply these NBA superstars cared about the Olympics, although certainly their intensity against the talented Spaniards spoke volumes. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/656401.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/656401.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:16 EDT With help from British star power, China concluded its debut as Olympic host Sunday after 16 days of near-flawless logistics and superlative athletic achievement - coexisting awkwardly with the government's wariness of dissent and free speech. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/657494.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/657494.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:52 EDT BEIJING - I am sorry to say I wasn't there for Michael Phelps' come-from-behind victory in the 100-meter butterfly. Or for Jason Lezak's miracle swim in the 4x100 freestyle relay that saved Phelps' record run. Or for Phelps' swim that got him his eighth gold medal. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655792.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655792.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:01 EDT China on Monday deported a British woman and a German man who took part in a protest during the Olympic Games, officials said, hours after eight American activists were sent home during the closing ceremony. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/657218.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/657218.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:13 EDT Eight American activists jailed by the Chinese for protesting during the Olympics said Monday after being sent home from Beijing that they were interrogated for hours, deprived of sleep and accused of having ties to the U.S. government. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655049.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655049.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:01 EDT BEIJING - Seven years ago, when Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympic Games, China set out to sow gold, following the old proverb that says, "To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep." http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655502.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655502.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:13 EDT Sitting here in the Main Press Workroom inside the sprawling Main Press Center, I can see journalists from all over the world. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655965.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655965.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:26 EDT Bakhyt Sarsekbayev of Kazakhstan has won the welterweight boxing gold medal, upsetting Cuban favorite Carlos Banteaux 18-9. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655560.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655560.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:43 EDT BEIJING - Samuel Wansiru doesn't look the part of punishing warrior, standing 5-foot-4 and 112 pounds. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655968.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655968.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:26 EDT Hungary has won a third consecutive gold medal in men's water polo. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655565.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655565.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:43 EDT BEIJING - Matt Tegenkamp felt helpless as he watched the Ethiopian and Kenyan runners pull away over the final five laps of the men's 5,000 meters at the Beijing Olympics. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655971.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655971.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:26 EDT Athletes competed, danced and in the most politically contentious Olympics in decades shied away from protest. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/654811.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/654811.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:23 EDT They're golden girls again. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655570.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655570.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:43 EDT It's 1:30 a.m. and the world's fastest man is in a partying mood. Jamaican dancehall music blares from the speakers of the dance club, and Usain Bolt is already glistening with sweat. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655980.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655980.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:31 EDT Russia has won the Olympic bronze medal in men's volleyball, defeating Italy in straight sets. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655586.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655586.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:58 EDT China proved an acquisitive first-time Olympic host, topping the gold-medal chart with one of the most dominating and diverse performances ever. The United States, Britain and an array of small nations also had reasons to celebrate. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655992.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655992.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:51 EDT BEIJING - Hugh McCutcheon looked around the gym floor for someone, anyone, with a cell phone in their hand. The U.S. men's volleyball coach had left his in the locker room Sunday. But he could not wait another minute to call his wife, Elisabeth Bachman McCutcheon, and share his gold medal moment with her. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655756.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655756.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:26 EDT BEIJING - The most expensive and lavish Olympic Games in history came to a close Sunday as Beijing officially passed the Olympic flame to London, and the countdown started for 2012 games that the British say will be frugal but fun. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/656076.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/656076.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:31 EDT BEIJING - As the cable car soared over Mutianyu, I couldn't help but reflect on my first trip to the Great Wall. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655817.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/olympics/story/655817.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:01 EDT How much is an Olympic medal worth?