Olympics News

MOSCOW (AFP) - The chief of a top contractor building infrastructure for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in the Russian city of Sochi has been fired in a corruption scandal, its holding company announced Monday. Full Story »

PARIS - The track at the Beijing Olympics belonged to Usain Bolt. Full Story »

LONDON - Two groups of scientists have developed tests for gene doping in what the World Anti-Doping Agency hailed Friday as a major breakthrough in fighting the next frontier in cheating in sports. Full Story »

BEIJING (Reuters) - Former Olympic figure skating champion Yevgeny Plushenko is still determined to compete at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics despite the indefinite ban imposed on him last month. Full Story »

BRUSSELS - IOC president Jacques Rogge believes the cricket match-fixing scandal shows that illegal betting has become as big a blight on sports as doping. Full Story »

SYDNEY (AFP) - Triple Olympic gold medallist swimmer Libby Trickett has come out of retirement for a crack at the 2012 London Games, but Australia's head coach questioned Thursday whether she could recapture her best form. Full Story »

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch judo Olympic champion Anton Geesink, the first non-Japanese to win a world judo championship, has died at the age of 76. Full Story »

LONDON (Reuters) - Planners have given London 2012 Olympic organizers permission to build a temporary water polo center with an inflatable roof. Full Story »

TORONTO (Reuters) - The NHL is prepared to throw women's hockey an Olympic lifeline and said on Thursday that it is in talks to help set up a North American professional league for the world's top female players. Full Story »

NEW YORK (AFP) - US Olympian and American women's marathon record-holder Deena Kastor will not run in the New York Marathon next November because she is pregnant with her first child, she announced Thursday. Full Story »

TORONTO - Canadian women's hockey star Hayley Wickenheiser says the 2014 Sochi Olympics will be her last on the national team. Full Story »

SINGAPORE - Better athletes will be coming to the next Youth Olympics, IOC president Jacques Rogge said Thursday. Full Story »

ROME - They were the Summer Games that ushered in the Olympics as we know them today. Full Story »

SINGAPORE - The head of the U.S. Olympic Committee says he's optimistic he can reach an agreement with the IOC about financing future games. Full Story »

SINGAPORE - Beatrice Derose doesn't gaze upon the Youth Olympics venues or Singapore's gleaming skyscrapers with awe and wonder. Full Story »

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A crescendo of drums, an eclectic array of singers and an elaborate fireworks display brought an end to the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) on Thursday. Full Story »

SINGAPORE (AFP) - IOC president Jacques Rogge on Thursday hailed the Youth Olympics in Singapore as exceeding all expectations as the inaugural Games closed with a colourful ceremony of music and dance. Full Story »

SINGAPORE (AFP) - IOC president Jacques Rogge said Thursday he plans to expand future Youth Olympic Games and introduce a Culture and Education Programme into the traditional Olympics as early as Rio in 2016. Full Story »