Olympics
Four years ago, Sebastian Coe stood in a conference room at the main press center in Beijing and spoke about the kind of Olympics that China was in the process of hosting.
“The International Olympic Committee recognizes this will be the last edition of a games which is going to look and feel like this,” Coe said that August afternoon. “We won’t attempt to equal the scale and stature of such an extravaganza.”
BARCELONA, Spain – Gold medal at stake or nothing at all, the U.S. Olympic basketball team was bringing its best Tuesday.
Ben Wilden is rehearsing the trampoline act that he performs in “Mystere,” the Cirque du Soleil show at Treasure Island.
LONDON – London Games officials dismissed concerns Tuesday over a lost bus driver, a scramble for more security guards and some rain-soaked venues – embarrassments that had one tabloid newspaper headline using the Olympic rings to spell out the word “OOPS!”