The ban on Iraq competing at the Beijing Olympics next month has been lifted, the International Olympic Committee announced on Tuesday.
During the Olympic Games Gao Benxu hopes to brush up his English by opening up his apartment to a family visiting from abroad.
Haze that has covered Beijing for the last few days cleared on Tuesday as rain fell 10 days before the Olympics begin.
The UN General Assembly and UN chief Ban Ki-Moon have called for a truce in hostilities around the world during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Beijing’s Olympic organisers are planning new emergency measures to reduce pollution after steps introduced a week ago failed to stop a grimy haze.
Avoid questions about income. Steer clear of religion and politics. And please, don’t ask foreigners visiting for the Olympics about their sex life.
Police struggled on Friday to control surging crowds of more than 50 000 people desperate to grab the last Olympic tickets in Beijing.
The Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open. And this year, a fifth Grand Slam: the Beijing Olympics.
How sports are reported around the world has huge relevance for what South Africans can expect of coverage of the 2010 World Cup.
A whole series of problems that have proven tough to fix could give visitors an Olympic-sized headache.
The first Olympic Games in the world’s most populous country highlight how difficult it has been over the years to keep sports and politics apart.
SA go into their fifth Olympic Games since sporting isolation with their medal hopes once again pinned on their swimmers and track and field athletes.
SA’s hopes of a gold in the 100m freestyle at the Olympic Games received a major blow when it was confirmed that Roland Schoeman would not take part.
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius was not chosen on Friday to be on South Africa’s Olympic team for the Beijing Games.
A road has finally come to Xin Cun, a hamlet perched on a sandy ridge beneath a blank grey sky in China’s Shaanxi province.
Yu Pingju has little Olympic cheer. If the government demolishes her house, she may have to watch the Beijing Games on the street.
One ticket for the opening ceremony of next month’s Olympic Games in Beijing changed hands for up 000.
Zhou Zhilian is one of thousands of entrepreneurs for whom the Olympic Games represent more a missed opportunity than a chance to cash in.
When the Beijing Olympics open in August, music will play a huge part in reinforcing the image and message of the Games.
SA’s Olympics governing body is full of whites and Indians who don’t understand transformation and who lack vision, says Butana Komphela.
Big nations like China and the US might grab all the Olympic medal attention, but the world’s sporting minnows plan to grab some of the limelight.
The drafting of of troops to battle a massive algae bloom in Olympic co-host city Qingdao shows China’s resolve to hold a successful sailing event.
China’s media marked one month before the opening of the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday, pledging to host a successful Games.
On a corner of the eastern extension of the Avenue of Eternal Peace, Beijing’s oldest and newest cultures lie in bizarre proximity.
World champion Tyson Gay’s dream of an Olympics double ended in pain when he crashed out of the US 200m quarterfinals on Saturday.
Beijing’s notoriously foul-smelling and poorly tended public toilets will feature some rarely seen luxuries during the Olympics.
When Coroebus of Elis won the first Olympic sprint in 776 BC, the result was scratched on to parchment and read out in market places.
A leading US congressman said on Tuesday that China was carrying out a tragic crackdown to smother dissent during the Olympics.
World champion Tyson Gay ran the fastest 100m of all-time to win the United States Olympic trials on Sunday, a wind-assisted 9,68 seconds.
Hungry hordes craving a fix of diced chicken fried with chili and peanuts during the Beijing Olympics will be able to shout ”kung pao chicken!”