Britain notched their highest gold medal tally in a century on Tuesday with four victories in running, cycling and sailing for the 2012 hosts.
Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva has taken the art of flirting with the crowd to new heights. Others have simply taken their clothes off.
”I want to help the Olympics. It is just a small thing, but I want to make a contribution” says one of the cheerleaders bussed in to fill empty seats.
Long jumper Khotso Mokoena grabbed SA’s first medal of the Beijing Olympics when he won silver in his event with a jump of 8,24m on Monday.
Australian Emma Snowsill has swept to a devastating victory in the Olympic triathlon, leaving two South African competitors behind.
Chinese superstar Liu Xiang sensationally pulled out of the Games injured on Monday, putting a dampener on China’s success thus far.
The ID has slammed the ”completely unnecessary wastage” of R11-million on a failed publicity project to showcase South Africa at the Beijing Olympics.
The South African men’s hockey team did what the women’s team still have to achieve by scoring their first points of the Beijing Olympics on Sunday.
Juan van Deventer cut it fine, but was helped to qualify for the 1 500m final by the speed of his A semifinal at the Bird’s Nest on Sunday night.
Spain’s Rafael Nadal adds Olympic gold to his glittering season collection as he destroys Chilean Fernando Gonzalez in the men’s singles final.
Michael Phelps completed his stunning display of swimming supremacy with an historic eighth gold medal at the Beijing Games on Sunday.
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt won the men’s Olympic 100m in stunning style on Saturday, obliterating his own world record in 9,69 seconds.
Novak Djokovic claimed Serbia’s first-ever Olympic tennis medal on Saturday while the giant-killing run of China’s Li Na came shuddering to a halt.
World-record holder Usain Bolt scorched into the men’s 100m final of the Beijing Olympics on Saturday, but Tyson Gay crashed out.
South Africa’s men’s rowing pair Ramon di Clemente and Shaun Keeling had to settle for fifth place in their Olympic final on Saturday.
On the sunniest day so far of the Olympics Games, South African fortunes took a turn for the better.
Iraq’s Dana Abdulrazak, who braved sniper fire and bombs in order to train, was a winner just by starting the women’s 100m opening heats on Saturday.
Michael Phelps won a record-equalling seventh Olympic gold medal in Beijing, ahead of Saturday’s showpiece, the athletics’ men’s 100m final.
Children from China’s dominant Han population represented Tibetan and other ethnic groups in the Olympic opening ceremony, an official said.
Roland Schoeman became the fifth South African swimmer to make a final after he finished third in his semifinal of the 50m freestyle on Friday.
He’s only 20 years old, but Jean Basson has shown clear signs of greater things to come, finishing just outside of the medals at his first Games.
Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry has not only given her politically beleaguered country something to smile about.
China faces a repair bill of almost -billion from the Sichuan earthquake, equivalent to one-fifth of its entire tax revenues for a single year.
All is not lost yet, but there is a fair bit of panic in some SA circles as, after almost a week in Beijing, the country is yet to win a medal.
The three fastest men in history all cruised through their Olympic 100m heats in Beijing on Friday.
The unstoppable Michael Phelps won his sixth gold medal with his sixth world record of the Beijing Games on Friday.
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South Africa’s Roland Schoeman proved in Beijing on Thursday night that there is no reason to write him off just yet.
Roger Federer’s troubled season took another turn for the worse when he was sent crashing out of the Olympic Games in a shock quarterfinal defeat.
Frenchman Alain Bernard out-touched rival Eamon Sullivan to take Olympic gold in the 100m freestyle, with SA’s Lyndon Ferns finishing in sixth place.
Frenchman Alain Bernard put aside the demons of an agonising relay defeat to win the men’s 100m freestyle gold medal at the Beijing Games on Thursday.
Michael Phelps came up for air on Thursday morning, swimming just the semifinals of the men’s 200m individual medley.