Argentina retained the Olympic gold medal in soccer by beating Nigeria 1-0 in Saturday’s final with a stunning goal from Angel Di Maria.
The Beijing Olympics are exposing viewers to the talent of Marta Vieira da Silva, a 22-year-old Brazilian who believes she was born to play football.
Funding and selection models for Olympic sporting codes are set to change in preparation for London 2012, the Mail & Guardian has been told.
Jamaica made a clean sweep of Olympic sprint golds on Thursday with victory in the women’s 200m to complete their domination over the United States.
Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt should show more respect for his rivals, says International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge.
Exactly 100 years ago a Chinese YMCA lecturer had a dream — that one day China would host the Olympic games.
Usain ”Lightning” Bolt roared to gold in the 200m on Wednesday to become the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win an Olympic sprint double.
Natalie du Toit pulled herself on to the dock and waited for someone to bring her prosthetic leg. Du Toit didn’t finish where she wanted.
Britain notched their highest gold medal tally in a century on Tuesday with four victories in running, cycling and sailing for the 2012 hosts.
Olympic champion Michael Phelps could earn -million through endorsement and sponsorship deals, his agent said in an interview published on Monday.
Tensions in South Africa’s swimming camp boiled over on Sunday as Roland Schoeman took a massive swipe at Gerhard Zandberg.
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.
Spain’s Olympic basketball teams posed for a pre-Olympics advertisement making ”slit-eyed” gestures on a court decorated with a Chinese dragon.
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.
Sport and Recreation Minister Makhenkesi Stofile has asked his staff to explain why a marketing centre in Beijing has not been operational.
Michael Phelps won a record-equalling seventh Olympic gold medal in Beijing, ahead of Saturday’s showpiece, the athletics’ men’s 100m final.
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.
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.