The unstoppable Michael Phelps won his sixth gold medal with his sixth world record of the Beijing Games on Friday.
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.
Roland Schoeman, a silver medallist in the 100m freestyle at the Athens Games, is looking to give struggling South Africa an Olympic medal boost.
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.
Top seed Roger Federer avenged his Athens 2004 humiliation with a convincing win over Tomas Berdych as he remained on course for an Olympic final.
South Africa’s men and women hockey teams have been under the cosh in Beijing after both sides lost their opening two games.
High hopes for South African tennis this week at the Olympic Games and in Washington, DC, have ended in failure.
Australia pulverised hapless South Africa 10-0 on Wednesday in their quest to retain the Olympic men’s field hockey gold medal.
Michael Phelps became the greatest Olympian in history on Wednesday, capturing the 10th and 11th gold medals of his Games career.
The girl who starred at the Olympic opening ceremony was only on stage because the real singer was not considered attractive enough, it was revealed.
US sisters Serena and Venus Williams powered on towards a likely gold-medal showdown with easy second-round wins on Tuesday.
As the Beijing Olympic Games highlight China’s emergence as a world power, the EU is struggling to take a coherent approach to the Asian giant.
China’s Li Na produced a shock defeat of Svetlana Kuznetsova as the Olympic tennis tournament produced a catalogue of upsets on Monday.
Jean Basson in the 200m freestyle offered some Olympic hope for a first SA medal on a day that saw the US victorious in the 4x100m relay final.
American swimmer Michael Phelps needed a little help from his friends to pip France in the relay on Monday and keep alive his dream of eight golds.
A study has found choosing the colour red for a uniform in competitive sports can affect the referee’s split-second decision-making ability.
”It’s anyone’s game tomorrow,” is the message from Darian Townsend after the South African team were confined to third in their heat.
China leapt and twisted to gold in the women’s synchronised three metre springboard on Sunday, claiming the first diving medals.
Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry, who won silver in the Olympic 400m individual medley on Sunday, said she would never compete for another country.
Jamaica’s world record holder Usain Bolt has a lot more weighing on his shoulders than just trying to become his country’s first Olympic 100m champion
The hopes of strife-torn Sudan for an elusive Olympic medal lie squarely on the teenaged shoulders of 800m runner Abubaker Kaki Khamis.
The Czech Republic took first honours at the Olympics on Saturday, and China also won an early gold to cap a dazzling opening ceremony.
Resurgent China opened the Olympics on Friday with a burst of fireworks at a spectacular ceremony that celebrated ancient Chinese history.
As the Summer Games open in Beijing, actor and activist Mia Farrow is webcasting the ”Darfur Olympics” from a refugee camp on the Sudan-Chad border.
Lucky Sindane assesses which South Africans have the potential to bring medals home.
Teams will soon line up for the event in which South Africa won their sole gold medal of the previous Olympics — the 4x100m freestyle relay.
Nepali police detained hundreds of angry Tibetan refugees who tried to storm a Chinese consular office in Kathmandu on Friday.
These are the first Olympic Games in which anticipation of the athletes’ feats has been overshadowed by speculation about the nature of the event.
The most lavish Olympic Games of the modern era will get under way on Friday in the spectacular Bird’s Nest stadium, with more than 80 heads of state.
Olympic football champions Argentina began the defence of their title on Thursday ahead of the Games’ opening ceremony on Friday.