Olympic host Beijing has set up a sex determination lab to test female Olympic athletes suspected to be males, state media reported on Sunday.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged China not to use security concerns over next month’s Olympics as a cover to crush political dissent.
Police struggled on Friday to control surging crowds of more than 50 000 people desperate to grab the last Olympic tickets in Beijing.
With injuries behind him, Mbulaeni Mulaudzi is confident of making an impact at the London Grand Prix at the Crystal Palace Stadium on Saturday.
For struggling federations of non-Olympic fringe sports, the competition starts much earlier than August, as they compete for inclusion.
The International Olympic Committee has confirmed a ban on Iraq from competing in the Beijing Games in a major blow to seven Iraqi athletes.
Beijing Games organisers will be hoping that competitors in the blue-riband event of athletics can dispel the sordid spectre of doping.
A whole series of problems that have proven tough to fix could give visitors an Olympic-sized headache.
Compared with an Olympic athlete, the Formula One driver of old would not stand a chance in fitness terms. The modern breed is somewhat different.
Traffic restrictions came into force in Beijing on Sunday in a last-ditch attempt to turn the smoggy city into a pollution-free venue for the Games.
Beijing’s biggest single source of pollution has been sacrificed to the Olympics and, this week, media were invited to a triumphant autopsy.
Given the precarious situation in war-torn countries like Iraq and Somalia, it is remarkable that athletes there are able to pursue Olympic dreams.
SA double-amputee athlete Oscar Pistorius saw his hopes of running at next month’s Olympic Games suffer a final blow on Wednesday.
When the Beijing Olympics open in August, music will play a huge part in reinforcing the image and message of the Games.
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius missed out in another attempt to qualify for the Olympics on Friday.
Oscar Pistorius resumes his bid to qualify for the Olympics on Friday at a Golden Gala featuring a cast of standouts honing their form.
With a month remaining until the opening ceremony of one of the most scrutinised Olympic Games in history, the time has come for Beijing to deliver.
Beijing’s notoriously foul-smelling and poorly tended public toilets will feature some rarely seen luxuries during the Olympics.
A senior Chinese security official said the Beijing Olympics are threatened by sabotage and unrest, state media said on Friday.
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius came fourth in an able-bodied race on Wednesday, finishing outside the Olympic qualifying time.
The people of Hou Wang Ge Zhung believe that their small community, an hour’s drive from Beijing, has joined the ranks of China’s ”cancer villages”.
The Olympic torch was paraded on Saturday through the streets of Tibet’s capital, Lhasa — the scene of bloody riots in March.
It has been a long ride from the streets of Brackendowns, in the south-east of Johannesburg, to Beijing.
Swimmer Natalie du Toit will compete in the Olympics and the Paralympics at the Beijing Games after she was named in South Africa’s team on Thursday.
Oscar Pistorius said on Wednesday that he does not believe he has a chance of qualifying to run with able-bodied athletes in the 400m at the Beijing Olympics.
Optimism is flooding back to Beijing two months before the Olympics, with organisers eyeing success despite fears over pollution, security and the potential for more PR blunders.
Multinationals have paid a king’s ransom for their right to sponsor the Olympics and they are scanning the horizon for ambushes as they drive the marketing bandwagon towards Beijing.