Jesse Owens

Click below for a transcript of Bob Costas' joint interview with Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz last night.......

BEIJING - IOC president Jacques Rogge criticized Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt yesterday for showing a lack of respect to other competitors after his record-breaking gold medal performances in the 100 and 200 meters. "That's not the way we perceive being a...

How weird is the Olympics? Six months ago, most of the country had only a vague idea who Michael Phelps is. And this morning, when I turned on National Public Radio, they were talking about whether Phelps is the best athlete ever. That's right. These...

Arms churning high, face twisted in pain as he sprinted toward the finish line, Usain Bolt kept glancing at the clock. The win in the Olympic 200 meters was a given, his second gold medal of the Beijing Games assured. This was now about a world record....

The Chinese have the right idea with this one-time-zone-per-country system. It's more efficient, obviously. But it also cuts down on intra-national squabbling that drags in the likes of NBC publicists and the ESPN ombudswoman, important people with...

IOC president Jacques Rogge criticized Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt on Thursday for showing a lack of respect to other competitors after his record-breaking gold medal performances in the 100 and 200 meters. "That's not the way we perceive being a...

BEIJING - Usain Bolt's eyes darted to check the numbers on the trackside clock once, twice, three times, more. For the only time in eight races at these Olympics, Bolt was really trying - gritting his teeth, pumping his arms, churning his golden spikes...

Double Threat •Usain Bolt of Jamaica, the 100-meter gold medalist, tries to become the ninth man to complete the Olympic sprint double in the 200 today (10:20 a.m., tape-delayed to prime time on Ch. 30): 1984: Carl Lewis, United States 1972:...

Jamaica's Usain Bolt became the ninth man to win the 100- and 200-meter dashes in an Olympics. Bolt is the first to set world records in each race at the Games. ++++++++++++++++++++ || || || || || || || || || || || || || YR || ATHLETE || COUNTY || 100...

To those who know track and field, to those who have watched Usain Bolt grow up, the most significant step he made did not occur in the last three months, when the Jamaican jumped from sprinting's elite into a class of his own. The key stride came when...

Bill Kline: Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympic swimmer of all time, and he's one of the all-time greatest Olympians. But how can you say he's better than Jesse Owens? Owens won four golds in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin in front of Germany's Nazi...

Usain Bolt loves the cameras, the cameras love Usain Bolt, and when they connected during his third win of these Olympics, he smiled that infectious smile and raised three fingers. As in: 3-for-3-for-3. As in: three events, three gold medals, three...