Sydney: The US men's basketball team clinched their third consecutive Olympic gold medal on Sunday, but only after a tougher-than-expected 85-75 victory over France who with four minutes left trailed by only four points.
Sydney: You've run your last race or played your last game at the Sydney Olympics. Now what?Psychologists and other experts warn that the 16,000 athletes who took part in the world's biggest sports event risk a case of "post-Olympic blues".
Yaounde: Cameroon has declared Monday a public holiday to celebrate its national soccer team's Olympic gold medal.
Sydney: Boxer Wijan Ponlid slugged his way to Olympic gold and riches on the final day of the Sydney Games on Sunday with a victory which set off wild celebrations in Thailand.
Havana: Cuba's President Fidel Castro denounced what he called "a disgusting mafia" among international boxing judges which he said had "robbed" some Cuban boxers of medals at the Sydney Olympics.
Sydney: A long line of boxing excellence -- from Floyd Patterson to Cassius Clay, from Sugar Ray Leonard to Oscar de la Hoya -- ended on Sunday when US fighters failed for the first time in 52 years to win a single Olympic gold.
Sydney: The Games are over, and the party's begun. Well the party's been on for quite sometime.
Sydney: This is a chronicle of a disaster foretold. A chronicle that sees a new edition every four years, but not very dissimilar from the one written four years earlier.
Sydney: One bronze medal doesn't go far among a billion people, as Indians will certainly make clear to their 70-strong Sydney Olympic team.
Sydney: An Armenian and Norwegian athlete have tested positive for drugs, taking the number of Olympic athletes caught taking banned substances in competition in Sydney to seven, an IOC medical commission official said on Sunday.