Olympics 2000

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.The Americans, who now have taken 12 of ...

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"."It's the ...

Yaounde: Cameroon has declared Monday a public holiday to celebrate its national soccer team's Olympic gold medal.President Paul Biya announced the holiday in a decree read on state television on Saturday.Cameroon, the African champions, succeeded Nigeria as Olympic champi...

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.Ponlid's 19-12 victory over Kazakhstan's world flyweight champion Bulat Jumadilovto ...

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.In a speech welcoming Cuban athletes who returned from Sydney on Friday, ...

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 ...

Sydney: The Games are over, and the party's begun. Well the party's been on for quite sometime. Almost from the day, millions of Australians gathered to see the live telecast of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announcement handing them the Games ...

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. The athletes come and go, their results continue to be abysmal. ...

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.India picked up their bronze in a historic performance in weightlifting by two times world champion Karnam Malleswari, the ...

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.Armenian weightlifter Ashot Danielyan has be...

Sydney: Ethiopian Gezahgne Abera won the men's Olympic marathon on Sunday as African runners swept the medals.Abera was given an unofficial time of two hours 10 minutes 11 seconds, beating Eric Wainaina of Kenya and Tesfaye Tola, also of Ethiopia.The trio ...

Sydney: Bogongs, the big, fat hairy moths that have plagued the Sydney Olympics, flooded in on the act at the closing ceremony on Sunday.One particularly large specimen landed on the bodice of a salmon pink evening gown worn by Australian soprano ...