Modern Pentathlon

The U.S. has sent nearly 600 athletes to Beijing for the Olympic Games. But who are they? America's new set of Olympians are from 47 of the 50 states -- as well as athletes who were born in 28 other countries -- and...

Flash back to the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea, where the former Soviet Union assembled perhaps the most dominant men's gymnastics team on record. Two of the members, Valeri Liukin and Dmitri Bilozerchev, combined...

She may have been starstruck and in awe, but Medford (Medford, Mass.) junior Arantxa King made sure to take advantage of the time she met her track idol, two-time Olympic long jump gold medalist Heike Drechsler of...

What have you accomplished in the past few months? Maybe you caught up on the latest love triangle on The O.C. or dabbled in a recent fad like ballroom dancing (and quit once you realized that most ballroom dancers...

The first shot was fired in August 2002, at an International Olympic Committee meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was a simple proposal by the IOC's Program Commission to improve the Summer Games by adding two of...