Weightlifting

Of all the butterfly goaltenders in the NHL, Patrick Roy likes the style of Jean-Sebastien Giguere the best. It is immense praise for Giguere, 31, the Anaheim Ducks netminder who can remember plopping in front of the...

When Yu Fen, China's venerated diving coach, first met Wang Ruoxue four years ago, she found the then-12-year-old former gymnast a highly promising prospect. There was just one problem. "I told her that she should...

Michael Phelps may rule the American sports universe for these Olympics, but in China, ask local fans who they're supporting and you'll start hearing names like Lin Dan (badminton), Zhang Yining (table tennis) and...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece on Tuesday promised tougher penalties against doping, amid a drug scandal that is likely to exclude the national weightlifting team from the Beijing Olympics.

Once upon a time, elite athletes who took extreme doses of anabolic steroids were sure that the drugs helped them jump higher, run faster, grow stronger. But these notions had never been verified in a lab. So in 1975...