Five-time Olympic medalist Missy Franklin set a new record in the women's 100m backstroke with a time of 58.67 seconds at the 2013 Phillips 66 National Championships and World Championship Trials

Olympic bobsledding gold medalist Steven Holcomb criticized hurdler-turned-bobsledder Lolo Jones after she posted a video complaining about the $741.84 check she received

Squash, baseball/softball and wrestling made it to the shortlist of candidates for possible inclusion as an additional sport for the 2020 Olympic Games

Olympic gold medalist and Bulgaria's top wrestling coach Armen Nazaryan has started a hunger strike to protest the International Olympic Committee's move to drop the sport after the 2016 Olympics

Mike Eruzione's jersey and stick that he used during the 1980 US hockey team's 'Miracle On Ice' victory over heavy favorite Russia have been sold for almost $1 million in an auction conducted by Heritage Auctions

South African Olympic star Oscar Pistorius appeared in court after being charged with murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home. The Pistorius family issued a statement disputing the murder charge

South African running star Oscar Pistorius -- the first double-amputee to run at the Olympics -- will appear in court on murder charges after a woman was shot dead at his residence

Dwight Howard expressed his willingness to play for the US Olympic team in 2016. He won Olympic gold with the U.S. in the 2008 Beijing Games but had to miss the 2012 London Games

Oscar Pistorius, known as 'Blade Runner' for his use of carbon fiber prosthetic blades in Olympic competition, has been charged with murder for allegedly killing his girlfriend at his home

The days of wrestling in the Olympics are numbered as the International Olympic Committee executive board has recommended the sport's dropping from the Summer Olympic Games

Consider this: If Team USA's women competed as their own nation, they would rank an astounding third in the gold-medal count. The U.S. women won 58 of Team USA's 104 total medals

Team USA's NBA all-stars linked arms and stepped onto the podium together to accept their Olympic gold medals, their back-to-back titles leaving no doubt about their status as the world's top team

With Its medal tally of 29 medals, Team USA scored its biggest Olympic medal collection in Track and Field since the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona

Eight years after his Olympic silver, Meb Keflezighi returned to the Olympic marathon at the age of 37 to finish in fourth place in 2:11:06

In the Men's Olympic Volleyball final, Brazil could not capitalize to seal the deal against Russia. Italy won the bronze by edging Bulgaria 3-1

After two and a half sets it looked like Brazil would cruise to their third Olympics title, but the Brazilians eventually missed out to Russia

In a game that featured 16 lead changes and six ties, 30 points from Kevin Durant led a balanced attack that helped Team USA fight off Spain for a 107-100 win to capture the Olympic gold medal

Russia's Dmitriy Muserskiy set a new scoring record of 31 points for an Olympic Games volleyball gold medal match

Italy's bronze medal at the London Olympics was their first in a major tournament since silver at Athens 2004 and the aim is to build a new period of dominance in men's volleyball

Italy could not fulfil their dream of gold in London but were still happy to claim their fifth Olympic medal after edging Bulgaria 3-1 in the Men's Volleyball Bronze Medal Match

The Russians may have been left behind in the medal race, but they came up with some exceptional feats like when Sergey Kirdyapkin clinched the grueling 50km race walk title with an Olympic-record

It was one of the last gold-medal moments for the USA on the final day of the 2012 Olympic Games. And it belonged to American Jake Varner and the freestyle wrestling team

U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Team opposite hitter Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas) was selected as the Best Spiker of the 2012 Olympic Games women's volleyball competition

Team USA's victory over France cemented the women's fifth straight gold medal in basketball, an Olympic record for consecutive championships in a women's team sport

Restoring Team USA to a dominant position in international men's basketball existed all along, even as a series of embarrassing defeats made the triumphant Barcelona Games seem like a distant memory

A commanding victory in the women's 4x400 relay and thrilling silvers in the men's 4x100 and women's high jump on Saturday night made for an exciting conclusion to track competition at Olympic Stadium

David Boudia became the first American man to win an Olympic gold medal in 20 years when he won the men's 10-meter platform gold

Striker Oribe Peralta scored twice and Mexico finally captured its first-ever Olympic gold medal with a 2-1 triumph over heavy favorite Brazil in the men's soccer finals at Wembley Stadium

The U.S. Olympic Women's Basketball Team blew the game wide open with a 19-0 run in the 3rd quarter that propelled the USA to a 86-50 win over France and a fifth-straight Olympic gold medal

Kristi Harrower buried five pressure-packed foul shots to help Australia weather a late rally by Russia to win, 83-74, the bronze medal in women's basketball

South Africa's Blade-runner, Oscar Pistorius, will get another shot at Olympic glory when he competes in the 4x400m relay final, after his team won a controversial appeal

USA Decathletes Ashton Eaton and Trey Hardee prepared to make Olympic history by meeting Olympic history. Pulling on the motivation from those who came before them, Eaton and Hardee took gold and silver

Great Britain's Nicola Adams made history when she became the first woman boxer to win Olympic boxing gold after beating China's Ren Cancan in the flyweight category

Claressa Shields improved the Americans' mediocre performance in the boxing ring after pounding her way to a 19-12 victory over Nadezda Torlopova of Russia in the middleweight division

Days after a German Olympic rower was ejected from the Games Village on suspicion that her boyfriend was part of a 'far-right' group that allegedly attacked police personnel, investigations opened

It was a game of redemption for Team USA. A chance to face again on the world stage the foes who outkicked them for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup title

Jamaica's Usain Bolt wins the 200 meters final to become the first athlete ever to win the 100m and 200m Olympic titles twice

Ashton Eaton and Trey Hardee went 1-2 in the decathlon, while Christian Taylor and Will Claye did the same in the triple jump as Team USA added four more medals in track competition Thursday night

Running the first leg for Team USA in the 4x400m semifinal, Manteo Mitchell was pivotal in helping his team to the final. Without a doubt, it was the fastest time ever by a runner who broke his leg

Carli Lloyd scored two goals and the U.S. women's soccer team avenged its 2011 World Cup loss to Japan with a 2-1 victory to win the Olympic gold medal for the third straight time

The U.S. Olympic Women's Water Polo Team won their first-ever Olympic gold medal tonight with an 8-5 defeat of Spain in the championship match of the 2012 Olympic Games

Trailing by four at the half, the U.S. Olympic Women's Basketball Team buckled down on defense in the 2nd half to rally for a hard-fought win against Australia to advance to the gold medal game

Everything is set for a terrific showdown in the Men's Olympic Volleyball semifinals, as Bulgaria and Russia open the program; followed by the much awaited clash between Italy and Brazil

In what will be a rematch of the 2008 Beijing Olympic finals, Team USA and Brazil will be fighting for gold after they dominated their respective semi-finals with Korea and Japan

The Brazilian Women's Volleyball team will try to prolong its supremacy by taking on Team USA in the Olympic final after downing Japan in straight sets in the semi-finals

Team USA advanced to the Women's Olympic Volleyball finals for the third time in history after routing Korea in three straight sets

Germany's Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann wasted three match points, but won gold with the fourth as they beat Brazil's Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego in a three-set thriller

Latvian duo Martins Plavins and Janis Smedins came from a set down to beat Dutch pair Richard Schuil and Reinder Nummerdor in the Men's Beach Volleyball bronze medal match

"We deserve this. Being given a chance of passing the semifinal, we now want gold. Now we play USA and we can do good things"

A packed crowd watched on as the U.S. men's 4x400m team rolled smoothly to the final, two U.S. women advanced to the high jump final, and Ashton Eaton and Trey Hardee maintained their lead in the decathlon

Forget about the badminton scandal. Perhaps the most egregious behavior so far at these Olympic Games has been the boxing officiating

Aly Raisman's day just kept getting better. Before she became the first U.S. gymnast in history to win a gold medal on floor exercise, Raisman took the bronze on the balance beam

So far, Anthony Davis has 26 points, 14 rebounds, three blocks, one steal and the highest field goal percentage. Not bad for someone without any NBA experience on a team full of superstars

For the third time in program history, the U.S. Olympic Women's Water Polo Team will play for an Olympic Gold Medal. Team USA topped Australia 11-9 in overtime to advance to the final

The U.S. men's beach volleyball team of Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal finished the 2012 Olympic Games in fifth place after falling to Martins Plavins and Janis Smedins of Latvia in the quarterfinals

With the world's eyes glued to the track to witness the rivalry between Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake, a man who had been shouting at Bolt, suddenly got up and threw a bottle on the track

Facing a criminal trial back home and winning an Olympic gold in London --- this is the story of Kenya's Ezekiel Kemboi who won the men's 3000m steeplechase

Roger Federer has ruled Wimbledon like a king, but on a rainy and gloomy Sunday afternoon, it was local boy, Andy Murray, who came out of the shadow of the champion to win the Olympic men's singles title

The day the curtains came down on the swimming events at the London Games, Michael Phelps too walked into the golden sunset, but not before he had clinched one final title

Celebrated Chinese hurdler, Liu Xiang, can well forget about Olympic Games glory in the future as he crashed out in the 110m hurdles qualification round after running into the first hurdle

A security alert was sounded in Great Britain after seven Cameroon athletes disappeared, possibly in search of a better life

Team USA had its biggest day in Track & Field thus far at the 2012 Olympic Games, bringing home three silver medals and one bronze -- including some from unexpected sources

Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh advanced to their third straight women's beach volleyball Olympic final after defeating China's Chen Xue and Xi Zhang in the semifinals

Stifling defense from the U.S. Olympic Women's Basketball Team held Canada to just 30.2 percent shooting as the USA cruised to a 91-48 win to move on to the semifinals

Long the best pole vaulter in the United States, Jenn Suhr officially became the best pole vaulter in the world when she won the gold medal in a stirring competition

Italians ruled at the Royal Artillery Barracks with Niccolo Campriani winning the men's 50m rifle 3-positions gold with an Olympic record to boot

Alex Morgan headed in the game-winning goal in extra time to lift the United States women's soccer team to a 4-3 victory over Canada and into the gold-medal game at London Olympics

The IOC has disqualified American judoka Nicholas Delpopolo from the 73-kilogram competition after allegedly testing positive for marijuana

Already out of the medal race, Great Britain gave its home fans something to be proud of, slaying basketball giant China, 90-58, for its first-ever win in Olympic men's basketball

For the badminton purists, there couldn't have been a much more entertaining match than between China's defending champion Lin Dan and his fearsome rival from Malaysia Lee Chong Wei

Usain Bolt pulled away from the pack with every long stride to win the men's 100-meter dash at the London Olympics

The men's 100-meters final had all the trappings of a five-way heavyweight title bout, with some of the greatest 100m men in history vying for the title of World's Fastest Human

Having waited four years for her golden moment, Sanya Richards-Ross, the world's top 400 meter runner, claimed the 400m Olympic gold medal she had long coveted

The Williams Sisters defeated Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic in two sets to win their third Women's doubles overall

The U.S. Olympic Women's Water Polo Team advanced to the semifinals with a 9-6 defeat of Italy. Melissa Seidemann scored three goals and Betsey Armstrong posted 13 saves in the victory

The U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Team started slow and finished strong to defeat Turkey 27-25, 25-16, 25-19 to finish the Olympic Games Pool B undefeated

Serena Williams achieved the elusive 'Golden Slam' -- winning all four major tournaments plus the Olympic gold medal -- with the most dominating singles win in Games history

The U.S. men's beach volleyball team of Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal defeated Konstantin Semenov and Serguei Prokopiev of Russia in the first round of single elimination

The U.S. women's beach volleyball team of Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh overwhelmed Greta Cicolari Marta Menegatti in 33 minutes in the quarterfinals of the Olympic tournament

The U.S. women's beach volleyball team of Jen Kessy and April Ross advanced to the Olympic semifinals with a victory over the Czech Republic's Marketa Slukova and Kristyna Kolocova