VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Organizers of the Vancouver Winter Olympics and Paralympics, which ended on Sunday, are confident of avoiding a budget deficit when the final bills are paid. "We think we're sitting in a pretty good spot and will have a balanced budget when we're done," Dave Cobb, executive vice president of the Vancouver Organizing Committee, said before the ...

The IAAF is recommending the U.S. women's 4x400 meter relay team at the 2004 Athens Olympics be stripped of its gold medal because qualifying runner Crystal Cox has admitted to doping. The IOC has opened a formal investigation into the case, and ...

DOHA (Reuters) - The IAAF will recommend the U.S. women's 2004 Olympic 4x400 meters relay team be stripped of its gold medal because of the doping suspension of relay alternate Crystal Cox, federation spokesman Nick Davies said on Monday. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has begun a disciplinary procedure involving Cox and the U.S. relay team, and the ...

Used, perhaps abused and now tossed away. Chinese officials' treatment of Olympic gymnast Dong Fangxiao, found to have been underage when China fielded her at the Sydney Games in 2000, really makes the blood boil. Despite China's official denials, accumulating evidence that Dong was just 14 ...