Natalie Woolfolk set 40 personal bests this past summer and after four years of practice at the Olympic Training Center she enters the World Weightlifting Championships poised to qualify for the 2008 Games.

Dominic Wade is 16. He repeats this fact constantly, because even those who know his age tend to forget it when they watch him fight in a boxing ring. He’s thick at 165 pounds, and the ring jiggles underneath him when he bounces up and down. Boxing promoters already have asked Dominic, from Largo,…

Two-time defending champion United States falls to Russia, 75-68, in the semifinals of the Women’s World Basketball Championship Thursday night in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Marion Jones will not race again this season because she says her conditioning is lacking after taking a month off following her positive EPO test.

The U.S. Olympic Committee announces Friday at the National Press Club?that Eddie Reese?and Jack Bauerle will coach the men’s and women’s swimming teams in the 2008 games.

Marion Jones is cleared?of an anti-doping violation because testing on the second-half of her urine sample does not confirm the positive result on the first, according to her attorney.

Sir Clive Woodward has been handed the task of boosting Britain’s medal prospects at future Olympic Games. Woodward, who coached England to their Rugby World Cup triumph in 2003 before trying his hand with less success at Southampton Football Club, has been appointed the British Olympic Association’s new director of élite performance.

SAITAMA, Japan — When the U.S. basketball team was assembled this year, it embarked on a three-year march to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Now the road to China must go through South America.

Cat Osterman pitches a two-hit complete game and strikes out nine, lifting the United States past China, 2-0, at the softball world championship in Beijing.

American arrogance is a major culprit as to Team USA’s continuing struggles in international basketball and until the U.S. stops underestimating its opponents it will continue to lose.

SAITAMA, Japan?– Once they realized they couldn’t shoot, the Americans knew they had to make sure Dirk Nowitzki couldn’t, either.

Antawn Jamison has enjoyed his experience with Team USA and says he will bring back the lessons he has learned to the Wizards.

Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas says his groin injury was an excuse to leave the U.S. national team instead of getting cut outright and that he feels he did not receive a fair shot at making the squad.