Lee Nguyen – Average: 5.5 (Brian 5.5, Sean 5.5) Seemed to spring to life after back-to-back quiet nights; passing was sharp, and shooting actually kept Perkins honest. Got
While the Chinese basketball team that he used to lead was routed one game after another at the London Olympics, the 7-foot-6 center who spearheaded a basketball boom
WA’s favourite beach girl Jessica Gomes has been tasked with spearheading Mambo’s international swimwear campaign. The Sports Illustrated model, who has reached superstar status in Asia – she
China’s Xue Chen and Zhang Xi were left to nurse keen disappointment after losing out in the women’s beach volleyball bronze medal match despite having been only two
LONDON (AP) — Middleweight Ryota Murata won the second boxing gold medal in Japan’s Olympic history Saturday night, edging Brazil’s Esquiva Falcao 14-13. Murata is the only Japanese
Aug 10 (Reuters) – There were plenty of multi-coloured ribbons and florescent clubs flying through the air at Wembley Arena on Friday but when South Korean rhythmic gymnast
South Korea’s soccer players won bronze with a 2-0 win over Japan, but many admitted they were also celebrating an even greater prize: the chance to skip military
Japanese sprinter Maya Nakanishi published a calendar featuring her posing semi-nude with her prosthetic leg to help fund her training and trip to the London Paralympic Games. Nakanishi
She had wanted to end it with some good old-fashioned give-and-take wrestling. Instead, Carol Huynh got two trips to the magic tiebreaker cylinder. Both times after scoreless rounds,
LONDON, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) — Twice world champion Hou Yuzhuo was one step from creating a new piece of history for Chinese taekwondo for being the first woman
LONDON — Lee Dae-hoon won silver in the men’s under-58-kilogram taekwondo competition Wednesday at the London Olympics. Lee lost to Joel Gonzalez Bonilla of Spain 17-8 in the
LONDON, Aug 9 (Bernama) — The country’s flag bearer in the London Olympics, Pandelela Rinong, lived to expectations by winning a bronze medal in the women’s 10m Platform
LONDON : Taekwondo fighter Pen-ek Karaket may retire after his unsuccessful campaign at the 2012 Olympics. Seen as one of Thailand’s best gold medal hopes, Pen-ek lost in
Team Vietnam had female judoka Van Ngoc Tu kick-start its London Olympics journey on July 28, whose first phase wrapped up with 13 athletes going home empty-handed, and
Kaori Icho became the first woman to win three Olympic wrestling titles on Wednesday, while her teammate Hitomi Obara also claimed gold as Japan cemented their dominance of
LONDON–In what will likely be his last Olympics, Koji Murofushi came out with another medal. The fact that it was bronze does not detract from its luster. Murofushi
With Gold medal favorite Liu Xiang unfortunately injured in his 110m heat, China’s hopes for a medal in the hurdles turned to countrymen Xie Wenjun and Shi Dongpeng.
LONDON — The champion hurdler Liu Xiang, the most prominent athlete from China competing in the London Games, suffered another painful Olympic exit on Tuesday morning. Liu Xiang
LONDON — Kieron Achara scored 16 points and Britain sent the home fans into a frenzy by winning its first men’s basketball game at the Olympics since the
LONDON – China’s Chen Yibing, nicknamed “king of rings” failed to wrap up his career Sunday with an Olympic gold on his specialty, but a silver from disputed
What a match! South Korea beat Team Great Britain in the quarterfinals of the 2012 London Games and will now face Brazil in the semifinals. It was another
Kurt Suzuki learned he had been traded from the Oakland A’s, the only team he had known in seven professional seasons, at 11 a.m. Friday. Before he said
The fact that Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei were playing each other for the gold medal in the men’s singles badminton tournament appeared to have escaped most
LONDON (Reuters) – Chinese women’s beach volleyball pair Xue Chen and Zhang Xi powered into the Olympic quarter finals on Saturday with an easy win over a Russian
Liang Chow can sleep more easily now that his gymnastics star, Gabby Douglas, has captured gold medals in the team and individual all-around competitions at the London Olympics.
There was disappointment for Hong Kong swimmer Stephanie Au at the London Olympics. She came last in her heats in 100 metres backstroke, with a time of one
LONDON, ENGLAND – Canada’s Rosannagh MacLennan won a surprising gold medal in women’s trampoline Saturday at the London Games, finishing ahead of Huang Shanshan and He Wenna of
Beijing 2008; both the men’s and women’s table-tennis finals have an all Chinese line up. Four years on at London 2012 and nothing has changed. The undoubted Chinese’s dominance
Kayla Bashore-Smedley is competing at the Olympics for the second time as a member of the U.S. Olympic Field Hockey Team. In the 2008 Olympics, the U.S. Women’s
LONDON — Li Xuerui left no doubt who was the best women’s badminton player in the world when she beat world champion Wang Yihan in the all-Chinese final
Destinee Hooker scored 19 points and the U.S. women’s volleyball team clinched the top spot in their pool with a preliminary-round victory over Serbia in straight sets at
LONDON — Chen Ding started celebrating before the race was even over. He captured gold for China in the 20-kilometer walk at the London Olympics on Saturday by