Hoff is working with Michael Phelps’ coach, Bob Bowman, who has returned to her North Baltimore Aquatic Club after four years at the University of Michigan

Former Old Dominion University star Anna Tunnicliffe has won the Olympic gold medal in Laser Radial sailing after coming from behind in the final medal race to finish second and secure the top spot on overall points.

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Virginia Tech star Queen Harrison today failed to qualify for the Olympic finals in the women’s 400-meter hurdles.

Goran Nava competed for Serbia Friday morning in the men’s 1500 meter run.

Michael Phelps wins his third gold medal Monday night in the 200-meter freestyle.

Cat Osterman started on the mound for the National team, while Danville’s Ashley Taylor pitched for Salem.

They’re from Galax, Danville, Roanoke, and Christiansburg, to name a few, and they’re gearing up to take on the best in the world.

  The 19th Annual Games opened in Roanoke with a rousing opening ceremony at the Roanoke Civic Center.

Student, coach, reporter, world-class athlete and (soon) father.  Adam Nelson has a lot of labels — a lot of balls in the air, so to speak.  But right now, the Virginia assistant track coach has only one 16-pound ball on his mind.

Harrison made the U.S. Olympic team earlier this week in the 400-meter hurdles

  A mixed bag of news for Virginia Tech Fans as the Olympic Trials march on.

  It was an improbable finish from Lane 8, But Virginia Tech’s Queen Harrison is headed to Beijing.

Queen Harrison is ranked second and first in the NCAA in the 100 meter and 400 meter hurdles, respectively

Since Speedo introduced the LZR Racer to the elite swimming world in February, 37 world records have been eclipsed by athletes wearing the suit Speedo has spent more than three years - and millions of dollars - designing and perfecting.

I have a hard time believing anyone born without fibulas, and who later has both legs amputated below the knee, possesses an “unfair” advantage over anyone.

His workouts at ‘The Edge” Sports complex come with equal parts intensity, brutality and pain.  Keno Shepard has taken his dedication to another level in hopes of securing his Olympic dreams at Beijing.

  Angela Tincher and the rest of the Hokies made a national statement with a win over the US Olympic Team.

The German Olympic Sports Union (DOSB) said it was following the events in Tibet with “great attention and concern,“ and added it was aware that the human rights situation in China was still “unsatisfactory” despite improvements in the last few years.

Haile Gebrselassie expects more athletes to follow his lead and drop out of some events at the Beijing Olympics because of the air pollution.  The two-time Olympic 10,000-meter champion said Monday he was disappointed about not competing in the marathon, but that there was no way he would run the race at the games in August.

Arne Ljungqvist, the chair of the International Olympic Committee’s Medical Commission, said endurance events lasting more than an hour could expose participants to breathing problems, but the overall findings showed that “conditions will be good for athletes during the games.“

Zhang Yimou, the director general of the opening and closing ceremonies, has never faced an editing job quite like this one.  “Fifty minutes is not enough time to feature the quintessence of a Chinese culture that has been running for 5,000 years,“ Zhang said.

Female gymnasts will find apartments at the Athletes Village downright spacious. Male weightlifters, however, may seem a bit cramped.

One of the first times Steve Roush went to Beijing, he got off the plane, looked around and asked a local what time the milky fog that enshrouded the city normally lifts.  “They told me, `That isn’t fog,“‘ said the U.S. Olympic Committee’s chief of sport performance, who has made 17 trips to Beijing since 2002 in preparation for the upcoming Olympics.

Beijing is hoping for some rain during August - the city’s hottest and most humid month - to clear the air. Officials are also counting on favorable winds to blow away the smog. August, however, usually isn’t windy.

The world’s best skiers come to British Columbia this week.  It’s a pre-Olympic test race, the only one they and Games organizers will get for the high-profile Alpine skiing event.

U.S. Olympic Committee chairman Peter Ueberroth views American athletes as invited guests to the Beijing Olympics, not China’s would-be reformers.

Marathoners from around the world had complained that the late start to the race will force runners to compete in extreme heat and humidity.

Construction workers completed the Beijing Olympic basketball gymnasium last month, and opened it to foreign press today.  The 18,000 seat arena is alongside the olympic baseball site in the Wukesong culture and sports center.

Russia was awarded the games last year, with an ambitious plan to build almost all facilities from scratch at the Black Sea resort