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.

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.

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

  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.

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.

The Asian and international handball federations have agreed to take their dispute over replays of Olympic qualifying matches to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, an Asian federation official said Tuesday

Katie Hoff set her second American record in as many days yesterday when she and six-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps each cruised to a pair of victories at the Missouri Grand Prix.

Philip Dunn of San Diego won the U.S. men’s 50-kilometer Olympic racewalking trials Saturday, moving closer to what would be his third trip to the Summer Games.

Mazeika, who coached the team that won the silver medal in Athens, was also the coach of last year’s world championship team, which finished fourth after a 13th-place finish the year before.

Birgit Fischer, a kayaker who won eight Olympic gold medals, will skip the Beijing Games because she hasn’t trained enough.

The former Olympic and world champion cited nagging injuries for his decision, making the announcement halfway around the globe

Beijing has begun shutting down blast furnaces in the city’s biggest steel company to improve air quality. It is also expected to enact temporary traffic restrictions during the games to ease traffic and reduce vehicle exhaust.