The Olympics may be about peace, camaraderie, sportsmanship and all that stuff. But the other thing they’re good for? Alerting us Americans to the fine, fine athletic specimens that other countries boast.
Case in point: South Africa’s Cameron van der B…

Moments before airing Missy Franklin’s tape-delayed Olympic victory in the 100-meter backstroke, NBC ran a promo for Tuesday’s edition of “Today” that said this: ”When you’re 17 years old and win your first gold medal, there’s nobody you’d rather shar…

Sunday night, London’s wavy-haired mayor, Boris Johnson, wrote a column in the Telegraph listing “20 jolly good reasons to feel cheerful about the Games.”  No. 19 takes the cake:

As I write these words there are semi-naked women playing beach volleyb…

En route to her gold-medal performance in the women’s 100-meter butterfly race, U.S. swimmer Dana Vollmer’s outer cap fell off, showing another swimming cap underneath it.
Many Olympic-level and other competitive swimmers, including Michael Phelps, wea…

LONDON — U.S. beach volleyball stars Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor have a psychological effect on their opponents.
“We’re not strong enough in our heads [to know] it’s really possible and not be afraid,” said Kristyna Kolocova of Czech R…

LONDON — American sports fans have come to expect certain restrictions on adult beverage consumption at sporting events: two beers per purchase is typically the standard at places like Yankee Stadium, for example.
So it may have been a bit of culture…

As he recovers from the eye injury he sustained in the now-infamous Drake/Chris Brown nightclub brawl, French basketball star Tony Parker has worn not-very-cool-but-perfectly-functional sports goggles. It’s not the most fashion-forward look for a bask…

1. When Missy Franklin barely qualified for the finals of the 200-meter freestyle Monday evening, it seemed to suggest the U.S. teen phenom might not be in good enough form to contend in the 100-meter backstroke just 20 minutes later. Instead, Frankl…