For the casual Olympics fan, TV coverage of popular sports like diving and track and field is broadcast often enough. But what about the handball fans? The judo followers? The people who are crazy ...

The Games kicked off with a Shakespeare reading, pastoral scenes and the queen. July 27, 2012 — -- London's Olympic Stadium became a vast meadow in an opening ceremony that at first evoked the ...

An online petition seeking a new logo already has more than 30,000 signatures. June 5, 2007 — -- Unveiled with aplomb Monday in North London to an audience of more than 700 Olympic stakeholders ...

Rafael Nadal, the 2008 men's singles tennis gold medalist, has officially withdrawn himself from participation in the 2012 London Olympics. The 26-year-old 11-time grand slam tournament winner ...

A row has broken out over plans to rip up tennis courts built for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics and replace them with padel courts. The radical revamp of the venue that hosted wheelchair tennis at ...

American Shannon Rowbury is now the 2012 Olympic 1500m bronze medalist, moving up from fourth place after silver medalist Tatyana Tomashova of Russia was retroactively disqualified in a doping case ...

More than 12 years after the 2012 London Olympics, United States 1,500-meter runner Shannon Rowbury is set to get a bronze medal because of yet another doping case in a notoriously dirty race. Russian ...

What do you remember most about the London 2012 Olympics? Is it that the British could still organise an international event involving 204 countries from Algeria to Zimbabwe, competing in 39 ...

22 August 2015; Tatyana Tomashova of Russia competes during Round 1 of the Women’s 1500m event. IAAF World Athletics Championships Beijing 2015 - Day 1, National Stadium, Beijing, China. Picture ...