Home -> Olympics -> Breaking News

• The Aussie party continues, Games get over

  Sydney: The Games are over, and the party's begun. Well the party's been on for quite sometime. Almost from the day, millions of Australians gathered to see the live telecast of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announcement handing them the Games of 2000 seven years ago.

• Samaranch closes 'best ever' Olympic Games

  Sydney: IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch closed the Sydney Olympics on Sunday, declaring it ''the best Olympic Games ever''.

• Abera wins men's marathon for Ethiopia

  Sydney: Ethiopian Gezahgne Abera won the men's Olympic marathon on Sunday as African runners swept the medals.

• US under fire for two nandrolone cases

  Sydney: US athletics chiefs handled two positive tests for nandrolone, the steroid at the centre of the C J Hunter scandal, in the last two years but handed out no sanctions, a leading anti-doping chief revealed on Sunday.

• US cagers survive late scare to win gold

  Sydney: The US men's basketball team clinched their third consecutive Olympic gold medal on Sunday, but only after a tougher-than-expected 85-75 victory over France who with four minutes left trailed by only four points.

• Thai boxer wins second-ever gold for his country

  Sydney: Thailand's Wijan Ponlid outslugged Kazakhstan's world flyweight boxing champion to claim only his country's second-ever Olympic gold on the final day of the Sydney Games on Sunday.

• Doping: Armenian weightlifter stripped of bronze

  Sydney: An Armenian and Norwegian athlete have tested positive for drugs, taking the number of Olympic athletes caught taking banned substances in competition in Sydney to seven, an IOC medical commission official said on Sunday.

• Raducan gets heroine's welcome in Romania

  Bucharest: Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan was feted as a heroine with flowers, flags and a brass band when she returned home on Saturday after losing her gold medal at the Sydney Olympics because of a failed drug test.

• Cuba 'robbed' of Olympic medals: Castro

  Havana: Cuba's President Fidel Castro denounced what he called "a disgusting mafia" among international boxing judges which he said had "robbed" some Cuban boxers of medals at the Sydney Olympics.

• US men, women win 4 x 400m gold medals

  Sydney: Michael Johnson won his second gold of the Sydney Olympics on Saturday as he anchored the United States to the 4x400 metres relay title.

• Netherlands win back-to-back hockey gold

  Sydney: Luck Favoured Holland again as they stroked out spirited Korea 8-7 in penalty shootout to retain the Olympic hockey gold medal on Saturday.