In the end, what matters is that the U.S. women's soccer team is going to the Olympics. What the players won't soon forget is how hard they had to work get there.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Michael Phelps. Missy Franklin. Jordyn Wieber. Ryan Lochte.

MELBOURNE, Australia - After taking three of the four majors and gaining the No. 1 ranking last season, Novak Djokovic is going for prizes beyond Grand Slams in 2012.

LONDON - When Big Ben struck 12 to ring in the New Year, no one will feel the level of anticipation - and pressure - more than organizers of the London Olympics. With the arrival of 2012, the ...

Qatar is looking to send women to the Olympics for the first time.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says preparations for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi and other international events being hosted by Russia are being carried out to the highest standards.

Britain's men's gymnastics team must go through another round of qualfying for the 2012 Olympics in London.

Former Lakeside High and UGA shot putter Reese Hoffa finishes fifth in the World Track & Field Championships in South Korea.

Locked in a dispute over millions of dollars, the U.S. Olympic Committee pulled the plug on a bid for the 2020 Summer Games.

LONDON --- After days of silence while images of fires, looting and riots were beamed across screens around the world, the chief organizer of the London Olympics said the state of the games is fine.

IOC officials arriving to review progresson the 2012 Games were greeted by a forbidding landscape a short way from where the Olympics will unfold.

Olympic security officials said Monday that testing is under way for the mammoth task of making the 2012 London Games safe.

Rising Lakeside senior Katherine Huff and fellow Aiken-Augusta Swim League member Steven Kekacs, a rising senior at Aiken High, see the 2016 Games as a more likely goal than 2012.

LONDON - IOC President Jacques Rogge is confident that police intelligence work will help avert any attack on the London Olympics similar to the bombing and shooting massacre in Norway.

DURBAN, South Africa --- Persistence paid off for the South Korean city of Pyeongchang. After a decade of trying and two defeats, it won the right to host the 2018 Winter Games.

DURBAN, South Africa --- The three cities vying for the 2018 Winter Olympics lobbied for votes Tuesday in what shapes up as a choice between South Korea and Germany.

DURBAN, South Africa --- The three candidates to play host to the 2018 Winter Olympics began three final days of frantic campaigning Monday.

EUGENE, Ore. --- Allyson Felix glided smoothly around the track during the 400 meter event. The big question: Will she run it at the world championships later this summer?