San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobli scored 24 points and former Toronto Raptor Carlos Delfino added 23 to propel defending Olympic champion Argentina into the Olympic basketball semifinals with an 80-78 win over Greece on Wednesday. More »
Result of a men's basketball quarter-final match at the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday: More »
Jamaican Usain Bolt streaked to the 200m gold in world record time Wednesday to complete the sprint double for the first time in 24 years at the Olympic Games and then loudly declared himself "Number One". More »
Team USA powered its way closer to Beijing Olympics gold Wednesday dispatching Australia 116-85 in a quarter-final match behind the attacking play of NBA superstars Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. More »
Usain Bolt of Jamaica won the men's 200 metres gold medal at the Olympics on Wednesday to complete the sprint double in a new world record time of 19.30 seconds. More »
BEIJING (Reuters) - Jamaica's Usain Bolt won the Olympic gold medal in the men's 200 metres on Wednesday, breaking the world record in a time of 19.30 seconds. More »
Jamaican Usain Bolt broke the men's 200 metres world record here on Wednesday timing 19.30 seconds as he clinched the Olympic Games gold to add to his 100m crown. More »
Crystl Bustos hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning as the U.S. Olympic softball team beat Japan 4-1 in extra innings and will play for its fourth straight gold medal. More »
James Degale beat former Olympic champion Bakhtiyar Artayev of Kazakhstan 8-3 in a quarterfinal bout Wednesday to clinch Britain's third medal, while Vijender Kumar earned the first boxing medal in India's history. More »

Stunning Bolt sets 200m world record at Olympics

