By Parke Brewer
Voice of America
BEIJING — Argentina has successfully defended its Olympic football (soccer) gold medal with a 1-0 victory over Nigeria.
Nearly 90,000 fans filled the National Stadium on a day where the heat was almost as big a story as the game. The kickoff was at noon local time, and under bright sunshine, the [...]

By Jim Stevenson
Voice of America
BEIJING — Saturday’s schedule at the Beijing Olympics is the second busiest of the games. With 32 medal events, the pace is stepping up to bring the Olympics to a conclusion.
Baseball, men’s football and field hockey, women’s basketball, women’s volleyball and team handball bring several high profile tournaments to a golden [...]

By Jim Stevenson
Voice of America
BEIJING — Argentina has successfully defended its men’s Olympic football (soccer) title with a 1-0 victory over Nigeria.
Bright sunshine and clear blue skies greeted almost 90,000 spectators inside the Bird’s Nest Saturday as the South American team claimed its second consecutive Olympic gold medal. Argentina’s coach, Sergio Batista, says through an [...]

By Jim Stevenson
Voice of America
BEIJING — Doping cases at the Beijing Olympics have been far fewer compared to recent games. As of Friday, just five athletes had tested positive for banned substances.
Heptathlon silver medalist Lyudmila Blonska of Ukraine is the latest Olympic athlete to test positive. As a result, she has been stripped of a [...]

Voice of America
BEIJING — Events inside China’s National Stadium dominate the medal opportunities Friday at the Beijing Olympics.
Seven of the day’s 21 medal events will come inside the so-called Birds Nest, Beijing’s iconic stadium that also held the colorful Opening Ceremonies, and will be where the games close on Sunday. Before then, medals will be [...]

By Parke Brewer
Voice of America
BEIJING — The U.S. women’s soccer team successfully defended its Olympic gold medal Thursday night at Beijing Workers’ Stadium.
The United States and Brazil also met in the gold medal game at the 2004 Athens Olympics and the result was the same – a U.S. victory by a one goal margin in [...]

By Jim Stevenson
Voice of America
BEIJING — The United States has scored impressive wins at the Beijing Olympics, including the return of the women’s football (soccer) team to the pinnacle of international competition.
Carli Lloyd scored the only goal Thursday to give the United States the gold medal in women’s football. Following a scoreless game during regulation [...]

By Scott Bobb
Voice of America
BEIJING — The Olympic Games are coming to a close in Beijing, with hundreds of medals awarded and dozens of world records broken. While sports experts tally the statistics, political analysts are studying the legacy of the Games for China and its people.
The opening ceremonies dazzled, as did the innovative stadium [...]

By Jim Stevenson
Voice of America
BEIJING — A Jamaican sprinter has taken a very short time to rewrite two cherished world records on the track.
Several Olympic reporters have debated how to pronounce Bolt’s first name. It is Usain by the way. But the world’s fastest man prefers a better name.
“I am Lightning Bolt. I am not [...]

By Jim Stevenson
Voice of America
BEIJING — The big push begins Thursday for the conclusion of the Olympic Games in Beijing. A total of 23 medals are to be awarded as four days of competition remain.
Wrestling wraps up its long run at the Beijing Games with three final events. Medals will go out in the men’s [...]