They have won the contest, secured the medal. So the drama is all over, right? Not so fast.
From tantrums to tears, action on the Olympics podiums in China has often matched that off it, keeping spectators at medal ceremonies riveted long after the (...)
Next Olympics host Britain reached its highest gold medal tally in a century on Tuesday with four victories including one from a once-banned runner.
Christine Ohuruogu, who only made it to Beijing after winning an appeal against a lifetime Olympics (...)
A handsome but anonymous guardian of the Olympics torch on its troubled world tour has won legions of Chinese female fans – and plenty of marriage proposals.
Known only as “Second Brother on the Right” because of his customary position by the (...)
In Kenya, they name babies after him. Global TV networks camp outside his grandmother's rural home.
In Uganda, a town has renamed a street “Obama Boulevard”.
And in Nigeria, militants even called a brief ceasefire in praise of the US Democratic (...)
