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Visa is conducting an integrated campaign for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver to urge consumers to use the company's credit cards while traveling there. The effort builds on Visa's effort for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, which used the tagline, "Go World."
Wearing an old-style swimsuit, Michael Phelps missed out on two finals and barely qualified for a third Tuesday at a World Cup short-course meet. Phelps, who won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, failed to qualify for the finals of the 100-meter freestyle and 100 backstroke. He qualified in the 100 medley, finishing seventh in 53.13 seconds -- more than half a second ...
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva are the leading contenders for the IAAF athlete of the year awards. Bolt set three world records last year at the Beijing Olympics and broke two of those marks -- in the 100 and 200 meters -- in August at the world championships in Berlin.
A charitable foundation is donating $3 million to help keep the U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters in Colorado Springs.
The global hotel business is slumping, but that has not kept the industry from betting on Asia. Hardly a week goes by in the region without a hotel opening or announcement of expansion plans.
Wearing an old-style swimsuit, Michael Phelps missed out on two finals and barely qualified for a third Tuesday at a World Cup short-course meet.
A charitable foundation is donating $3 million to help keep the U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters in Colorado Springs. The El Pomar Foundation, one of Colorado's largest charities, announced Monday it was donating the money to help Colorado Springs satisfy a $13 million requirement in the first phase of a $53 million project.
The U.S. Olympic Committee has signed a sponsorship deal that makes DISC Sports and Spine Center its official medical services provider through the 2012 Olympics. The deal, announced Monday, will allow the USOC to partner with DISC to develop a sports medicine program for Olympic athletes. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.
Michael Phelps failed to qualify for the finals of the 100-meter freestyle and 100 backstroke events at a World Cup short-course meet while wearing an old-style swimsuit.
Swimming legend Michael Phelps failed to make it past the 100 metres freestyle heats when he returned to action in the Stockholm leg of the short-course World Cup on Tuesday.
CORPUS CHRISTI — He won’t hit his 17th birthday until Nov. 19, but Jeremy Longoria is continuing his pace for reaching an Olympic dream. The latest step came early last month in Houston, where Longoria was among 100 young fighters participating in the Texas Elite Amateur Showcase. At the invitation-only event sponsored by Undefeated Magazine, Longoria scored a 4-1 decision over Houston’s O ...
FAA Notice Number: NOTC2003 The 2010 Winter Olympic & Paralympic Games will be held during the period January 29, 2010 through March 24, 2010. Security associated with the Olympic Games includes some very restricted airspace in Canada and a US Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) that extends into northwestern Washington State.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The U.S. Olympic Committee has signed a sponsorship deal that makes DISC Sports and Spine Center its official medical services provider through the 2012 Olympics.
This partnership is to bring the next generation of sports medicine to U.S. Olympic and paralympic athletes.
We are under 100 days and counting until the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. The quadrennial running of the Olympic
The Olympic flame began its first trek through the Canadian Arctic by crossing paths with a polar bear on the shores of Hudson Bay, local media said Monday.
Preparations for hosting the World Cup and 2016 Games will face municipal and bureaucratic challenges.
Michael Phelps plans to wear the old-style swimsuit that will become the standard next year at the upcoming European World Cup meet in Stockholm. The Olympic star will swim the 100-meter freestyle and backstroke plus the individual medley on Tuesday. He will... FIFA World Cup - Olympic Games - Stockholm - sport - World Cup
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Michael Phelps says he's "not in the best shape" for the European World Cup meet in Stockholm.
LONDON (AP) -- World Cup organizer Danny Jordaan said Monday there was never an emergency plan to move the 2010 tournament if South Africa was not ready.
A new guide to Vancouver is just out from Lonely Planet's pocket-sized Encounter series.
