Cuban taekwondo athlete Angel Matos and coach Leudis Gonzalez have been banned for life after Matos executed a perfect roundhouse kick to the face of the bronze-medal match referee who disqualified him.
Casting a light where the sun don’t shine
Cuban taekwondo athlete Angel Matos and coach Leudis Gonzalez have been banned for life after Matos executed a perfect roundhouse kick to the face of the bronze-medal match referee who disqualified him.
Ukrainian heptathlete Lyudmila Blonska was stripped of her Beijing silver medal Friday after testing positive for the steroid methyltestosterone.
Both the primary and secondary samples, taken after her second-place heptathlon finish on Saturday, returned positive results. Blonska, who was suspended from 2003-05 after testing positive for the steroid stanozolol, faces a lifetime ban for the [...]
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge criticized Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt on Thursday for what he believes was a lack of respect for other competitors during and after Bolt’s record-breaking gold medal performances. When asked about China’s hosting of the games moments later, however, he could only sing the host country’s praises.
The International Olympic Committee said Friday that it has asked gymnastics officials to investigate whether the Chinese women’s gymnastics team that won gold in Beijing included underage athletes.
An investigation was triggered when a computer analyst from the U.S. claimed to have discovered Chinese government documents proving one of the Chinese gymnasts, He Kexin, was only [...]
The Brits know hot to celebrate gold
Double gold winner Bradley Wiggins had to charm his way out of trouble after the drunken cyclist rolled over the hood of a Chinese taxi driver’s car on Tuesday night. All was forgiven after Wiggins posed for a couple of photos with the taxi driver and his gold [...]
Two elderly Chinese women who submitted an application to hold a protest during the Beijing Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp. The women were still at home after being officially notified of their one-year reeducation through labor, but remain under the surveillance of a government-backed neighborhood group.
In the weeks after the magnificent Beijing Games opening ceremonies, the lengths to which Chinese officials and ceremonies director Zhang Yimou went to produce the nearly flawless performance have slowly been surfacing.
Less than a week after Spanish basketball and tennis teams drew criticism for photographs in which players used their fingers to pull their eyes tighter in an attempt to look more Chinese, a photograph showing members of the Argentine women’s soccer team in a similar pose has found its way onto the Internet.
Light heavyweight boxer Dzhakhon Kurbanov of Tajikistan was disqualified from an Olympic quarterfinal bout Tuesday night for biting Kazakhstan opponent Yerkebulah Shynaliyev.
The bite came as the two boxers clinched in the final seconds of the third round. Kurbanov, who trailed 12-6 at the time, had already been warned multiple times for shoving and holding [...]
The U.N. Security Council is reportedly on standby after the Olympic matchup between the United States’ and China’s baseball teams moved us one step closer to the end of the world.