Olympics

Olympic champions Rulon Gardner and Henry Cejudo and others made their pitch at an event that celebrated the sport's place on the world scene.

USA Wrestling has formalized plans for a committee charged with restoring Olympic wrestling. The organization announced Monday that the group will be known as the Committee for the Preservation of Olympic Wrestling. As noted by USA Wrestling executive director Rich Bender last week, the committee will be chaired by former world champion Bill Scherr...

In another setback for one of the world’s most decorated wrestlers, Olympic gold medalist Rulon Gardner has filed for bankruptcy.

A Fort Collins resident won a medal at the London Olympics on Saturday. Georgia Gould won a Bronze medal in the Mountain Bike Cycling women’s race at Hadleigh Farm in Essex, England.

With the Olympics in full swing, team USA has been doing very well in many events. Men’s basketball is one event in which the United States traditionally does well.

Wyoming had two athletes at the Olympics in Britain. Despite valliant efforts on both their parts, neither one medaled in their respective events.

The Olympics are about to begin in London. Sure, it’s a great gathering of the world’s most amazing athletes doing their thing, where competitors try to smash records quicker than you can say Zemfira Meftakhetdinova (seriously, that’s a real person going for the gold).

Swimmer Ryan Lochte is the first American to strike gold at the 2012 London Olympics. Lochte took the top spot in the Men’s 400-meter individual medley. Fellow American Michael Phelps finished a surprising fourth. Lochte defeated Phelps in the same event at the US Olympic Trials last month in Omaha.