Archery – Women team eventGOLD_South Korea; SILVER_ Ling China; BRONZE_France.Cycling – Women Road Race ...

On Sunday 9 August 1998, the first edition of Kick Off went on air and the guests for the first programme where Joseph Portelli and Captain George Kissaun. The first programme was presented by Nadia Baldachino and Rebecca Camillleri....

Chinese athletes won two gold medals yesterday on a first day of Olympic competition marred by the stabbing death of an American volleyball coach's relative and two doping controversies. ...

With President Bush looking on, the United States women's basketball team began its quest for a fourth-straight gold medal with a rout of the Czech Republic. ...

A knife-wielding Chinese man attacked two relatives of a coach for the US Olympic men's volleyball team at a tourist site in Beijing, killing one and injuring the other on the first day of the Olympics Yesterday, team officials and state media said. ...

Most days, being the US president means trying to extinguish one blooming crisis after another. Then there are days like yesterday. ...

Yao Ming will get his first taste of the Beijing Olympics today in the toughest possible situation - against the US men's basketball team. ...

Samuel Sanchez of Spain took the gold medal in the Olympic cycling men's road race yesterday, winning a sprint finish of six riders at the end of a gruelling course. ...

Michael Phelps opened his quest to win eight gold medals by qualifying 1.44 seconds faster than his rivals with an Olympic-record time in the 400-metre individual medley preliminaries yesterrday night. ...

Defending champions United States edged Japan 1-0 to revive its chances of a third Olympic gold medal in women’s football yesterday, and World Cup champions Germany beat Nigeria 1-0 to move closer to a title it has never won. ...