Commonwealth Games

For 16-year-old Adithya Balasubramanian, the cliche didn't apply. When he was 13, he finished second. At 14, he didn't even have a prize finish, and at 15, he finished third. It was the fourth time that was the charm. The Tabb High School senior won...

Kathy Bergen is reporting from Beijing on developments related to Chicago's 2016 bid. BEIJING — Viewed through the eyes of a first-time Olympics visitor, the athletes' village built for these Summer Games appears to be nothing special,...

Geno Auriemma's search for talent never ends, especially in the post, where it's always welcomed. And he's willing to go a long way to find it. The UConn women's basketball program added Jessica McCormack of Auckland, New Zealand, Friday when she...

Signatories to the World Anti-Doping Code include the Olympic movement and 78 international sports governing bodies. Here is a partial list of athletic events subject to the code's regulations, along with some notable exceptions. Covered by WADA rules...

First of two parts Click for part two The worldwide sports anti-doping program, created to fight performance-enhancing drug use in international athletics, imposes severe punishments for accidental or technical infractions, relies at times on disputed...

SwimmingPhelps sets U.S. mark in 400 IM at Cup meet Michael Phelps set an American record in winning the 400-meter individual medley and followed that with a win in the 100 individual medley in the FINA World Cup in East Meadow, N.Y., getting off to a...

Nick Willis and Alistair Cragg are friends. They are rivals. They are comfortable racing against each other. In the past, they've met on the track. Both ran in the 2004 Olympics, although not against each other. But until Thursday, neither had run a road...

Kuala Lumpur came into being in the late 1860s when a band of prospectors in search of tin landed at the meeting point of the Kelang and Gombak rivers and imaginatively named the place Kuala Lumpur - 'Muddy Confluence'. More than half of those first...

In tabulating the final tally for the Medals Per Capita rating that so beats the daylights out of the generic, standard, thoughtless, tyrannical, useless, weak Medals Table, some astonishments did reveal themselves. For one thing, two countries, Colombia...