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USA Gymnastics officials said a visa mix-up may mean that the alternates for the women’s team will have to train in Japan, three hours away by plane. 
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Five Olympians have come to New York City, always a hotbed of fencing, to train for Beijing with Yury Gelman at the Manhattan Fencing Club. 
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Contrary to popular belief, inhaled asthma drugs do not enhance the performance of athletes who do not have asthma. 
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Inhalers, like the one used by the triathlete Emma Snowsill, are increasingly becoming just another piece of exercise equipment for elite endurance athletes. 
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Robbie Rogers, the 21-year-old attacking midfielder for the Columbus Crew, is one of 18 players that will represent the United States at the Olympics next month. 
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93-year-old former Olympic swimmer Mary Lou Skok still marvels at the front-row seat she has had for the 1936 Games in Berlin. 
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USA Gymnastics officials decided to allow Paul Hamm to retain his spot on the six-man Olympic team about two months after breaking a bone in his right hand. 
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Officials in Jamaica, a country known for producing sprinting champions, said they should be doing more to ensure that their premier sport was clean. 
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Shayla Worley, a member of last year’s gold-medal- winning team at the world championships, has broken her right leg, just weeks before the Olympic Games. 
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After a year of controversy, legal battles and frantic effort, Oscar Pistorius was left off the South African 4x400 Olympic relay team and will not be going to Beijing. 
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Foreign entertainers who have taken part in activities that China deems a threat to its sovereignty will not be allowed to perform in the country. 
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Hong Kong, the host to all six Olympic equestrian events, is promising a more relaxed approach than Beijing to security. 
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The United States women’s soccer team suffered a potentially devastating blow when its top player, forward Abby Wambach, sustained a serious leg injury. 
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USA Gymnastics announced that the gymnast Morgan Hamm, twin of Olympic champion Paul Hamm, was still on the team despite his positive test for a banned drug. 
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Efforts to clean up large amounts of green algae from the coastal city of Qingdao were successful, an official said. 
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