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The government is taking a step to shore up the reputation of that most dubious of national sports icons: the men’s soccer team.

Bloggers have uncovered government documents suggesting that Chinese gymnasts did not meet the minimum age requirements.

The star athletes who competed in the Olympic Games are making their bids to cash in on this country’s boom in sports marketing and sponsorship deals.

It is any outsider’s guess what happens next in China after a successful Olympics. We, like the Chinese proletariat, will have to wait, hope and see.

To reassert its global pre-eminence, the United States men’s basketball team did everything but rewrite the rules and restripe the courts. That last part is coming, though.

China finished with 51 gold medals, the highest figure for any nation at an Olympics in 20 years, and it won them across a wider range of sports than any team in Beijing.

Will the Olympics’ success lead China to domestic reforms or convince leaders that their current model is working?

One of China’s top sports officials said Sunday that a simple paperwork error was to blame for an age controversy involving the Chinese women’s gymnastics team.

Getting U.S. stars like Michael Phelps to perform live in prime time was just one of the moves that set up the spectacular success NBC achieved in the Beijing Games.

For London, the trap is to avoid being accused of wasting money on a short-lived event, while not being seen as skimping on the Olympic Games.