2012 Olympics News Today

Gabby Douglas, who was the first Black gymnast to win the Olympic all-around gold medal when she earned the top prize in London in 2012, is ready to try for another one.

Oscar Pistorius' life story from before and after Valentine's Day 2013 reads like the script to two markedly different films — the first an inspirational sporting biopic and the second a grim tale of murder.

Olympic cyclist Rohan Dennis has reportedly been charged with the death of his wife, fellow cyclist Melissa Hoskins, after he allegedly struck her with a car.

The UK government tried to help Greece secure the Parthenon Marbles on loan two decades ago in a bid to drum up support for London's 2012 Olympics' bid, according to files released Friday.Britain nonetheless succeeded in securing the 2012 Olympics, but two decades on, it remains at loggerheads with Athens over the Parthenon Marbles. jj/pdh/srg/ach 

Japan won the World Cup in 2011 playing a free-flowing style that made them the envy of women's football, but they have fallen behind since then, sparking accusations of mismanagement and neglect.- Women's football in Japan enjoyed a spike in popularity after the 2011 World Cup, but interest gradually tailed off and attendances at the semi-professional Nadeshiko League dwindled.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo also called on the IOC to ban Russian athletes from the games.

Russian athlete Natalya Antyukh has been stripped of her 400-meter hurdles gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics for doping under a ruling issued on October 24 by track and field's Athletics Integrity Unit.

Toni Minichiello, who guided Britain's Jessica Ennis-Hill to the heptathlon gold at the 2012 Olympics, has been banned for life after a disciplinary panel appointed by the UK Athletics (UKA) Board found him to have engaged in sexually inappropriate behaviour. Minichiello was provisionally suspended last year pending an investigation into complaints from female athletes.

More than two dozen UC Berkeley student athletes, former athletes and parents have...

The organisers would like this to be viewed as a principled decision, but it risks looking more like a hollow display