2008 Summer Olympics

NECN/ABC) - Where else can you find 150 Olympic athletes, including superstar Michael Phelps? On the Oprah show, of course! The talk show host is taping the season premiere at Millenium Park, giving her hometown of Chicago a boost in its bid for the 2016 Olympics. The show will air Monday. Co...

Rio de Janeiro will be the site of the 2016 Olympic games. The city of Chicago lost out, despite a last-minute personal appearance by President Obama in Copenhagen Friday, along with Michele Obama and Oprah Winfrey. Guest host Jacki Lyden discusses the failed effort to bring the 2016 Olymp...

By Daniel Nasaw, Owen Gibson The International Olympic Committee made history by awarding the 2016 summer games to Rio de Janeiro, which will become the first South American city to host the event. Olympic Games 2016BrazilBarack ObamaUnited StatesDaniel NasawOwen Gibson

by Michael David SmithFiled under: Sports Business Rio de Janeiro has been chosen as the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics, beating Madrid in the final round of voting. Rio's bid will mark the first time the Olympics will take place in South America.

COPENHAGEN -- Through the halls of the Opera House, where only the security presence was heavier than the tension, a buzz circulated Thursday night that Chicago is the favorite to win the 2016 Olympics. You'd think the news would thrill a black-tie-only ballet crowd ranging from the firs...

By tarheeltalker I would dearly love to explain what she  said but I have very little clue as  to  what it means and even less as to what it has  to do with the Olympics. And, no telling what the President will say when  he buzzes in on Friday. He arrives on Friday and returns home  on Friday. Lotta  jet fuel being us...

By chicago2016supporters First Lady Michelle Obama has already shuttled over to Copenhagen to make a plea to the International Olympic Committee on behalf of her hometown. “We’ve got a lot of work to do. We’re not taking anything for granted, so I’m going to go talk to some voters,” the First Lady said in Denmark.

By chicago2016supporters As a founder of No Games Chicago, Mr. Quellos has worked for months to keep the Windy City Olympics free. Yet when the International Olympic Committee convenes in Copenhagen on Friday to choose the host city of the 2016 Olympics, Mr. Quellos and his group will be excluded.

By chicago2016supporters COPENHAGEN — As Michelle Obama walked through the lobby of the International Olympic Committee’s hotel Wednesday, she shook hands and exchanged greetings. Reedie knows. When the IOC awarded London the 2012 Olympics four years ago, then-Prime Minister Tony Blair was applauded for conn...

If you are anything like me, your TiVo spent a big chunk of August working overtime, recording every last minute of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Your sleep schedule was thrown all out of whack, your dinners stopped getting prepared and ...

By Guru CHICAGO (AP)—Thousands of spectators cheered Olympic medalists Michael Phelps, Dara Torres and Kobe Bryant on Wednesday as the city of Chicago got a high-profile boost to its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. ...

Seattle Post Intelligencer medalists Michael Phelps, Kobe Bryant and Nastia Liukin along with 150 other members of the United States Olympics team, The Associated Press reported. ... Fans wait for hours to score tickets to Winfrey's season premiere Chicago Tribune

Tomorrow, the U.S. Olympic Committee will announce which city will be its nominee to host the 2016 Olympics. Right now, there are two favorites: Los Angeles and Chicago. Because the world, you know, hates America and all that, whoever turns out to be the U.S. nominee is not expected to be the favo...