The challenge will now be to keep up with the Chinese
BEIJING, Aug. 25 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Peter Ueberroth has done the math and it is daunting.
It tells him his China problem is only going to get bigger; that the Summer Games of Beijing were more of a clue than a culmination; that the host nation's ravenous appetite for raw materials applies to gold, silver and bronze as it does to oil and natural gas.
More Tim Sullivan Columns
BEIJING, Aug. 24 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Leslie still living Olympic dream: You could hear her coming from the clinking. Lisa Leslie moved about the Olympic Basketball Gymnasium with four gold medals jangling gently around her neck. She sounded like a set of wind chimes in a soft breeze.
Aug. 23 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Redeem Team puts dysfunction to rest: BEIJING – There is no time like the present for USA basketball, and this is no team like the past.
Aug. 22 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Taking a bow and bowing out: BEIJING – Mike Candrea must take us to be morons. He must think we all fell off a turnip truck, through a rabbit hole, into a delusion. The head coach of USA softball must think proclaiming parity can make it so.
Aug. 21 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Sprinter earns second gold without any fooling around: BEIJING – He ran for the finish as if his feet were on fire, his stride full of purpose, his eyes on the clock.
Aug. 20 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Cejudo realizes American Dream: BEIJING – The American Dream has a cauliflower ear. It wears a welt above its right eye and, until further notice, a gold medal around its stiff neck.
BEIJING, Aug. 19 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Mourning glory: It was nearly noon, but Zheng Chen was still sleeping. She had dozed through the morning's drama to be awakened by a text message alert on her cell phone.
BEIJING, Aug. 18 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Distracted boxers hit rock bottom for United States: What USA Boxing needs is more medaling and less meddling. Personal coaches retain too much influence, national coach Dan Campbell said yesterday, and that continuing conflict has created a mutinous climate and contributed to what is now sure to be America's worst Olympic boxing showing in at least 60 years.
BEIJING, Aug. 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Phelps greatest Olympian of all?: Michael Phelps might be the best thing to happen to water since fluoridation. He has won more gold medals in swimming than any athlete has ever won in any Olympic sport.
BEIJING, Aug. 16 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Gold was in hand only at final touch: The race is not always to the swiftest. Sometimes, it goes to the guy most in need of a manicure.
BEIJING, Aug. 15 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Blake's big shocker over Federer caught everyone by surprise: The first clue came from Serbia. I was sitting in the Main Press Center, monitoring a basketball game and contemplating a haircut, when the boys from Belgrade grew oddly animated.
BEIJING, Aug. 14 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Stepping it up a notch: Stephen Strasburg's first pitch was clocked at 151 kilometers. That's 93 miles per hour for the metric-challenged.
BEIJING, Aug. 13 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Phelps in gold-medal league of own: Your mission, Michael Phelps, and you have no choice but to accept it, is immortality. It arrived yesterday in the form of career gold medals Nos. 10 and 11, which is more than any previous Olympian and three fewer than Phelps might own before lunch on Sunday.
BEIJING, Aug. 12 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Gay can't believe U.S. stars think he's one of them: Tyson Gay is the world's fastest shrinking violet. He is an elite sprinter with an ego the size of a cinder, the American record holder at 100 meters and modesty.
Aug. 11 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Ex-UCSD coach helping team cope with loss: Ron Larsen would rather be the suggestion box. He would rather be the nagging idea man than the last word in USA volleyball.
JUYONGGUAN, China, Aug. 10 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Heat, humidity and smog are great walls of China: Gao Xin has been planning a San Diego honeymoon. All she needs now is a husband. At the moment, however, the 21-year-old Olympic volunteer is not permitted to leave her post. She is under orders to stand beneath the Beijing 2008 umbrella by the top of the stairs on the observation deck of The Great Wall of China.
BEIJING, Aug. 9 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Dazzling opener shows China's serious: Chalk it up to good, old Yangtze ingenuity. To technical precision and limitless manpower. Mark it down as the most spectacular Opening Ceremonies ever staged at the most ambitious Olympic Games ever conceived.
