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There was less buzz on the Beijing streets for tonight's closing ceremony than there was for the Opening Ceremony 16 days ago. Crowds that filled the police-lined streets close to the Bird's Nest then were largely absent tonight, although several corners still were packed.

The closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Games, replete with spectacle, pageantry and parades. An on-the-scene account ...

When it comes to the medal count, Americans are on the defensive while China has overachieved. But you won't find the Chinese gloating. Still, China's success means more to this nation, than it does to America.

China's goal coming into the Beijing Games was clear: win the race for most gold medals. With a dominant victory in hand, China now faces questions about how to spread the its athletic success across the nation.

Hosting the Olympics has ushered in substantial change across Chinese society, while the nation's gold medal haul has replaced Liu Xiang as the memory of choice from the 2008 Games.

As the women continue to roll through the competition, Mike gets a chance to ask Rebecca Lobo five questions about her basketball life.

Things went perfectly - as expected - as the U.S. Women's basketball team was just too deep, too quick and too good for Australia in the gold medal match.   Find out how Lisa Leslie got her 33rd Olympic win...in a row.

The men's Olympic Marathon on Sunday morning Beijing time promises to be the best ever.

Beating out Italy by .004 of a second, Inna Osypenko-Radomska of Ukraine has won the women's K-1 500m. Italy's Josefa Idem won silver and Germany's Katrin Wagner-Augustin secured the bronze.

With Canada's Adam van Koeverden and Great Britain's Tim Brabants on his tail, Australian paddler Ken Wallace has won the gold medal in the men's K-1 500m.

There are only a few days left of the Games and I am making the best of it.

Okay so the Olympics have brought about a few new developments.

I have studied the Serbian shooters for countless hours and it paid off. Now we will play Hungary on Sunday for the gold medal.

On December 9, 2000, at the fantasy world that Walt Disney created in Orlando, Florida, the U.S.caught the first clear glimpse of its distance-running future, at least on the men's side.

When Alan Paul came to watch China's Zou Shiming fight for a shot at the gold, he expected pandemonium in the crowd. What he didn't expect is that it would come from the Mongolians.

Belarus wins another gold in paddling, this time in the men's K-4 1000m.  Slovakia gets the silver and Germany takes home the bronze.

Adding a gold medal to the bronze he won four years ago in Athens, Attila Sandor Vajda of Hungary came in first in the C-1 1000m.