Olympic Updates

BEIJING - Roger Federer's bid for his first Olympic singles medal has ended with a loss to American James Blake. With the sort of lackluster performance that was once unthinkable for Federer, he was eliminated in the quarterfinals on Thursday night. Meanwhile, Serena and Venus Williams both lost as well.

BEIJING - Michael Phelps has qualified second-fastest for the 100-meter butterfly semifinals, minutes after winning his sixth gold medal of the Beijing Olympics.

BEIJING - Rebecca Soni of the United States has won a gold medal in the women's 200-meter breaststroke at the Beijing Olympics, beating world record-holder Leisel Jones and erasing the Aussie's world-best time.

BEIJING - A two-time North Korean medalist in shooting and a Vietnamese gymnast have failed doping tests at the Olympics.

BEIJING - Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay have advanced out of their first heats in the Olympic 100-meter dash.

BEIJING - The U.S. Olympic team stopped the pick-and-rolls — and just about everything else Greece tried.

BEIJING - Britta Steffen of Germany has won the 100-meter freestyle at the Beijing Olympics, holding off world record-holder Libby Trickett of Australia.

DALLAS - Chalk up another remarkable feat for Michael Phelps: somehow making swimming trading cards popular.

BEIJING - Yang Wei clapped as he walked past the vault judges, pumped his fists at the crowd and flashed a thumbs-up for the cameras.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Michael Phelps scorched to his sixth gold and his sixth world record of the Beijing Olympics on Friday, one of three wins in the Water Cube for the United States.

BEIJING (Reuters) - American Michael Phelps won his sixth gold medal and set his sixth world record at the Beijing Olympics on Friday with a devastating victory in the men's 200 meters individual medley.

BEIJING - North Korean shooter Kim Jong Su and Vietnamese gymnast Thi Ngan Thuong Do fail doping tests at the Beijing Olympics.

BEIJING, (AFP) - Spain's Olympic basketball team will apologize for making an advertisement where players posed with slit-eye gestures in a move the International Olympic Committee deemed inappropriate.

BEIJING - Ryan Lochte has upset defending champion Aaron Peirsol in the 200-meter backstroke at the Beijing Olympics, winning in a world-record time and dashing his teammate's hopes of completing a backstroke sweep for the second consecutive games.

BEIJING, (AFP) - The three fastest men in history, world record holder Usain Bolt, reigning double world champion Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell, all cruised through their Olympic 100m heats here on Friday.

KINGSTON (Reuters) - Jamaicans are split down the middle over which of their world-class sprinters stands the best chance of winning the men's 100 meters at the Olympic Games in Beijing.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Michael Phelps scorched to his sixth gold and his sixth world record of the Beijing Olympics on Friday, one of three wins in the Water Cube for the United States.

BEIJING - Michael Phelps won his sixth gold medal of the Beijing Olympics on Friday in record time, defeating rivals Laszlo Cseh and teammate Ryan Lochte in the 200-meter individual medley.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Ryan Lochte of the United States won the gold medal in the men's 200 meters backstroke on Friday with a new world record time of one minute, 53.94.

BEIJING - Foreign activists scaled a landmark building in Beijing on Friday to unfurl a "Free Tibet" banner over the top of an Olympic Games billboard, in the latest unauthorized protest during the games.

BEIJING (Reuters) - American Rebecca Soni broke the world record to win the women's 200 meters breaststroke final on Friday to collect her first gold medal of the Beijing Olympics.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Rebecca Soni of the U.S. won the Olympic gold medal in the women's 200m breaststroke on Friday.

BEIJING - Athens gold medalists Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor overcame five set points in the first set to beat Belgium 24-22, 21-10 and advance to the quarterfinals of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament.