AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Supreme Court To Decide Blockbuster Cases Soon
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
olympic games
Prosecutor: Greek Olympians Should Be Convicted in Doping Scandal
By Anthee Carassava - AOL NewsATHENS, Greece -- A prosecutor here called today for the conviction of two former Greek sprinters for staging a motorcycle accident and then lying about it to avoid a doping test at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou, both medalists at the 2000 games in Sydney, Australia, are accused of fabricating the mishap hours after failing to appear for scheduled drug tests at the Athens Olympic Village in August 2004. The drama that surrounded Greece's premier Olympians cast a pall over the games' opening ceremony. Kenteris, the surprise Olympic gold medalist in the ...
Maple Leaf Cool? Get Used to It, Please
By Michael McKinley - Politics DailyVANCOUVER – The Vancouver Winter Olympics ended with fireworks and festivity, the city and nation exuberant at its tally of gold medals, with the most glorious coming when Sid "The Kid" Crosby fulfilled Canada's fondest Olympic wish -- and national mythology -- by scoring in overtime against a dangerous and talented Team USA to win men's Olympic hockey gold on Canadian ice for the first time ever. The joyful heat of that moment and those Games still ripple through the March sunlight of this stunningly beautiful city, the cherry blossom trees a brilliant pink against the Pacific blue sky ...
Opinion: Time to Put Some Sport in the Winter Games
By Dave George - AOL News(Feb. 17) -- BREAKING NEWS: In a historic first, Tully Bascombe of the tiny European country of Grand Fenwick upset his favored rivals yesterday to take the gold medal in ice sculpting at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. It was a win not just for beleaguered Fenwickians, but for lovers everywhere of this majestic and storied Olympic sport. OK. Ice sculpting isn't an actual Olympic event and Grand Fenwick is a made-up country from a 1950s comedy. But that's beside the point. Many of you probably believed for a second that maybe ice sculpting really was in the Olympics -- and why shouldn't you? ...
Phelps' Vow to Kids Goes Up in Smoke
By Jay Mariotti - AOL NewsFor a few swigs, anyway, he tried to have a peaceful couple of beers with his U.S. swim teammates. But soon enough, inside this Budweiser-sponsored party tent in Beijing, word circulated that Michael Phelps not only was in the house but was roped off within a VIP area in THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM. ...
Blame the Nazis for These Torch Protests
By Johnny - AOL NewsMaybe like you, I go back and forth on what to make of these Olympics. Admittedly, it's fun to pile on China as the 2008 summer games approach, and more specifically, as the torch makes its way around the globe. There are a lot of truths about China that are coming to light that otherwise seem to have been ignored by the media and the public in general. And I think that's a good thing. But at the same time, I have the feeling that maybe politics and national interests should be left behind. Maybe the focus should rest squarely on the competition of the best athletes in the world at their ...
China Traipses Lightly on Human Rights
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyIn response to Beijing's hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, human rights groups have redoubled their efforts to pressure the communist regime into international parley. From its lofty perch as the world's most prolific jailer of political, journalistic and religious dissenters, to its continued enforcement of the infamous (forced sterilization, forced abortion and infanticidal) "one-child policy," China provides ample inspiration for human rights complaints. In light of this renewed scrutiny (accentuated by Steven Spielberg's resignation as artistic director due to China's role in Sudan), as ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- Romneys Love Fancy World of Rarefied Sport
- Rudy Giuliani: Mitt's Great. I'm Just Better
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- More Stories »
- A Veteran’s Journey To Hell And Back
- The 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
- Know Your Enemy
- Cannes’s Mischief Maker
- Cut It Out, Internet Bullies!
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics