LONDON, July 25 (Reuters) – Dragged from a raging fire that
killed six other horses, Otis Barbotiere and Neville Bardos
could reward the man who risked his life to save them when they
compete at the London Olympics next week.

Boyd Martin said he did what anyone would have done by
racing into an inferno but his bravery could pay dividends if
one of the horses he saved on a chaotic night in May 2011 can
carry him to a gold medal for the United States in the
equestrian three-day eventing.

LONDON (Reuters) – The United States may routinely issue forecasts for the number of jobs being created or home sales but there will be no bold predictions about the number of medals American athletes might win at the London Olympics.

The U.S. has led the overall medal count at the Summer Games dating back to the 1996 Atlanta Games, and while United States Olympic Committee (USOC) officials are reluctant to put a number on their goal for London the target remains the same – top spot.

LONDON (Reuters) – The United States may routinely issue forecasts for the number of jobs being created or home sales but there will be no bold predictions about the number of medals American athletes might win at the London Olympics.

The U.S. has led the overall medal count at the Summer Games dating back to the 1996 Atlanta Games, and while United States Olympic Committee (USOC) officials are reluctant to put a number on their goal for London the target remains the same – top spot.

LONDON, July 25 (Reuters) – The United States may routinely
issue forecasts for the number of jobs being created or home
sales but there will be no bold predictions about the number of
medals American athletes might win at the London Olympics.

The U.S. has led the overall medal count at the Summer Games
dating back to the 1996 Atlanta Games, and while United States
Olympic Committee (USOC) officials are reluctant to put a number
on their goal for London the target remains the same – top spot.

LONDON (Reuters) – Venus and Serena Williams have opted for the comfort of a Wimbledon hotel over the athletes’ village and might miss the opening ceremony but the tennis siblings were still able to soak up some of the London Olympic experience on Tuesday.

Soon after arriving in the English capital, the Williams sisters and their United States team mates got a taste of Olympic traffic gridlock, delaying their pre-Games news conference.

LONDON, July 24 (Reuters) – Venus and Serena Williams have
opted for the comfort of a Wimbledon hotel over the athletes’
village and might miss the opening ceremony but the tennis
siblings were still able to soak up some of the London Olympic
experience on Tuesday.

Soon after arriving in the English capital, the Williams
sisters and their United States team mates got a taste of
Olympic traffic gridlock, delaying their pre-Games news
conference.

LONDON (Reuters) – A four-time Olympian who has won 14 gold medals and has said he is retiring at the end of the London Games, Michael Phelps would seem the ideal athlete to lead the United States into the opening ceremony on Friday.

But the honor of leading the U.S. team into a Summer Games has seldom gone to the obvious choice.

LONDON, July 23 (Reuters) – A four-time Olympian who has won
14 gold medals and has said he is retiring at the end of the
London Games, Michael Phelps would seem the ideal athlete to
lead the United States into the opening ceremony on Friday.

But the honour of leading the U.S. team into a Summer Games
has seldom gone to the obvious choice.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 3 (Reuters) – Stretched out near the
finish area at a scorching hot National Stadium, Veronica
Campbell-Brown goes about her pre-race routine unnoticed, just
another speedster among Jamaica’s galaxy of sprinting stars.

With Usain Bolt settling into the starting blocks, 100 metre
world champion Yohan Blake warming up and Beijing Games’ 100m
winner Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce holding court in between, it
takes a lot for a double Olympic 200m champion to get noticed.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) – Yohan Blake and not Usain Bolt may now be the man to beat in London Games but the mission remains the same with the ‘The Beast’ set to lead an all out assault by Jamaican sprinters on the Olympic medal podium.

A weekend of high-speed drama at the Jamaican Olympic trials sent shockwaves all the way to London as Blake handed triple Olympic champion and world record holder Bolt two stunning defeats in three days, capturing the 100 and 200 metres titles to severely dent his training partner’s aura of invincibility.