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Usain Bolt anchored Jamaica’s 4x100-meter relay team to a new world record on Saturday night, becoming the first track and field athlete to win three events at consecutive Olympics since 1904.

The names change, not the results. Just call the U.S. women's basketball team Olympic champion - again. The Americans won their fifth straight gold medal Saturday, routing France 86-50 and putting more distance between themselves and the rest of the world heading into the 2016 Rio Games.

NBC's coverage of the London Olympics has blown away the most optimistic projections for audience performance in an increasingly fractured media landscape.

Ed McKeever wins the men's 200m kayak sprint, adding a 26th gold to Great Britain's medal tally at the London Olympics.

The London Games are set to end in a blazing tribute to British pop and pizazz, with a closing ceremony that will see stars from the Spice Girls to The Who turn Olympic Stadium into a giant jukebox of musical hits....

In a semifinal men’s basketball game, the United States defeated Argentina 109-83 and will play Spain for the gold medal at the London Olympics.

The Americans won their first gold medal in the sprint relay in 16 years. Their time, 40.82 seconds, broke the previous mark, 41.37, which was set by East Germany in 1985.

The seven missing in London. That's what the headlines in the West African nation of Cameroon call the athletes who walked away from the Olympic village at the London Games.

A year after blowing two leads in losing to Japan in the World Cup championship game, the USA women's soccer team was once again the best on the planet, and they wept at the power of it all.

More than 16 million of the 30 million-ish people who were still watching NBC’s London Olympics about 11 p.m. Wednesday stuck around to see the ad-free unveiling of the network’s new Matthew Perry comedy, “Go On.”