Mikulak Shines On First Day Of Gymnastics Trials
Sam Mikulak solidified his spot on the five-man Olympic team with a score of 91.80 on Thursday, just ahead of Danell Leyva at 91.70 and national champion John Orozco.
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Sam Mikulak solidified his spot on the five-man Olympic team with a score of 91.80 on Thursday, just ahead of Danell Leyva at 91.70 and national champion John Orozco.
Gymnastics fans and Olympics enthusiasts from across the country have their attention fixed on San Jose, where the 2012 U.S. Olympics Trials for gymnastics began Thursday.
If Josh Dixon makes the cut at the US Olympic team trials in San Jose on Thursday, he could also make history as the first openly gay gymnast to compete at the Olympics.
Fencing may not be the most iconic of Olympic sports, but the Bay Area will be represented, nonetheless, at the Summer 2012 games in London.
San Jose's downtown bars, restaurants and hotels are preparing for the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials which will be held at HP Pavilion starting next week.
Organizers of the Reno-Tahoe Winter Games Coalition said a new revenue-sharing agreement between the International and U.S. Olympic committees was critical to keeping alive their dream of hosting the Winter Games in 2022.
An Olympic athlete from Northern California is crediting her conversion to the paleolithic diet in healing her body from the rigors of top-level competition.
Alexander Massiallas was following a family tradition when he took up foil fencing. His father competed in the Olympics three times, and now the young man has himself been named to the U.S. men's team for 2012.
As KCBS' Mike Sugerman learned during his travels, About the Bay, 20-something Ali Chiang is a budding fashion star - and a star skeet shooter, too.
Palo Alto Police Officer Ben Lee has been chosen to coach the 2012 U.S. Badminton Team in the London Olympics this summer.
A boxing club founded in East Palo Alto to give young people an alternative to getting involved in crime has its sights set on sending a former gang member to the 2012 Olympic Games.
A group of California business and political leaders has formed an exploratory committee to look into bringing the Winter Olympics to the state.
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Kerri Walsh of San Jose is reuniting with Misty May-Treanor to go for a third consecutive gold medal in beach volleyball, the pair announced.
Owners of the Lake Tahoe-area ski resort that hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics have agreed to sell Squaw Valley USA to a Colorado-based investment firm pledging $50 million in improvements over the next five years.
The San Jose Sports Hall of Fame has inducted its first decathlete, Olympic track legend Bruce Jenner.
Olympian Tommie Smith is selling the gold medal he won at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, where his black-gloved salute on the podium shocked the sports world.
