NBC — Mystic Falls is about to get hit with Olympic fever. Gold medal gymnast — and self-proclaimed “The Vampire Diaries” fanatic — Gabrielle Douglas will make a guest appearance in the seventh episode of season four of the CW drama, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The episode is slated to air Nov. 29. Video [...]

With a little British pomp and a lot of British pop, London brought the curtain down on a glorious Olympic Games on Sunday in a spectacular, technicolour pageant of landmarks, lightshows and lots of fun. The closing ceremony offered a sensory blast including rock ‘n’ roll rickshaws, dustbin percussionists, an exploding yellow car and a [...]

Sebastian Brendel of Germany won Olympic gold in the 1,000-meter C-1 on Wednesday, adding to the titles he captured at the last three European championships. Brendel took charge of the second half of the race to win in 3 minutes 47.176 seconds. David Cal Figueroa of Spain was nearly a second behind to take the [...]

LONDON — Okay, they didn’t win. But if this was, indeed, the swansong for many of them, the stubborn old guard that hung in during the dark days to help forge a bright a new vista for Canadian women’s basketball, there are worse ways for the curtain to fall. Doing their best against the world’s [...]

Great Britain’s Dai Greene finished back in fourth as Felix Sanchez won a surprise 400m hurdles gold. World champion Greene was 0.14 seconds off a medal as American Michael Tinsley took silver and favourite Javier Culson bronze. Two weeks before his 35th birthday, Sanchez was considered years past his prime, but in winning here repeated [...]

Li Xiaoxia extended China’s domination in women’s table tennis by clinching the Olympic gold medal with a victory over teammate Ding Ning in Wednesday’s singles final. China has won every women’s singles gold medal in table tennis since the game was introduced at the Olympics in 1988. It has won 21 of 25 gold medals [...]

The “Fab Five” got off to a strong start Tuesday, and it led to a golden finish. The U.S. women’s gymnastics team won its second gold medal ever, living up to its pre-tournament billing, which included a Sports Illustrated cover for the Olympic darlings. Gabby Douglas led the U.S. to a 183.596 score, while Russia [...]

LONDON — A sonic weapon used to ward off pirates attacks and drive back rioting crowds will be part of the security arsenal at the London Olympics, Sky News reported Saturday. The American-built long-range acoustic device (LRad) can emit a highly focused beam of sound at a pain-inducing 150 decibels (dB), louder than the takeoff [...]

India’s Olympic shooters are annoyed about being forced to leave their London hotel a day early after a booking mix-up at the shooting World Cup, a test event for the Olympic Games. “It’s very impolite of the administration or the hotelier, we don’t know exactly who did it. It was not good for the athletes,” [...]

The health service is appealing for extra blood donations before the Olympics start in July. NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) says stocks need to be 30% higher than normal by the start of the Games. The extra supplies are part of the contingency plans to cope with the extra visitors coming to the UK. There [...]