ATH–OBIT-WAITZ   OSLO, Norway _ Grete Waitz, a Norwegian runner who won nine New York City Marathons and the silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, died Tuesday after a six-year battle with cancer. She was 57. Moved. By Nils Myklebost.   NEW/DEVELOPING:   OLY–BOA DISPUTE   LONDON _ Britain’s two major Olympic [...]

Campbell-Brown dominated her competition with a quick start and a strong finish to beat Natalie Knight by more than a second and break the meet record of 22.59 set by Aleen Bailey in 2001.

Still, GE executives said the high-profile event had ratings that were 14 percent better than the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, for which NBC paid $613 million.

Skicross was added to the Olympic program following the overwhelming popularity of snowboardcross, which made a splash at the 2006 Turin Games. The men race on Sunday, with the women hitting Cypress Mountain on Tuesday.

They knew they were long shots to get into the Vancouver Games, but still, the notion of another team from the tiny island nation competing in these Olympics _ 22 years after the first Jamaican sled raced in the Calgary Games and sparked the idea for the movie “Cool Runnings” _ was enough to create a buzz.

AUSTRALIAN OPEN MELBOURNE, Australia _ The Williams sisters hold court at the Australian Open, a back-to-back Venus-Serena doubleheader that left the siblings still in the mix for yet another Grand Slam singles title. Moved. WITH: _ MELBOURNE, Australia _ BC-TEN–AUSTRALIAN OPEN-IVANOVIC. Moved. By Tanalee Smith. _ MELBOURNE, Australia _ BC-TEN–AUSTRALIAN OPEN NOTEBOOK. Moved. By Jocelyn [...]

Less than two years since Usain Bolt brought world records and world renown to the island nation of Jamaica — Skier Errol Kerr is hoping to put his country on the map in the new Olympic sport of skicross.