Australian Olympic officials say they will take down a giant "boxing kangaroo" flag from the Vancouver athletes' village if they receive an official request from the IOC. The green and gold flag, which depicts a red-gloved cartoon kangaroo, has been hanging from a balcony from the Australian team's ...

Jamaica's bid to have its bobsled team compete in this month's Olympics has come up short. The list of nations who qualified and entered bobsled events at the Vancouver Games, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, failed to include Jamaica — which had spent the last few weeks ...

The Australian Olympic Committee has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to allow its 2-women bobsled team to compete at the Vancouver Games. Fiona de Jong, the Australian committee's director of sport, lodged the appeal in an attempt to gain a games berth for Astrid Loch-Wilkinson ...