Visiting iconic Glasgow soccer stadium to start the London Games
Summer sky framed by famous stadium in Glasgow GLASGOW, Scotland – We’ve arrived in the north, the farthest outpost of the 2012 Summer Olympics. I’ve dragged videographer Karl Mondon with me for a...
View ArticleBay Area author Ann Killion discusses upcoming Hope Solo book
Former Merc columnist has been covering the U.S. women's soccer team for her upcoming book on goalkeeper Hope Solo. GLASGOW, Scotland – Marin writer Ann Killion is spending the 2012 Summer Olympics...
View ArticleMissy Franklin: Considering Cal but drops Stanford as possible college
LONDON – Stanford’s loss could be Cal’s gain in the recruiting war for burgeoning swim star Missy Franklin. Franklin, 17, told reporters Thursday that she has scheduled recruiting visits to Cal, USC...
View ArticleCal grad Milorad Cavic talks Phelps and politics
LONDON — Cal graduate Milorad Cavic has been Serbia’s sportsman of the year three times. But Americans remeber him as that guy who almost spoiled Michael Phelps record eight gold medal haul in Beijing....
View ArticleWomen’s Road Race: Scenes from start in Central London
LONDON – Rain, well, at least a rain drop or two, finally fell on London this morning at the start of the women’s road race. It feels like a blustery spring day in the Bay Area. And fortunately it is...
View ArticleSights and Sounds from a trek through Olympic Park
LONDON – I finally had my first chance to walk around Olympic Park in between morning and evening swimming events Saturday. I toured the entire sprawling grounds on the east side of London in...
View ArticleCal swimmer Lauren Boyle has Olympic highlight far from spotlight
LONDON – Far from the glorification of medals and Phelps and the rest of it the true nature of the Olympics can be found from the voice of swimmer Lauren Boyle, a 2010 Cal graduate. Boyle, 24, finished...
View ArticleMatt Biondi looks back, ahead at his life as famous Olympic swimmer
LONDON –Catching up with Olympic swim star Matt Biondi always is interesting. Biondi, 46, came out of Campolindo High in Moraga to become an 11-time Olympic medalist and the star of the Seoul Games in...
View ArticleCal swimmer Milorad Cavic: ‘Being competitive is the biggest poison of all’
LONDON – Milorad Cavic is retiring from swimming after the London Games. Few talk about his departure in the same breath as Michael Phelps, though the Olympians are forever linked because of their...
View ArticleCyclist Shelley Olds still flattened by Olympic result 1 week later
LONDON – Shelley Olds hasn’t gotten over the flat tire that sabotaged her Olympic aspirations. “I am still a little upset every time I think about it,” she said from her home in Girona, Spain. “But I...
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