“Olympics” on The Daily Caller

Track star Lolo Jones says she was a “professional shoplifter” by sixth grade as her family faced financial hurdles while she was growing up in Des Moines. (more)

While a few Americans might find women’s Olympic sports to be a little less exciting than men’s, likely none would take death over watching their countrywomen participate on the international stage. (more)

Heat guard Dwyane Wade says money is not his motivation for the London Games this summer. (more)

Yoga, the ancient yet ever-popular practice that emphasizes relaxation and inner focus, might be getting a little more competitive. If one group devoted to yoga has its way, the popular exercise will eventually be an event in the Olympic Games. (more)

ROME (AP) — Rome dropped its bid for the 2020 Olympics on Tuesday after Premier Mario Monti said the Italian government would not provide financial backing for an estimated $12.5-billion project at a time of economic crisis. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Phelps is the latest athlete to use a hyperbaric chamber to aid his recovery from training. (more)

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Sarah Burke was an X Games star with a grass-roots mentality — a daredevil superpipe skier who understood the risks inherent to her sport and the debt she owed to it for her success on the slopes. (more)

The Associated Press is reporting that the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are about to resume negotiations over how to divvy up the the billions of dollars NBC has been paying to televise the Olympics to American audiences. According to those same reports, the IOC is unlikely to ever award an Olympics to another American city until the organization is able to claim a bigger slice of the American television pie. (more)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A North Korean official expressed hope that his country could co-host the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics with South Korea, a news report said Wednesday. (more)

Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis could be dashing headlong into New Jersey politics. (more)

Eight gold medals in a single Olympics and now a video game. That’s the new project for record-breaking athlete, Michael Phelps, who is set to release “Push the Limit” this June. (more)

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The International Olympic Committee has “no doubt” that Russia will deliver a safe Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 despite security concerns raised by the suicide bombing attack at Moscow’s main airport. (more)

Oh, to catch Bud Greenspan’s eye and then turn up in one of his Olympic documentaries. For many athletes, from the famous to the obscure, the honor ranked just behind winning a medal. (more)

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea (AP) — The United States and South Korea prepared for war games Sunday as South Koreans demanded vengeance over a deadly North Korean artillery bombardment that has raised fears of more clashes between the bitter rivals. (more)

The next two years do not bode well for the United States in relation to the rest of the world. (more)

(AP) — Mike Krzyzewski has a commitment from another top recruit: Kobe Bryant. (more)

The 2010 Ryder Cup has been nine years in the planning, but now the action is just days away. (more)

For the second time in a month, President Obama on Tuesday made a grand show of demanding that Congress pass legislation that was already guaranteed to be approved in hours or days. (more)

It was just a matter of time before the conversation wound around to Winston Churchill. (more)

Well it was a fabulous weekend in the Hamptons, where I’m usually loathe to go without my shotgun. But friends had a party and to the party you must go. It did not disappoint — a spirited game of whiffle ball (I got two hits and two strike outs — yes, I pitched), an excruciatingly long game of beer pong with Bill Schulz, swimming and frolicking in the grass. It was not without incident, however, as I left with 17 mosquito bites on my lower legs. I shaved my legs the next morning and my razor thought it was doing moguls at the Nagano Olympics. I looked like a leper, and that’s not leperist — a leper would have heartily agreed. (more)