When rower Krista Guloien led a contingent of 100 Canadian Olympians returning from Beijing down the escalator at Vancouver International Airport Monday she found a country more than satisfied with how the Summer Games turned out.
A satisfied Canadian Olympic Committee has started looking ahead to 2012 and London, England, targeting a top-12 finish after Canadian athletes met its goal of a top-16 standing in Beijing by placing 15th with 18 medals.
As he praised Beijing for the way the Summer Olympics were run, the head of the International Olympic Committee said his organization cannot force change on a sovereign state.
Norwegian physicist Hans Eriksen says Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt could have run much faster than his winning time of 9.69 seconds in the 100 metres at last month's Beijing Games.
The Swedish wrestler stripped of his bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics for protesting a penalty call during the medal ceremony filed an appeal Thursday with the Court of Arbitration for Sport.