The only drama in synchronized swimming is who's going to take the silver.

The Russian national anthem will surely be playing during the medal ceremony. Again.

Olympic great Michael Phelps admits to a different sort of gold run -- his habit of peeing in the pool.

The champion swimmer, who is retiring from competitive swimming after his success in the London Olympics, told the Wall Street Journal that professional swimmers didn't bother clambering out to search for a toilet.

A Japanese track cyclist from the no-go zone around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is helping unite a community scattered by last year's quake-tsunami disaster as they cheer him on in the London Olympics.

Refugees gathered in the city of Tsukuba on Friday to watch Kazunari Watanabe in the team sprint and will get behind their native son again on Tuesday when he takes part in the Keirin event.

Carmelo Anthony doesn't want to mess around against Argentina. Not after the close call against Lithuania.

Anthony, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and the rest of the star-studded U.S. basketball team have now been tested at the London Olympics — and, admittedly, they weren't quite prepared for it.

Usain Bolt stormed to a successful defense of his Olympic 100m crown in the second-fastest time ever recorded as the Jamaican superstar confirmed his status as the greatest sprinter of all time.

Bolt made a hesitant start but left the field for dead from 60 meters to win by two meters (yards) in 9.63sec, slower only than his world record of 9.58sec set in 2009.

Andy Murray put his hands over his face when it was over, then crouched down as Center Court roared. He quickly popped back up and went to the net to shake Roger Federer's hand.

One month after anguish at Wimbledon, it was elation in the Olympics — all in the same spot.

Barcelona and France left-back Eric Abidal, who is currently recovering from liver transplant surgery in April, has set his sights on a return to action in December, he told Catalan TV3 on Saturday night.

"I have started working in the gym and I feel good," he said after Barcelona's friendly against Paris Saint-Germain in Paris, which the Catalan club won 4-1 on penalties after a 2-2 draw.

Roger Federer has "been around the block," as he puts it. He knows how to handle the big moments, playing for major titles, for the record books, for an exalted place in tennis history.

Sunday's Olympic gold medal singles match is something new even for him.

Michael Phelps walks away from the greatest Olympic career in history with no regrets, summing up a journey that yielded 18 gold medals in the simplest of terms: "I did it."

"Through the ups and downs, I have achieved everything I ever wanted to do," said Phelps, who has often voiced hopes that his legacy would be not just about medals, but about changing the face of swimming.

Germany finished the Olympics’ eight-day swimming program on Saturday without an Olympic medal for the first time in 80 years with changes promised ahead of Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

The German team will leave London without a single swimming podium placing for the first time since 1932 as ex-champion Britta Steffen missed bronze by seven hundredths of a second in the 50m freestyle final.