Sports-Olympics

MUNICH Willy Bogner has been named head of Munich's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia With 100 days to the opening of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, the athletes village was handed over to the Games organizers Wednesday.

U.S. Figure Skating announced Wednesday that San Jose will be the host city of its 2012 national championships.

NEW YORK A very confident adolescent boy stopped skating around the Rockefeller Center rink to ask Gretchen Bleiler something.

Taylor Phinney had a simple plan. The budding American cycling star was going to spend four years working toward four minutes, which is about how long his final race would have taken at the 2012 London Games.

NEW YORK Short track speedskater J.R. Celski is confident he'll recover from a deep gash to his leg in time for February's Vancouver Olympics.

LONDON London Olympic organizers will tender for $1.1 billion worth of goods and services between now and the 2012 Games.

BEIJING Chinese officials continue to struggle to find uses for the Bird's Nest Stadium, the iconic centerpiece of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

WHITEHORSE, Yukon Territory The Olympic flame is about to light up Canada's North.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. The leaders of the U.S. Olympic Committee are going through the kind of year that won't look good on their resumes.

VANCOUVER The final round of ticket sales for the 2010 Winter Olympics begins Saturday.

LONDON Queen Elizabeth II visited the Olympic Park on Tuesday to inspect preparations for the 2012 London Games.

The United States Olympic hockey team for the 2010 Games in Vancouver will be revealed during NBC's broadcast of the NHL's Winter Classic on January 1.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates The ruler of Dubai has taken part in a high-level meeting to discuss the Gulf emirate's possible bid for the 2020 Olympics.