At age 33, Chari Hawkins achieved a dream that for years had felt impossible: She made the U.S. Olympic team. She floated through her early days in Paris feeling lucky to be there and excited to ...

Paraguayan swimmer Luana Alonso, a 20-year-old athlete who attends college in the United States and has grown a large following on social media, was reportedly kicked out of the Olympic Village at the ...

Jules Boykoff, a former professional soccer player, is a political science professor at Pacific University and author of six books on the Olympics, most recently What Are the Olympics For? Dave Zirin ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...