Olympics

• LONDON — In the first three days of the Olympic swimming meet, the United States has set one world record. Dana Vollmer did that. Matt Grevers set an Olympic record. Missy Franklin set an American record. The two cover boys of the U.S.
(Chicago Tribune)
• Ryan Lochte took the gold Saturday in the 400-meter medley. When Nicole Tankovich tuned into NBC Sunday night and watched the U.S.
(Wall Street Journal)
• LONDON -- The kid was barely out of the pool, droplets still falling from her outrageously pearly earrings and brightly painted nails, when she first considered what had just happened. Missy Franklin laughed and laughed.
(Los Angeles Times)
• LONDON -- The U.S. womens volleyball team defeated Brazil 3-1 on Monday at the Olympics in an early-round rematch of the Beijing Games final won by the Brazilians.
(Abc Local Web)
• LONDON — Michael Phelps has yet to win a gold medal, and Ryan Lochte's star is fading. So along comes Missy Franklin, yet to start her senior year in high school, to restore American swim hopes at the Olympics.
(Washington Times)
• So far, WBAL has treated Olympics results as a TV or movie critic would "spoilers" in a preview.
(a study in on-demand expectations unfulfilled - Baltimore Sun)
• LONDON -- As a top American swimming official described Chinese phenom Ye Shiwens performance as impossible, one of the U.S. swimmers scheduled to oppose her for a medal Tuesday stopped just short of calling for an investigation.
(Chicago Tribune)
• LONDON — The U.S. women say they dont care about the final score. They just want to have least one more point than their opponent at the end of games in the womens Olympic basketball tournament.
(NJ.com)
• Twitter has suspended the account of a Los Angeles-based reporter for a British newspaper who included the email address of the NBC Olympics president and asked his followers to write him to complain about the networks coverage.
(FOX News)