Ramzi of Bahrain stripped of Olympic 1,500-meter gold; 4 others DQed for doping
LONDON - Fifteen months after the Beijing Olympics, Bahraini middle-distance runner Rashid Ramzi was stripped of his 1,500-metre gold medal Wednesday and four other athletes were disqualified because of doping at the Games.

Hollingsworth wins skeleton race in Lake Placid
The home-ice advantage for the U.S. skeleton team vanished for the second straight week in World Cup competition and Canada and Germany took advantage in the snowless Adirondack Mountains.

BMW to provide vehicles for 2012 Games
BMW has signed up as the latest top-tier domestic sponsor of the 2012 London Olympics, and organizers remain in talks with additional potential investors.

Burke against 2014 Olympics
This isn't the first time Canada and the U.S. have not agreed on something. A day after Team Canada executive director Steve Yzerman pushed for NHLers to participate in the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia, Team USA boss Brian Burke said such a commitment does not make a lot of sense to the league.