Norway jumped on the United States from the opening whistle, getting two goals in the first four minutes Wednesday to beat the U.S. women’s soccer team 2-0 at the Beijing Olympics.

Midfielder Angela Hucles, a former University of Virginia standout, scored the winning goal in the Peace Queen Cup final in South Korea in June — on a set piece that might normally have gone through Abby Wambach.

“People have no idea that CVa kids, rowing here in the reservoir — that they’re world-class athletes,” said Kevin Sauer recently.

As the makeup of the United States women’s basketball team shifts to a younger generation, legendary guard Dawn Staley is going through some changes of her own.

When you get the chance, watch Adam Nelson at work.

Putting his studies at the Darden School of Business on the back burner for the time being, Nelson is focused on his third trip to the Olympics to compete in the shot put.

Bill Crutchfield, CEO of Albemarle County-based Crutch-field Corp., carried the Beijing Olympic Torch on May 18 in Hangzhou, China.

Julia Rudd, a 25-year-old Wisconsin native and 2006 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, is an Olympic hopeful in the steeplechase.

Dalai Lama talks about protests

Despite massive security, at least two activists got within almost an arm’s length of the flame before they were grabbed by police. Officers tackled many protesters and carried off some of them. A protester threw water at the torch but failed to extinguish it and was also taken away.