Members of the 2008 U.S. Olympics team will be featured on the Sept. 8 season premiere of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” the New York Times reports. The premiere, meant as a “welcome back” of sorts for the athletes and to show off Chicago as it bids for the 2016 Summer Games, will tape Wednesday in Chicago’s Millennium Park. Athletes scheduled to appear include gold medalists Michael Phelps, Kobe Bryant, Nastia Liukin, Misty May-Treanor, Kerri Walsh and Lisa Leslie.
— Christopher Perez