The International Olympic Committee has stepped up efforts to explain its position on trying to help Russian athletes qualify for the Paris Games. It comes amid a backlash from Ukraine and its allies. The Olympic body last week mapped a pathway to Paris for athletes from Russia and Belarus w…
U.S. Figure Skating has had enough with the delays over the awarding of team medals from the Beijing Olympics. It says in a strongly worded statement Thursday that it's time for “a fair and appropriate ruling to rightfully award medals to all clean sport athletes affected by this situation.”…
A Japanese company embroiled in the Tokyo Olympic corruption scandal says it will strengthen oversight to prevent further wrongdoing. The president of the Japanese entertainment company Kadokawa has bowed deeply with two other executives to show remorse in a news conference. He says the comp…
Diana Taurasi's USA Basketball career isn't done just yet. The five-time Olympic gold medalist is part of the national team training camp in Minnesota next month. While Taurasi will be at the camp, Brittney Griner won't. She is still part of the pool that the 2024 Olympic team will be chosen from.
Olympic gold medalist Wladimir Klitschko has joined Ukraine's fight against IOC plans to let some Russians compete at the 2024 Paris Summer Games. The former heavyweight champion has suggested in a video message that sports leaders will be accomplices to the war if athletes from Russia and i…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that allowing Russia to compete at the 2024 Paris Games was tantamount to showing that "terror is somehow acceptable". Ukraine says its athletes may boycott the Paris Olympics next year if Russia and Belarus are allowed to take part. FRA…
Ilia Malinin won his first national men’s title, delivering a 177.38 free skate for a total score of 287.74 on the final day of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Malinin landed three quadruple jumps and retained his 10-point lead over second-place finisher Jason Brown.
Mikaela Shiffrin will have to wait for at least five more weeks before tying the World Cup record for most career wins with 86. The American skier finished second in a slalom and remained one victory short of Ingemar Stenmark’s total on the all-time overall winners list.
Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier captured another national pairs gold at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Saturday night with a spectacular free skate that scored them an overall season-best 227.97. The reigning world champions were forced to withdraw the night before last year's na…
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said that Russian and Belarusian athletes can compete at the 2024 Olympics in Paris as neutrals.
Mikaela Shiffrin is now the most successful woman in World Cup skiing history after earning the 83rd victory of her career.
Loïc Meillard beat his teammate Gino Caviezel to lead a Swiss 1-2 finish at a floodlit World Cup giant slalom. The pair stepped in to give the Swiss ski team a victory despite the absence of its standout performer as Marco Odermatt sat out the race to rest a sore knee.
Olympic pairs skaters Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier are headed back to the U.S. championships after missing last year's event when he tested positive for COVID-19. The pair went on to great success, helping the Americans win a team medal at the Beijing Games before capturing the world ch…
Loïc Meillard beat his teammate Gino Caviezel to lead a Swiss 1-2 finish at a floodlit World Cup giant slalom. The pair stepped in to give the Swiss ski team a victory despite the absence of its standout performer as Marco Odermatt sat out the race to rest a sore knee.
Olympic pairs skaters Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier are headed back to the U.S. championships after missing last year's event when he tested positive for COVID-19. The pair went on to great success, helping the Americans win a team medal at the Beijing Games before capturing the world championships. But their long wait to return to nationals ends Thursday night, when they step on the ice in San Jose, California. Ilia Malinin is the heavy favorite to win the men's event, Isabeau Levito is favored in the women's competition and Madison Chock and Evan Bates are the ice dance team to watch.
January 25, 1924. The first Winter Olympics took off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps.
January 25, 1924. The first Winter Olympics took off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps.
Mikaela Shiffrin has done quite a lot in only 12 years. Shiffrin raced to a record-breaking 83rd win on Tuesday in her 238th race on the World Cup circuit. She won a giant slalom in Italy to move ahead of former United States teammate Lindsey Vonn.
American skier Mikaela Shiffrin’s pursuit of a record 83rd World Cup win will move on to the next stop on the circuit. Shiffrin finished seventh in the super-G, 0.62 seconds behind race winner Ragnhild Mowinckel on the course that will host the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics.
American skier Mikaela Shiffrin's pursuit of a record-breaking 83rd World Cup victory is still on hold. Shiffrin finished seventh 0.39 seconds behind winner Ilka Stuhec on the course that will be used for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics.
President of the International Athletics Federation Sebastien Coe has praised Kenya's efforts to tackle a doping crisis that has seen a series of suspensions of Kenyan runners following positive tests for prohibited products, but says the country still has a long way to go to resolve the issue.
A cross-country move by swimmer Katie Ledecky after the Tokyo Olympics led to even more success, and now she is AP's Female Athlete of the Year again.
Two-time Olympic 800m champion David Rudisha has survived a plane crash in Kenya and was left unharmed.
The journey to the 2024 Olympic Games is well underway for dozens of dancers around the globe who hope to secure a spot to compete when breaking makes its athletic debut on the world's stage.
Long form: Dancers begin charting path to Paris Olympics
Organizers said they chose the cap as an "allegory of freedom."
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