Olympics

Associated Press Mar 1, 2025, 08:36 AM ET Open Extended Reactions KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia — Henrik Kristoffersen won his first World Cup giant slalom in three years on Saturday, denying runner-up Lucas Pinheiro Braathen what would have been Brazil’s first-ever top-level victory in Alpine skiing. Pinheiro Braathen improved from seventh after the opening run as

Associated Press Feb 28, 2025, 05:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CLERMONT-FERRAND, France — Armand “Mondo Duplantis” lifted his pole vault world record to 6.27 meters in a World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting on Friday. The Olympic and world champion added a centimeter to his world record he last improved in August in Poland. It

Associated Press Feb 27, 2025, 08:37 PM ET A Florida judge excoriated the U.S. Center for SafeSport for perpetrating fraud against the court and intentionally withholding exculpatory evidence in a case involving a teen water polo player whose own complaint to the center resulted in her being arrested on her high school campus for assault.

Feb 26, 2025, 03:36 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BERLIN — International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach will resign as member of the Olympic body after handing over the reins to his presidential successor in June, it was announced Wednesday. Bach, an Olympic fencing champion in 1976, steps down from his post this year after

ESPN News Services Feb 26, 2025, 11:16 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The International Olympic Committee has taken a key step toward retaining boxing on the program for the Los Angeles Games in 2028 as it recognized a new governing body for the sport. The IOC board granted provisional recognition Wednesday to World Boxing, a

Michael VoepelFeb 25, 2025, 05:14 PM ET Close Michael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. Open Extended Reactions Diana Taurasi, the leading scorer in WNBA history and voted “greatest of all

Associated Press Feb 24, 2025, 05:39 PM ET Al Trautwig, one of the most recognizable sports broadcasters in New York and a fixture at numerous international sporting events for more than three decades, has died. He was 68. Trautwig’s son, Alex, told The Associated Press his father died Sunday at his home on Long Island

Shauna Farnell Feb 23, 2025, 11:51 AM ET Open Extended Reactions THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ski racer of all time has achieved what no skier has ever gotten close to doing before. Mikaela Shiffrin has reached a level that few athletes have reached in any sport. On Feb. 23, the 29-year-old notched her 100th World Cup

Associated Press Feb 23, 2025, 07:20 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SESTRIERE, Italy — Mikaela Shiffrin is 100% the best in skiing’s World Cup history book. Shiffrin’s record-extending 100th career World Cup race win Sunday fulfilled a quest put on hold by a serious crash in November. Back to racing in her favored slalom event,

Associated Press Feb 23, 2025, 09:58 AM ET Open Extended Reactions YANQING, China — Max Langenhan of Germany won the luge World Cup men’s singles overall championship on Sunday for the third consecutive year, while the veteran German men’s doubles pairing of Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt clinched the seasonlong crown for the sixth time.

Associated Press Feb 22, 2025, 12:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions YANQING, China — Julia Taubitz clinched the women’s World Cup luge singles overall championship on Saturday, marking the 27th consecutive year that a German slider has captured the title. The streak lived on this year by less than one second. Taubitz won the season-ending

Associated Press Feb 22, 2025, 06:21 AM ET Open Extended Reactions CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — World champion Franjo von Allmen led a Swiss sweep on home snow Saturday at the first World Cup downhill since winning his first career gold medal two weeks ago. Von Allmen rode out a late scare getting unbalanced after landing the

D’Arcy Maine Feb 21, 2025, 10:10 AM ET Open Extended Reactions OLIVIA DUNNE KNOWS she hasn’t had a traditional college experience. But it was a conversation with four-time Super Bowl champion Rob Gronkowski, at a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue party, that really made that clear. “He said, ‘I don’t know what I would’ve done if

Associated Press Feb 20, 2025, 09:51 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Javonte Smart scored 16 points and the United States clinched a spot in this summer’s AmeriCup tournament with a 72-71 win over Puerto Rico in a qualifying game on Thursday night. Jahmius Ramsey scored 11 for the U.S., which

Shwetha SurendranFeb 19, 2025, 03:41 PM ET Close Shwetha Surendran is writer in ESPN’s investigative and enterprise unit. Open Extended Reactions WASHINGTON — The U.S. air travel system is inadequately equipped for the millions of visitors expected for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Summer Olympics, according to a report released Wednesday by

Associated Press Feb 19, 2025, 03:34 PM ET Open Extended Reactions COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — USA Swimming named University of Delaware athletic director Chrissi Rawak as its new CEO and president on Wednesday. Rawak fills a role previously held by Tim Hinchey, who left the governing body of one of the biggest Olympic sports shortly

Associated Press Feb 19, 2025, 09:22 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LAUSANE, Switzerland — The World Anti-Doping Agency said Wednesday that Serbia’s authorities have broken up a criminal ring that was importing and distributing doping substances in the country. WADA said in a statement that 10 members of the organized group have been arrested and

Feb 18, 2025, 12:05 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Dallas Mavericks star Kyrie Irving said he wants to play for Team Australia and hopes to gain eligibility in time to represent the Boomers at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Irving, who was born in Melbourne, Australia, was asked during All-Star Weekend whether he would consider