Olympics

ESPN News Services Mar 18, 2024, 04:04 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Five-time Olympic champion Laura Kenny said Monday she is retiring from professional cycling. Kenny, Britain’s most decorated female Olympian, won titles at the London, Rio and Tokyo Games and also picked up seven World Championship crowns. Kenny, 31, gave birth to her second
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Associated Press Mar 17, 2024, 10:50 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BRISBANE, Australia — Brisbane Olympics organizers have scrapped plans to demolish and rebuild an iconic cricket ground as the centerpiece of the 2032 Games while also rejecting a review panel’s recommendation for a new stadium in city parklands. Queensland state’s Premier Steven Miles instead
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Associated Press Mar 17, 2024, 08:29 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria — Lara Gut-Behrami has completed half of her mission to win four crystal globes this Alpine skiing World Cup season. And the Swiss star hasn’t even had to show her best skiing yet. Gut-Behrami secured the overall and giant slalom titles Sunday
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Associated Press Mar 16, 2024, 09:59 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria — For Mikaela Shiffrin, the award for the best slalom skier this season is different from the 15 crystal globes the American star won earlier in her career. This one, for a change, doesn’t feel like the end of a season. Shiffrin
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Associated Press Mar 15, 2024, 03:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions AIGLE, Switzerland — Four-time Olympic cyclist Christos Volikákis tested positive for doping in retests of samples from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, the International Cycling Union said Friday. Volikákis won medals for Greece in track cycling at world and European championships but not
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Associated Press Mar 14, 2024, 02:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BOSTON — Some of the top also-rans from the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials are coming to Boston. Elkanah Kibet, who missed the men’s podium by 5 seconds in a personal best 2 hours, 10 minutes, 2 seconds, will run on April 15 in Boston,
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Mar 14, 2024, 07:43 AM ET Open Extended Reactions GENEVA — The Russian Olympic Committee will not boycott this year’s Paris Games, its president said Thursday, despite restrictions on athletes imposed by the International Olympic Committee as punishment for the invasion of Ukraine. “We will never take the path of boycotting [the Games]. We will
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ESPN News Services Mar 13, 2024, 01:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — NFL legend Peyton Manning and singer Kelly Clarkson will bring a new flavor to NBC Universal’s upcoming Paris Olympics coverage this summer. Manning and Clarkson are expected to join Mike Tirico to host the opening ceremony, the network announced Tuesday
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Mar 12, 2024, 07:03 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency said Tuesday he remained skeptical and concerned about Russia’s anti-doping practices as some of the country’s athletes prepare to compete as neutrals at the Paris Summer Olympics. Speaking at the WADA Annual Symposium in Lausanne, WADA
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Mar 11, 2024, 10:48 AM ET Open Extended Reactions March 11 (Reuters) – Athletes from Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Portugal will face more stringent out-of-competition (OOC) testing to be eligible for the Paris Olympics as their national testing programs are not sufficient, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Monday. The decision comes after the
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Associated Press Mar 10, 2024, 06:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions INZELL, Germany — Jordan Stolz became the youngest allround speedskating world champion since Eric Heiden and the first American to win the title since Shani Davis, capping a dominating performance Sunday with the highest points total ever. The 19-year-old Stolz started the day with
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Associated Press Mar 10, 2024, 10:19 AM ET Open Extended Reactions ARE, Sweden — All Mikaela Shiffrin has been looking for in her first race back after a six-week injury layoff was “good skiing.” What she got, though, was even by the American star’s standards “an insane way to return.” Shiffrin made a triumphant comeback
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ESPN News Services Mar 10, 2024, 12:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions American cyclist Matteo Jorgenson won the Paris-Nice stage race for the first time on Sunday, with Belgian Remco Evenepoel clinching the final stage to finish second overall. Jorgenson, 24, who races for the Visma-Lease team and lives in Nice, secured the biggest victory
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Mar 9, 2024, 12:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The 50-kilometer women’s classic cross-country race in and around Oslo’s famous Holmenkollen stadium Saturday was marred by drunken brawls among the spectators. Norwegian broadcaster NRK reported that several fights broke out, with some fans storming the barriers toward the ski slope and falling over a fence
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Associated Press Mar 9, 2024, 09:31 AM ET Open Extended Reactions ARE, Sweden — Italian skier Federica Brignone used a blistering second run to win the season’s penultimate women’s World Cup giant slalom Saturday and stay in contention for the discipline title. Brignone needed to gain at least 36 points more than GS standings leader
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Associated Press Mar 8, 2024, 12:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Mikaela Shiffrin is no longer challenging for a women’s record-tying sixth World Cup overall title this month and on Friday praised standings leader Lara Gut-Behrami for her “stunning” skiing. Shiffrin set out her limited race plans for the rest of the season in an
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Associated Press Mar 7, 2024, 06:21 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SALZBURG, Austria — Brazil has a top Winter Olympics medal prospect in Alpine skiing after the World Cup slalom champion last season, Lucas Braathen, announced on Thursday he will start to compete for his mother’s home nation. Braathen, whose father is Norwegian, split from
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