Olympics

Associated Press Oct 29, 2024, 06:52 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Promising Italian skier Matilde Lorenzi has died from her injuries after a crash in training in northern Italy, the International Ski and Snowboard Federation said Tuesday. She was 19. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of Matilde Lorenzi,” the world ski body said.

Associated Press Oct 29, 2024, 09:18 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The Tour de France will have a more traditional look in 2025. After a rare finish outside Paris this past July, cycling’s biggest race is getting back to basics with the route that was unveiled Tuesday. A mostly flat first week is followed by

Associated Press Oct 27, 2024, 10:17 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SOELDEN, Austria — Three Norwegian skiers exuberantly celebrated their sweep of the podium at the season-opening men’s World Cup giant slalom Sunday, and they had a former teammate now competing for Brazil joining in. Alexander Steen Olsen screamed for joy after building on his

ESPN News Services Oct 27, 2024, 07:36 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha broke the men’s half-marathon world record on Sunday, finishing in 57 minutes, 30 seconds at the Medio Maraton de Valencia in Spain to shave one second off the previous mark. The 27-year-old Kejelcha, running his sixth half-marathon, settled in behind

Associated Press Oct 26, 2024, 09:47 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SOELDEN, Austria — Italian skier Federica Brignone won the women’s World Cup season opener Saturday after first-run leader Mikaela Shiffrin dropped to fifth. The American posted the 27th-fastest time in the second run of the giant slalom and finished 1.61 seconds off the lead.

Associated Press Oct 25, 2024, 10:23 PM ET Open Extended Reactions HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Three-time world champion Kaori Sakamoto took the lead after she won the women’s short program at Skate Canada International on Friday with a 74.97-point performance. Japan’s Sakamoto, who is Skate Canada’s defending champion, finished ahead of American Alysa Liu (67.68)

Associated Press Oct 25, 2024, 11:44 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SOELDEN, Austria — Austrian skiing great Marcel Hirscher has confirmed his start in Sunday’s season-opening giant slalom, making his return to competitive skiing after 2,051 days. “Back to the game that we love … I’ve decided, I do this,” Hirscher says in a video

Associated Press Oct 25, 2024, 06:02 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SOELDEN, Austria — Swiss standout Marco Odermatt was named “skier of the year” by the federation of ski journalists on Friday, succeeding Mikaela Shiffrin after she won the award for the third time last year. Odermatt, who won 13 World Cup races on the

Associated Press Oct 24, 2024, 03:49 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Volleyball great Karch Kiraly, who won the first of his three Olympic gold medals as a member of the U.S. indoor team in Los Angeles in 1984, will coach the American men at the Summer Games when they return to LA in 2028. Kiraly

Jeff Kassouf Oct 24, 2024, 07:30 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The Emma Hayes era of the U.S. women’s national team got off to a fairy-tale start this summer, when the Americans returned to the top of the podium in Paris for the program’s fifth Olympic gold medal. Now comes Hayes’ primary assignment. She was

Oct 23, 2024, 02:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Geoff Capes has died at the age of 75. S&G/PA Images via Getty Images Geoff Capes, British strongman, shot put record holder and renowned budgerigar breeder, has died aged 75, his family said on Wednesday. Capes left an indelible mark on British sport, birdkeeping and 1980s popular

Associated Press Oct 22, 2024, 08:17 AM ET Open Extended Reactions GLASGOW, Scotland — Scotland conceived rugby sevens in the 1880s yet it will not feature in the scaled-back 2026 Commonwealth Games hosted by Glasgow. Other sports that have also been dropped include field hockey, triathlon, badminton, Twenty20 cricket, squash, and diving. The Games will

Oct 22, 2024, 02:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Glasgow last hosted the Commonwealth Games in 2014. Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images Glasgow has been awarded the hosting rights for the 2026 Commonwealth Games, organisers announced on Tuesday. The Games were last hosted in Birmingham in 2022, with the next instalment initially due to have been

Oct 21, 2024, 12:40 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LeBron James is one of the most successful basketball players in the sport’s history, earning a myriad of awards and accolades since his NBA debut with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2003. Since then, stints with the Miami Heat and a reunion with Cleveland eventually led him

Oct 20, 2024, 10:48 PM ET Open Extended Reactions During her tenure at UConn, Breanna Stewart established herself as one of the most prolific women’s college basketball players of all time. Since making her professional debut in 2016 with the Seattle Storm, she has become one of the top players in the WNBA. Prior to

Associated Press Oct 19, 2024, 11:01 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Wakaba Higuchi won her first Grand Prix event after more than eight years of trying Saturday night, putting together an error-free program at Skate America to edge Japanese teammate Rinka Watanabe and American star Isabeau Levito. Higuchi finished with 196.93 points at Credit Union

Oct 19, 2024, 02:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions France’s Cassandre Beaugrand recovered from a dreadful start at the women’s triathlon world championship finals in Torremolinos, Spain, on Saturday to add a first world title to her Olympic gold medal from the Paris Games. The 27-year-old crossed the finish line in a time of 1

Associated Press Oct 18, 2024, 10:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Isabeau Levito channeled her inner Holly Golightly in a stylish performance set to music from the film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” on Friday night to lead after the short program at Skate America, the opening event of figure skating’s Grand Prix season. The reigning world