Olympics

9:48 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Simone Biles toned it down. A little, anyway. And soared even higher. The 24-year-old gymnastics superstar claimed her record seventh U.S. title Sunday night, delivering another stunning — and stunningly easy — performance that served little doubt the pressure surrounding her bid to become the first

8:25 PM ET Associated Press LEEDS, England — Alistair Brownlee conceded Sunday that his hopes of becoming a three-time Olympic champion are over after he was disqualified from the World Triathlon Series event in Leeds for an incident in the water. The 33-year-old Brownlee, who won Olympic gold medals in 2012 and 2016, now appears

12:29 PM ET Associated Press HENGELO, Netherlands — Sifan Hassan set a world record by running the 10,000 meters in 29 minutes, 6.82 seconds at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games on Sunday. The 28-year-old Dutch athlete, back in the same stadium where she set her European record of 29:36.67 in the 10,000 last October, shaved more

11:53 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Monica Puig, the reigning Olympic gold medalist in women’s tennis, announced she would be missing the upcoming Tokyo Games, as well as the remainder of the 2021 season, due to recent shoulder surgery. “About a week ago I underwent my second shoulder surgery to repair my rotator cuff and biceps

12:29 AM ET Associated Press PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Todd Frazier and his American teammates celebrated, dousing each other as if they had won the World Series. “Playing for your country, it’s the coolest thing in the world,” the 35-year-old third baseman said. The United States qualified for the Olympic baseball tournament on its

10:57 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Brody Malone’s summer calendar might be filling up quickly. The 21-year-old won his first U.S. men’s gymnastics title on Saturday night, shaking off an early miscue on parallel bars to post a two-day total of 170.700. The two-time NCAA champion’s victory gives him plenty of momentum

4:35 PM ET Associated Press RIGA, Latvia — Andrew Mangiapane scored two goals to help Canada beat the United States 4-2 on Saturday in the semifinals of hockey’s world championship. Mangiapane has seven goals and four assists in six games since joining Canada midway through the preliminary round. Canada started the tournament with three straight

2:26 PM ET Associated Press Jake Gibb is going back to the Olympics for the fourth time, clinching a spot in the Tokyo beach volleyball field with partner Taylor Crabb. Gibb, 45, will be the oldest volleyball player — beach or indoor — in Olympic history. Beijing gold medalist Phil Dalhausser also will be playing

10:41 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Looks like the rust is gone for Simone Biles. Well, almost. The reigning Olympic and world gymnastics champion put on a dazzling show at the U.S. Championships on Friday night, posting a score of 59.550 that makes her seventh national title a practical certainty. Biles, 24,

Jun 3, 2021 Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Sam Mikulak expected jitters at his first competition in 15 months. What the six-time men’s national gymnastics champion didn’t expect was his body to give out on him. Yet as the 29-year-old walked onto the floor for his fifth event during the first day of the

10:59 PM ET When she stands at the top of the runway, what is she thinking? What does she see? The vaulting table for one, about 25m from where she is, separated by the runway, a platform meant for propulsion. Around her, there are stands and spectators but they begin to blur, the noise in

11:07 AM ET Associated Press AIGLE, Switzerland — The track cycling world championships have been pulled out of Turkmenistan because of the coronavirus pandemic, the International Cycling Union said. The UCI said in a statement late Thursday that the championships “have been canceled in their initial format, at the request of their organizers, as the

9:59 AM ET Associated Press MONACO — Olympic hurdles champion Brianna Rollins-McNeal was banned for five years on Friday in a doping case, ruling her out of this year’s Tokyo Games and the 2024 Paris Games. The Athletics Integrity Unit said the American’s second career ban was for “tampering within the results management process” of

7:03 AM ET The opening ceremonies for the Tokyo Olympics are just about 50 days away, and despite Japan’s battle against a fourth wave of COVID-19, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo 2020 organising committee are adamant the Games will go ahead. Here’s where it all stands ahead of what promises to be a

2:58 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — One of Japan’s best-known Olympians and an executive member of the Japanese Olympic Committee says Tokyo has been “cornered” into holding during the COVID-19 pandemic. In an outspoken editorial published Friday, Kaori Yamaguchi said the International Olympic Committee, the government and local organizers are ignoring widespread opposition to

5:47 PM ET Associated Press PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — The United States will play Canada on Friday night and Venezuela on Saturday for a berth in the Olympic baseball tournament next month. Manager Mike Scioscia’s American team finished the first round 2-0 after its game against Puerto Rico was rained out for the second

2:44 PM ET Associated Press Two-time America’s Cup champion Jimmy Spithill is all for improving diversity and inclusion in sailing, whether it’s along lines of race, gender or socioeconomic status. After all, he needed a bit of help to get going in a sport in which he’s become a superstar. Spithill is in his first

8:13 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Jordan Chiles was just joking when she first started talking to Simone Biles about changing gyms and joining her at the World Champions Centre in Spring, Texas. But the more they talked about it, the more Chiles couldn’t stop thinking about it. She enjoyed training at Naydenov Gymnastics in her