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Jun 10, 2021 Serbian volleyball player Sanja Djurdjevic has been banned for two games after being captured on camera narrowing her eyes with her fingers in response to an opposition player. The incident happened on June 1 during a FIVB Volleyball Women’s Nationals League match in which Serbia were playing Thailand. She made the gesture

5:30 AM ET Twelve-year-old skateboarder Sky Brown is set to become Britain’s youngest ever Summer Olympian after being listed as one of 20 women’s Park qualifiers for the Tokyo Games on Wednesday. Brown finished second in a Tokyo Games qualifier in May, almost a year after suffering life-threatening injuries in a training fall. 1 Related

8:04 PM ET Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. — Arizona has promoted two-time Olympic medalist Bernard Lagat to head cross country coach. Lagat had served as co-interim coach with Doug Keen and Dave Murray after longtime coach James Li retired in November. Murray was the interim coach through the end of the 2020-21 cross country season.

12:09 PM ET Herb Carnegie never played in the NHL. It wasn’t for lack of ability, as he was considered one of the most talented players in Canada’s semi-professional leagues from 1938-54. Rather, he and others believed it was because he was Black. “He had a lot of roadblocks that were connected to racism,” his

12:44 PM ET Associated Press SYDNEY — Australia’s Olympic baseball team has given up trying to qualify for the Tokyo Games because of coronavirus-related travel complications. Baseball Australia’s chief executive Glenn Williams on Wednesday said the “gut-wrenching” decision to withdraw makes Olympic qualification impossible. The final qualifying tournament on June 22-26 was initially due to

3:00 AM ET Great Britain’s Special Olympics body wants to achieve record participation in sport for people with an intellectual disability by 2024. An estimated 1.5 million people in Great Britain live with an intellectual disability. Special Olympics GB said that community has been “disproportionately negatively affected” by the COVID-19 pandemic, both in terms of

8:30 PM ET Associated Press HENGELO, Netherlands — Letesenbet Gidey lowered the women’s 10,000-meter world record on Tuesday, just two days after Sifan Hassan set the mark on the same track. Gidey clocked 29 minutes, 1.03 seconds at the Ethiopian Olympic trials, which are being held in the Netherlands. Tsigie Gebreselama was second in 30:06.01.

6:32 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN RENTON, Wash. — Most of the Seattle Seahawks‘ veteran players are back at team headquarters this week after staying away for much of the voluntary offseason program. For DK Metcalf, that means being back at his day job after his head-turning foray into track and field. The Pro Bowl wide

12:25 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — A former Olympic figure skater has been arrested on charges that he ripped off a program to help struggling small businesses harmed by the coronavirus pandemic, authorities said Tuesday. Luka Klasinc, a 48-year-old Slovenian man, was arrested Monday and awaited an appearance in Manhattan federal court. A

7:50 AM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Olympic sports must do more to convince Japanese people about how much work they have done to organize a safe Tokyo Games, athletics leader Sebastian Coe said Tuesday. In Japan, public opinion has consistently maintained that the Olympics, set to open July 23, should be canceled. This

5:08 PM ET Associated Press COLORADO SPRING, Colo. — Two-time medalists Foluke Akinradewo Gunderson and Jordan Larson headline the 12-player U.S. women’s volleyball team picked to compete at the Olympics in Tokyo. Akinradewo Gunderson and Larson were part of the U.S. team that won a silver medal in 2012 in London and a bronze in

12:50 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A dozen female water polo players who accused their coach of sexual abuse will split nearly $14 million after settling a lawsuit against USA Water Polo and a California club. The athletes alleged that International Water Polo Club and the national governing organization for the sport failed

12:52 PM ET World uneven bars silver medallist Becky Downie has missed out on selection for the Tokyo 2020 Games after being given a special chance to qualify for the British team following the sudden death of her brother. Downie, who had been hoping to compete at her third Olympics at the age of 29,

12:22 PM ET Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Keyshawn Davis’ quest for Olympic gold is back on. Davis and two fellow American boxers were awarded places in the Tokyo Olympics on Monday, allowing Davis to make an improbable return to USA Boxing five months after the touted lightweight turned professional amid conflict with the

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

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 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