Olympics

5:40 PM ET ESPN News Services RIGA, Latvia — Trevor Moore scored twice in the second period and the United States bounced back from an opening-game loss in a big way on Sunday, defeating Canada, 5-1, at the world hockey championships. Jason Robertson, Adam Clendening and Matt Tennyson also tallied for Team USA, which lost

2:12 PM ET Associated Press CARY, N.C. — Pitchers Homer Bailey, Edwin Jackson and David Robertson, catcher Matt Wieters, infielder Todd Frazier and outfielders Matt Kemp and John Jay were among 28 players announced Sunday for a U.S. training camp ahead of the Americans’ second chance to qualify for the Olympic baseball tournament. Left-hander Clayton

9:24 PM ET Associated Press BEIJING — Twenty-one people running a mountain ultramarathon have died in northwestern China after hail, freezing rain and gale-force winds hit the high-altitude race, state media reported Sunday. After an all-night rescue operation in freezing temperatures involving more than 700 personnel, rescuers were able to confirm that 151 people were

6:50 AM ET Jonathan SelvarajESPN Exactly a year ago, on the occasion of World Wrestling Day, India’s greatest exponent of that sport, Sushil Kumar, had posted an image onto his Twitter account. ‘Happy World wrestling day’ was the caption of the image of one of Sushil’s greatest triumphs. It’s from the final moments of his

9:49 PM ET Associated Press With time on her hands and a world-class gym at her disposal after the 2020 Olympics were postponed, Simone Biles started experimenting almost as a way to stave off the monotony of training. Pretty soon a vault that she occasionally tinkered with for fun — the Yurchenko double pike —

9:24 PM ET Associated Press BEIJING — Rescuers in China say at least 16 people have died and five are missing in extreme weather during a mountain marathon cross-country race in the country’s northwest. The rescue headquarters quoted by the official Xinhua News Agency said hail, freezing rain and gale winds hit the 100-kilometer (60-mile)

5:54 PM ET Associated Press RIGA, Latvia — Jussi Olkinuora made 29 saves, Iiro Pakarinen and Atte Ohtamaa scored and defending champion Finland beat the United States 2-1 on Saturday in their opening game in the world hockey championship. “It’s a good start to the tournament, but we can improve a lot of things,” Pakarinen

7:59 AM ET Jonathan SelvarajESPN On Tuesday this week, javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra posted a short video clip of a practice session on his Instagram page. “86.26, 86.87, 87.25, 84.90 First time over 85 in training” is the caption of the six-second clip. The throws made at the National Institute of Sport in Patiala are

7:25 AM ET Associated Press MONACO — World Athletics has declared 23 Russian track and field athletes eligible to compete under a neutral flag ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. With their national federation under a doping suspension, Russians must apply for individual exemptions to gain “authorized neutral athlete” status after their drug testing records have

6:39 PM ET Associated Press RIGA, Latvia — Matiss Kivlenieks made 38 saves, and host Latvia beat Canada 2-0 on Friday in their world hockey opener. Miks Indrasis opened the scoring with 1.5 seconds left in the first period, beating goaltender Darcy Kuemper between the pads. Oskars Batna made it 2-0 on a tip-in midway

9:53 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — The IOC vice president in charge of the postponed Tokyo Olympics said Friday that the Games would open in just over two months even if the city and other parts of Japan were under a state of emergency because of rising COVID-19 cases. John Coates, speaking from Australia

7:47 PM ET Associated Press Two-time Olympic triple jump champion Christian Taylor underwent surgery to repair a torn Achilles and will miss the Tokyo Games. Taylor was injured during a meet in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on Wednesday. He had surgery Thursday morning in Germany. The 30-year-old Taylor captured gold at the 2012 London Games and

The 2021 Tokyo Olympics might just be the most important campaign in the history of the Australian Boomers, so the selection of the team needs to be right. Though the current iteration of the Boomers may be the envy of the international basketball community because of how purely the team plays, they’ve yet to deliver

4:47 PM ET Associated Press SAO PAULO — The president of the International Volleyball Federation is being investigated in his native Brazil as part of a wider fraud probe launched on Thursday. Rio de Janeiro police and state prosecutors said in a statement that Ary Graça, who has headed FIVB since 2012, and nine other

7:54 AM ET Associated Press GENEVA — Two-time Olympic 800-meter champion David Rudisha will not defend his title at the Tokyo Games. Rudisha’s agent, Michel Boeting, told The Associated Press on Thursday that Tokyo was “out of the question” for Rudisha because of a persistent hamstring problem. The Olympics are set to open on July

4:44 AM ET Former Indian sprinter Milkha Singh has tested positive for COVID-19 and is in isolation at his Chandigarh residence. He is asymptomatic and claims to be in ‘high spirits’. “A couple of our helpers tested positive and so all the family members did the tests. Only I returned positive on Wednesday and I

3:41 PM ET Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria — Lee Evans, the record-setting sprinter who wore a black beret in a sign of protest at the 1968 Olympics, died Wednesday. He was 74. USA Track and Field confirmed Evans’ death. The San Jose Mercury News reported Sunday that Evans’ family had started a fundraiser with hopes

9:04 AM ET Former U.S. women’s national ice hockey team captain Meghan Duggan is joining the New Jersey Devils as a manager of player development. “I’m looking forward to getting to work, and adding value in an area that I’ve committed my entire life to,” Duggan told ESPN. “But I also hope people see this