Olympics

Associated Press Jun 8, 2024, 06:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ROME — The Paris Olympics are less than 50 days away and defending 100-meter champion Marcell Jacobs still hasn’t dipped under the 10-second mark in nearly two years. He’s got another gold medal to hang around his neck, though. Jacobs clocked a season-best 10.02

Associated Press Jun 8, 2024, 10:05 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Caitlin Clark won’t be headed to the Paris Olympics, a source told ESPN, confirming multiple reports. Clark has international experience with USA Basketball at a younger level, but she wasn’t able to make the national training camp in Cleveland after she was invited because

Associated Press Jun 7, 2024, 05:51 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ROME — Former world champion Kristjan Ceh of Slovenia won the discus throw on the opening night of the European athletics championships Friday. Ceh’s throw reached 68.08 meters to put him ahead of Lukas Weisshaidinger of Austria (67.70) and Mykolas Alekna (67.48), the Lithuanian

Jun 7, 2024, 04:18 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Spain’s Laura Garcia-Caro learned the hard way to wait until the finish line to celebrate after missing out on a medal when she was overtaken by Ukraine’s Lyudmila Olyanovska in the 20km race walk at the European Athletics Championships on Friday. Garcia-Caro, in third place going

Michael Voepel, ESPN.comJun 5, 2024, 09:40 PM ET Close Michael Voepel covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. Open Extended Reactions Jordan Larson, a former Nebraska women’s volleyball star and current Huskers assistant coach, was named

Associated Press Jun 5, 2024, 05:19 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — The organizing committee for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics has hired retired Army Lt. Gen. Reynold Hoover as its CEO. In a news release announcing the move Wednesday, the committee said, “Hoover’s appointment underscored LA28’s heightened focus on operations and delivery.”

Alexa Philippou, ESPNJun 5, 2024, 02:27 PM ET Close Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer Open Extended Reactions Cameron Brink, Cierra Burdick, Rhyne Howard

Jun 3, 2024, 05:31 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Kylian Mbappé has not been named in France head coach Thierry Henry’s preliminary 25-man squad for the Olympic Games in Paris this summer. The 25-year-old, who is widely expected to join Real Madrid following the expiry of his contract at Paris Saint-Germain, said on March 22

Alyssa Roenigk, ESPN Senior WriterJun 3, 2024, 10:14 AM ET Close Alyssa Roenigk is a senior writer for ESPN whose assignments have taken her to six continents and caused her to commit countless acts of recklessness. (Follow @alyroe on Twitter). Open Extended Reactions FORT WORTH, Texas — For a record ninth time in her career,

Associated Press Jun 2, 2024, 09:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions FORT WORTH, Texas — There used to be a time when Simone Biles would find “beauty in the blindness” ahead of the Olympics, reveling in not knowing what she didn’t know. That was eight years ago. Back when she was still just a teenager.

Associated Press Jun 1, 2024, 10:56 PM ET Open Extended Reactions FORT WORTH, Texas — Brody Malone has become an expert on many things over the last 15 months while recovering from a knee injury that threatened to derail his chances of returning to the Olympics. Patience. Faith. Diligence. Pain tolerance. The efficacy of certain

Associated Press May 31, 2024, 10:19 PM ET Open Extended Reactions FORT WORTH, Texas — It’s not the skills, otherworldly though they may be, that Simone Biles has displayed so regularly for so long that stand out so much anymore, at least not to the ones who know her best. The question with the gymnastics

Open Extended Reactions One of the top players in the NBA’s 2025 draft class, French guard Nolan Traore, has spurned offers from across the globe to remain in his home country, he told ESPN on Saturday. Traore, a 6-foot-5, 17-year-old playmaker who matriculated from famed Parisian sports academy INSEP, will sign a two-year contract with

Associated Press May 31, 2024, 09:23 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ATLANTA — Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won her first 400-meter hurdles race in nearly two years on Friday, finishing in 52.70 seconds to post the best time of 2024. The 24-year-old world-record holder came to the Edwin Moses Legends Meet hoping simply to run

Associated Press May 30, 2024, 11:50 PM ET Open Extended Reactions FORT WORTH, Texas — Brody Malone is officially back. The two-time national champion surged to the lead at the U.S. men’s gymnastics championships Thursday, posting an all-around total of 85.950 to build a significant lead over Fred Richard and Donnell Whittenburg. The 24-year-old Malone

Associated Press May 30, 2024, 06:25 AM ET Open Extended Reactions There’s no making up for what Olympic hurdler Lashinda Demus lost on the day she finished 0.07 seconds behind a Russian opponent who, everyone found out later, was doping. What the American 400-meter hurdles champion will get is a great day under the Eiffel

Alyssa Roenigk, ESPN Senior WriterMay 29, 2024, 01:31 PM ET Close Alyssa Roenigk is a senior writer for ESPN whose assignments have taken her to six continents and caused her to commit countless acts of recklessness. (Follow @alyroe on Twitter). Open Extended Reactions Three-time Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas has withdrawn from competition at the

Associated Press May 28, 2024, 10:10 AM ET Open Extended Reactions MONACO — Olympic pole vault gold medalist Thiago Braz was banned for 16 months for doping and will miss the Paris Games, track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said Tuesday. Braz, 30, won the Olympic title at his home Rio de Janeiro Games in