Olympics

Associated Press Feb 17, 2025, 05:07 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MADRID — The World Anti-Doping Agency on Monday offered an explanation for why top-ranked tennis player Jannik Sinner received a much shorter doping ban than the six-year suspension it handed to a Spanish figure skater in a similar doping case. Spanish media has been

Associated Press Feb 17, 2025, 06:04 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LONDON — Geraint Thomas, the former Tour de France champion who also won gold medals in track cycling for Great Britain at the Olympic Games in 2008 and ’12, announced Monday that this will be his final year as a professional. Thomas, a loyal

Associated Press Feb 16, 2025, 12:29 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LILLEHAMMER, Norway — Francesco Friedrich won two more World Cup bobsled overall titles Sunday, the 21st and 22nd of the German star’s career. Friedrich drove to a second-place finish in the World Cup four-man race, good enough to clinch his seventh consecutive season title

Feb 15, 2025, 03:16 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland — Johannes Thingnes Boe’s blistering win in the men’s 10-kilometer sprint Saturday made him the most successful biathlete at the world championships as he eclipsed Norwegian compatriot Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, and he might not be done yet. The 31-year-old was tied with Bjoerndalen on

Associated Press Feb 15, 2025, 12:49 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Wolfgang Kindl of Austria started his day with a luge World Cup doubles win. He ended it with a piece of luge history. Kindl became the first slider in 32 years to win a men’s singles and doubles race in

Associated Press Feb 14, 2025, 08:43 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BOSTON — Grant Fisher broke his second world indoor record within a week when he shattered a 21-year-old mark in the 5,000 meters on Friday at the BU David Hemery Valentine Invitational. The American crossed the finish line in 12 minutes, 44.09 seconds to

D’Arcy Maine Feb 13, 2025, 10:10 AM ET Open Extended Reactions THE UNDEFEATED OKLAHOMA Sooners arrived in Fort Worth, Texas, last April as the clear favorite to win the national championship. They were the two-time defending champions, had been the top-ranked team in the nation all season and were fresh off their latest conference title.

Associated Press Feb 12, 2025, 06:11 PM ET TORONTO — Jerome Drayton, who finished sixth at the Montreal Olympics, won the 1977 Boston Marathon and held the Canadian men’s marathon record for 43 years, has died at the age of 80. Drayton died unexpectedly on Monday in Toronto, according to Cardinal Funeral Homes. Runners World

Feb 12, 2025, 02:32 PM ET Imane Khelif, who won Paris Olympics boxing gold amid a gender eligibility row, has accused the International Boxing Association of making “false and offensive” accusations after it launched legal action against the IOC for allowing her to compete. The IBA announced in a statement Monday it was filing a

Associated Press Feb 11, 2025, 12:41 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Equestrian rider Eric Lamaze, an Olympic champion in 2008, has been banned from the sport until 2031 after a second four-year doping suspension was imposed at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The court’s judges ordered the Canadian star to serve

Associated Press Feb 11, 2025, 08:39 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria — Mikaela Shiffrin won a record-equaling 15th world championship medal and Breezy Johnson became double world champion Tuesday when the American pair took gold in the new team combined event. Shiffrin was third-fastest in the slalom at the Alpine skiing worlds, just

Associated Press Feb 10, 2025, 04:41 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DENVER — The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee is looking into how a former police officer landed an investigator’s job at the U.S. Center for SafeSport despite sex-crime allegations that littered his past, while also asking whether the center knew the man had

Associated Press Feb 10, 2025, 06:11 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria — Mikaela Shiffrin says she is dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder following a crash in November and will not defend her gold medal in giant slalom at the Alpine skiing world championships. The American holder of a record 99 World Cup wins

ESPN News Services Feb 9, 2025, 01:19 PM ET Open Extended Reactions World Athletics’ experimental change to the long jump made its debut at an ISTAF indoor meet Sunday in Dusseldorf, Germany, when two-time world champion Malaika Mihambo won under the new rule. Mihambo jumped 6.87 meters on her fourth attempt in the absence of

Associated Press Feb 8, 2025, 09:36 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WHISTLER, British Columbia — History for Max Langenhan. History for Felix Loch. Once again, Germany proved its dominance at the luge world championships, finishing off in style Saturday with a two more gold medals, giving the perennial power five wins in seven events over

Associated Press Feb 8, 2025, 07:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria — American skier Breezy Johnson won gold in the women’s downhill at the Alpine skiing world championships Saturday. Johnson finished 0.15 seconds ahead of silver medalist Mirjam Puchner of Austria. Czech skier Ester Ledecka came 0.21 behind in third to take bronze.

ESPN News Services Feb 7, 2025, 08:32 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Marco Odermatt won gold in the men’s super-G at the Alpine skiing world championships Friday, justifying his status as the big prerace favorite. The lauded Swiss standout beat silver medalist Raphael Haaser by one second as the Austrian skier earned the host nation’s

Associated Press Feb 6, 2025, 11:01 PM ET Open Extended Reactions HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Hilary Knight, Hannah Bilka and Kelly Pannek scored in a shootout, goalie Gwyneth Philips was perfect in the tiebreaker and the United States beat Canada 2-1 on Thursday night to set up a decisive Game 5 in the Rivalry Series.