Olympics

Associated Press Mar 14, 2024, 02:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BOSTON — Some of the top also-rans from the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials are coming to Boston. Elkanah Kibet, who missed the men’s podium by 5 seconds in a personal best 2 hours, 10 minutes, 2 seconds, will run on April 15 in Boston,
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Mar 14, 2024, 07:43 AM ET Open Extended Reactions GENEVA — The Russian Olympic Committee will not boycott this year’s Paris Games, its president said Thursday, despite restrictions on athletes imposed by the International Olympic Committee as punishment for the invasion of Ukraine. “We will never take the path of boycotting [the Games]. We will
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ESPN News Services Mar 13, 2024, 01:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — NFL legend Peyton Manning and singer Kelly Clarkson will bring a new flavor to NBC Universal’s upcoming Paris Olympics coverage this summer. Manning and Clarkson are expected to join Mike Tirico to host the opening ceremony, the network announced Tuesday
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Mar 12, 2024, 07:03 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency said Tuesday he remained skeptical and concerned about Russia’s anti-doping practices as some of the country’s athletes prepare to compete as neutrals at the Paris Summer Olympics. Speaking at the WADA Annual Symposium in Lausanne, WADA
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Mar 11, 2024, 10:48 AM ET Open Extended Reactions March 11 (Reuters) – Athletes from Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Portugal will face more stringent out-of-competition (OOC) testing to be eligible for the Paris Olympics as their national testing programs are not sufficient, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Monday. The decision comes after the
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Associated Press Mar 10, 2024, 06:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions INZELL, Germany — Jordan Stolz became the youngest allround speedskating world champion since Eric Heiden and the first American to win the title since Shani Davis, capping a dominating performance Sunday with the highest points total ever. The 19-year-old Stolz started the day with
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Associated Press Mar 10, 2024, 10:19 AM ET Open Extended Reactions ARE, Sweden — All Mikaela Shiffrin has been looking for in her first race back after a six-week injury layoff was “good skiing.” What she got, though, was even by the American star’s standards “an insane way to return.” Shiffrin made a triumphant comeback
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ESPN News Services Mar 10, 2024, 12:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions American cyclist Matteo Jorgenson won the Paris-Nice stage race for the first time on Sunday, with Belgian Remco Evenepoel clinching the final stage to finish second overall. Jorgenson, 24, who races for the Visma-Lease team and lives in Nice, secured the biggest victory
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Mar 9, 2024, 12:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The 50-kilometer women’s classic cross-country race in and around Oslo’s famous Holmenkollen stadium Saturday was marred by drunken brawls among the spectators. Norwegian broadcaster NRK reported that several fights broke out, with some fans storming the barriers toward the ski slope and falling over a fence
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Associated Press Mar 9, 2024, 09:31 AM ET Open Extended Reactions ARE, Sweden — Italian skier Federica Brignone used a blistering second run to win the season’s penultimate women’s World Cup giant slalom Saturday and stay in contention for the discipline title. Brignone needed to gain at least 36 points more than GS standings leader
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Associated Press Mar 8, 2024, 12:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Mikaela Shiffrin is no longer challenging for a women’s record-tying sixth World Cup overall title this month and on Friday praised standings leader Lara Gut-Behrami for her “stunning” skiing. Shiffrin set out her limited race plans for the rest of the season in an
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Associated Press Mar 7, 2024, 06:21 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SALZBURG, Austria — Brazil has a top Winter Olympics medal prospect in Alpine skiing after the World Cup slalom champion last season, Lucas Braathen, announced on Thursday he will start to compete for his mother’s home nation. Braathen, whose father is Norwegian, split from
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Mar 7, 2024, 03:49 AM ET Open Extended Reactions INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — World No. 4 Daniil Medvedev says he is excited about competing at the Paris Olympics and will follow the rules as a neutral athlete after the sport’s governing body announced its decision on players from Russia and Belarus on Wednesday. The International
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Mar 6, 2024, 04:33 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Russian and Belarusian tennis players will be allowed to enter the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris as neutrals, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) confirmed Wednesday. The ITF said players from Russia and Belarus would be allowed to enter in “an individual and neutral capacity” if
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Associated Press Mar 5, 2024, 06:32 AM ET Open Extended Reactions MONTREAL — Less than five months before the Paris Olympics, the World Anti-Doping Agency suspended work at the only approved testing laboratory in Africa late Monday. WADA said accreditation for the lab in Bloemfontein, South Africa, was removed for up to six months because
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Associated Press Mar 4, 2024, 09:39 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Mikaela Shiffrin’s return from her downhill crash is still on schedule for this weekend in Sweden, though the American standout might enter only one of the two World Cup races at the resort in Are. “Mikaela is improving in slalom and feels that the
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