Olympics

Michael Voepel, ESPN.comJun 15, 2024, 10:15 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 Dallas Wings guard Arike Ogunbowale told the “Nightcap” podcast in an episode released Thursday that

Associated Press Jun 15, 2024, 07:05 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The IOC approved 14 athletes from Russia and 11 Belarusians with neutral status to compete at the Paris Olympics in a first list from some sports published Saturday. Five sports — though not tennis, swimming or judo — were assessed by

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Jun 14, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The U.S. Olympic swim trials get underway on Saturday in Indianapolis as the country’s best and fastest in the pool battle it out with tickets to Paris on the line. Held at Lucas Oil Stadium — yes, there will be a pool in

Associated Press Jun 13, 2024, 06:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DALLAS — As a basketball fan, Adam Silver would have loved to have seen Caitlin Clark on the U.S. Olympic women’s team for this summer’s Paris Games. As NBA Commissioner, he understands why it didn’t happen. Clark was not selected for the team that

ESPN News Services Jun 13, 2024, 01:45 PM ET Afghanistan will field a gender-equal team at the Paris Olympics with three women and three men in a largely symbolic move, while no Taliban official will be allowed at the Games, the International Olympic Committee said Thursday. The Olympic body said fielding a gender-equal team was

Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterJun 12, 2024, 07:49 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Les Bouquinistes have been selling their secondhand books by the Seine since the

Jun 12, 2024, 06:12 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Ariarne Titmus says breaking the 200m freestyle world record is a bonus from her unparalleled duel in the pool with compatriot Mollie O’Callaghan. Titmus took the record from O’Callaghan in a stunning battle on Wednesday night at Australia’s Olympic swimming selection trials in Brisbane. The 23-year-old

Jeff Kassouf Jun 11, 2024, 09:31 AM ET Who will make the USWNT’s 18-player roster for the 2024 Olympics? Matt Krohn/USA TODAY Sports Emma Hayes is a few weeks into her official tenure as head coach of the U.S. women’s national team and she already has a pivotal decision to make: She must narrow a talented

Jun 10, 2024, 06:33 PM ET Ariarne Titmus took an experimental approach and Kaylee McKeown just tried not to get disqualified. Editor’s Picks Yet both swim aces threatened world records only to fall just shy at Australia’s Olympic selection trials on Monday night. For Titmus, breaking her own 400m freestyle world record wasn’t on her

Jun 9, 2024, 10:55 PM ET Noemie Fox will join her Olympic gold medal-winning sister Jessica in the Australian canoe team for the Paris Games after a brilliant performance in the kayak cross on the final day of the World Cup meet in Prague. Fox, 27, had to compete in five races just to book

Multiple Contributors Jun 8, 2024, 04:50 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The U.S. Olympic women’s basketball roster for the Paris Games is out, and Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark is not on it. Clark is averaging 16.8 points, 5.3 rebounds, and 6.3 assists through 12 games — strong numbers for any WNBA point guard, let

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