Olympics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Mar 4, 2024, 04:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The No. 3 California Golden Bears had the chance to get one step closer to their goal of the Pac-12 regular-season title on Saturday — but they knew it wasn’t going to be easy. At home, in a showdown against No. 4 Utah,

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

Associated Press Mar 3, 2024, 05:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions GLASGOW, Scotland — Bahamas runner Devynne Charlton broke her own 60-meter hurdles world record at the world athletics indoor championships Sunday. Charlton won in 7.65 seconds and took 0.02 off the record she set in New York on Feb. 11, which was matched by

Associated Press Mar 3, 2024, 08:37 AM ET Open Extended Reactions KVITFJELL, Norway — Federica Brignone won a stop-start women’s World Cup super-G disrupted by fog on Sunday, while Lara Gut-Behrami extended her lead in the discipline and overall standings. Gut-Behrami was second in Kvitfjell, 0.61 seconds behind Brignone, who is third in the discipline

Mar 2, 2024, 08:41 AM ET Open Extended Reactions GLASGOW, Scotland — Miltiadis Tentoglou threatened to quit the long jump shortly after winning the world indoor title Saturday, saying he would change events if the sport implements a rule change intended to eliminate foul jumps. The amendment World Athletics is proposing involves introducing a take-off

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Mar 1, 2024, 03:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MARIE-SOPHIE BOGGASCH KNEW “absolutely nothing” about Alaska — the state or the school — before she arrived in Anchorage for her official recruiting visit in 2012. She was a talented elite gymnast in Germany, finishing as high as 12th in the national championships

Mar 1, 2024, 06:40 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Lithuania’s 2012 Olympic breaststroke gold medalist and Paris 2024 hopeful Ruta Meilutyte has undergone foot surgery and is expected to resume training in early April, her country’s swimming federation said. Meilutyte is the world-record holder and reigning world champion in the 50-meter breaststroke, which is not