Olympics

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

Feb 29, 2024, 03:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Salt Lake City officially submitted its bid to host the 2034 Winter Olympics on Thursday with officials hailing the moment as a “monumental day.” Even with no other cities in the running for the 2034 Games, Salt Lake City organizers have been cautious in their approach

Associated Press Feb 28, 2024, 07:40 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SAN DIEGO — With American sailors in an Olympic slump, two-time medalist JJ Fetter is calling for the resignations of U.S. Sailing’s CEO, president and any other board member who supports a federal lawsuit against a sailing foundation and three of its principals, including

Feb 28, 2024, 06:27 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — A bag containing a computer and two memory sticks with data about the Paris Olympics has been lost by a city hall engineer and may have been stolen, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Wednesday. A theft investigation has been handed to transport police following

Associated Press Feb 27, 2024, 01:41 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MONACO — An Olympic track coach who tried to force Krystsina Tsimanouskaya home from the Tokyo Games to Belarus where she feared for her safety was banned from the sport for five years Tuesday. Yury Maisevich’s actions in Tokyo were adjudged to be a

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Feb 26, 2024, 02:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions On Friday night, moments after Florida’s Payton Richards was carried off the floor after sustaining an injury on her opening tumbling pass, all eyes were on Leanne Wong as she prepared to close out the competition against LSU. Needing a 9.825 to seal

Associated Press Feb 26, 2024, 07:16 AM ET Open Extended Reactions AIGLE, Switzerland — American women’s cycling team Cynisca was punished by the sport’s governing body Monday for trying to enter an international race by deceiving organizers. The International Cycling Union said a team official told a mechanic “to wear a rider’s clothes and a

Associated Press Feb 26, 2024, 06:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions KVITFJELL, Norway — Two-time Olympic medalist Ragnhild Mowinckel said Monday she will stop her ski racing career at the end of the season. “I think 8-year-old Ragnhild would be very proud of 31-year-old Ragnhild,” the Norwegian racer said in a video message on her

ESPN News Services Feb 25, 2024, 07:21 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Canada’s Christopher Morales Williams raced to a world indoor record in the 400 meters at the SEC championships Saturday in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The 19-year-old Georgia sophomore flew to a time of 44.49 seconds to break the previous mark of 44.57 set by American