Olympics

Associated Press Oct 25, 2024, 10:23 PM ET Open Extended Reactions HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Three-time world champion Kaori Sakamoto took the lead after she won the women’s short program at Skate Canada International on Friday with a 74.97-point performance. Japan’s Sakamoto, who is Skate Canada’s defending champion, finished ahead of American Alysa Liu (67.68)

Associated Press Oct 25, 2024, 11:44 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SOELDEN, Austria — Austrian skiing great Marcel Hirscher has confirmed his start in Sunday’s season-opening giant slalom, making his return to competitive skiing after 2,051 days. “Back to the game that we love … I’ve decided, I do this,” Hirscher says in a video

Associated Press Oct 25, 2024, 06:02 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SOELDEN, Austria — Swiss standout Marco Odermatt was named “skier of the year” by the federation of ski journalists on Friday, succeeding Mikaela Shiffrin after she won the award for the third time last year. Odermatt, who won 13 World Cup races on the

Associated Press Oct 24, 2024, 03:49 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Volleyball great Karch Kiraly, who won the first of his three Olympic gold medals as a member of the U.S. indoor team in Los Angeles in 1984, will coach the American men at the Summer Games when they return to LA in 2028. Kiraly

Jeff Kassouf Oct 24, 2024, 07:30 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The Emma Hayes era of the U.S. women’s national team got off to a fairy-tale start this summer, when the Americans returned to the top of the podium in Paris for the program’s fifth Olympic gold medal. Now comes Hayes’ primary assignment. She was

Oct 23, 2024, 02:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Geoff Capes has died at the age of 75. S&G/PA Images via Getty Images Geoff Capes, British strongman, shot put record holder and renowned budgerigar breeder, has died aged 75, his family said on Wednesday. Capes left an indelible mark on British sport, birdkeeping and 1980s popular

Associated Press Oct 22, 2024, 08:17 AM ET Open Extended Reactions GLASGOW, Scotland — Scotland conceived rugby sevens in the 1880s yet it will not feature in the scaled-back 2026 Commonwealth Games hosted by Glasgow. Other sports that have also been dropped include field hockey, triathlon, badminton, Twenty20 cricket, squash, and diving. The Games will

Oct 22, 2024, 02:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Glasgow last hosted the Commonwealth Games in 2014. Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images Glasgow has been awarded the hosting rights for the 2026 Commonwealth Games, organisers announced on Tuesday. The Games were last hosted in Birmingham in 2022, with the next instalment initially due to have been

Oct 21, 2024, 12:40 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LeBron James is one of the most successful basketball players in the sport’s history, earning a myriad of awards and accolades since his NBA debut with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2003. Since then, stints with the Miami Heat and a reunion with Cleveland eventually led him

Oct 20, 2024, 10:48 PM ET Open Extended Reactions During her tenure at UConn, Breanna Stewart established herself as one of the most prolific women’s college basketball players of all time. Since making her professional debut in 2016 with the Seattle Storm, she has become one of the top players in the WNBA. Prior to

Associated Press Oct 19, 2024, 11:01 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Wakaba Higuchi won her first Grand Prix event after more than eight years of trying Saturday night, putting together an error-free program at Skate America to edge Japanese teammate Rinka Watanabe and American star Isabeau Levito. Higuchi finished with 196.93 points at Credit Union

Oct 19, 2024, 02:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions France’s Cassandre Beaugrand recovered from a dreadful start at the women’s triathlon world championship finals in Torremolinos, Spain, on Saturday to add a first world title to her Olympic gold medal from the Paris Games. The 27-year-old crossed the finish line in a time of 1

Associated Press Oct 18, 2024, 10:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Isabeau Levito channeled her inner Holly Golightly in a stylish performance set to music from the film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” on Friday night to lead after the short program at Skate America, the opening event of figure skating’s Grand Prix season. The reigning world

Oct 17, 2024, 04:02 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Two athletes, one from Britain and the other from Mexico, died on Thursday on the first day of the Torremolinos-Andalucia Triathlon Championship Finals, World Triathlon said. Both athletes were competing in the age-group sprint event. Local media reported that the 57-year-old British athlete suffered a cardiac

Associated Press Oct 17, 2024, 03:22 PM ET LOS ANGELES — A former Olympic snowboarder for Canada has been charged with running a drug trafficking ring that shipped vast amounts of cocaine across the Americas and killed several people, authorities said Thursday. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest

Associated Press Oct 16, 2024, 09:43 AM ET Open Extended Reactions BONN, Germany — Yannic Seidenberg, who won the silver medal with the German men’s hockey team at the 2018 Olympics, has had his doping ban cut by 18 months. The 40-year-old forward had filed an appeal against a four-year ban imposed last year over

Associated Press Oct 15, 2024, 09:01 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The president of the suspended Russian Olympic Committee said Tuesday he plans to step down after six years in charge. Stanislav Pozdnyakov’s statement comes just over two months after a delegation of 15 Russians competed at the Paris Olympics as “Individual Neutral Athletes” without

Anthony Gharib, ESPNOct 13, 2024, 04:25 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Noah Lyles proposed to his girlfriend, Junelle Bromfield, on Saturday, he announced in a video posted across his social media accounts. The 2024 Olympic gold medalist in the men’s 100m dash popped the question in front of a bundle of pink flowers shaped into