Olympics

ESPN News Services Jul 2, 2024, 07:44 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Coach Javier Mascherano included four World Cup winners in the squad he announced Tuesday for Argentina‘s squad at the Olympics in Paris later this summer. Manchester City striker Julián Álvarez and veteran Benfica defender Nicolás Otamendi were among those names. As expected, Lionel
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Associated Press Jul 2, 2024, 11:25 AM ET Open Extended Reactions VALLOIRE, France — Uphill. Downhill. And everywhere else in between. Tadej Pogacar is dominating cycling like few riders ever have. The Slovenian standout’s latest exploit came in the fourth stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday, when he attacked near the top of
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Associated Press Jun 30, 2024, 12:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BOLOGNA, Italy — It took only two days into the Tour de France to show that Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard are in a class of their own. Pogacar attacked from the chasing peloton up the second ascent of the short but brutally steep
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Associated Press Jun 29, 2024, 12:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions RIMINI, Italy — Two-time podium finisher Romain Bardet won the opening stage of the Tour de France and claimed the yellow jersey on Saturday as cycling’s biggest race began in Italy for the first time. Combined with severe heat, one of the most challenging
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Associated Press Jun 27, 2024, 11:56 PM ET Open Extended Reactions EUGENE, Ore. — Sha’Carri Richardson never made it to the start, let alone the finish, of the 200 meters at the last Olympic trials. At these trials, even in the opening round of what’s really her second-best race, she flashed another glimpse of the
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ESPN News Services Jun 26, 2024, 10:16 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Double Olympic sprint champion Elaine Thompson-Herah has withdrawn from the Jamaican trials because of an Achilles injury and will not defend her 100-meter and 200-meter titles at the Paris Games in August. Thompson-Herah, who will turn 32 on Friday, is one of the
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Associated Press Jun 25, 2024, 07:53 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WASHINGTON — U.S. Olympic athletes have lost faith in the World Anti-Doping Agency to rid their sports of cheaters ahead of next month’s Summer Games in Paris, two former gold medalists said Tuesday in prepared testimony before a House subcommittee. The comments by Michael
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Associated Press Jun 25, 2024, 03:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CALGARY, Alberta — Jon Cooper has been named Canada’s coach for upcoming international play, including the 2026 Olympics in Milan. Hockey Canada announced Tuesday the two-time Stanley Cup-winning coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning also will be behind the bench for the NHL’s Four
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Associated Press Jun 23, 2024, 11:12 PM ET Open Extended Reactions EUGENE, Ore. — The red running suit, the white pearls and the gold medal said it all. Noah Lyles is the flashiest, and the fastest, sprinter in the United States — maybe even the world. We’ll all get to find out later this summer
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Associated Press Jun 23, 2024, 10:56 PM ET Open Extended Reactions KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Delaney Schnell earned her second Olympic berth with a victory in the women’s 10-meter platform at the U.S. diving trials on Sunday. Carson Tyler will also be doubling up, becoming the first American since 2000 to qualify in both individual events.
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Jun 23, 2024, 05:25 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Molly Caudery set a new British record in women’s pole vault on Saturday. Getty Britain’s Molly Caudery set the world’s leading height of the year and broke the British record in women’s pole vault at the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting in Toulouse, France, on Saturday.
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