Olympics

Brian Windhorst, ESPN Senior WriterMar 26, 2024, 10:53 AM ET Close ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books Open Extended Reactions USA Basketball announced its four-member 3×3 national team for the Paris Olympics Tuesday. Canyon Barry, former NBA player Jimmer Fredette, Kareem Maddox and Dylan Travis will

Associated Press Mar 25, 2024, 11:35 AM ET Open Extended Reactions GENEVA — Swiss stars Marco Odermatt and Lara Gut-Behrami earned the most money on Alpine skiing’s World Cup circuit this season, although the two overall champions made less than the record $1 million totals of one year ago. Odermatt again won 13 races to

Mar 24, 2024, 10:34 AM ET Open Extended Reactions British ultrarunner Jasmin Paris became the first woman ever to finish the Barkley Marathons on Friday, completing one of the most challenging ultramarathons in the world with 99 seconds to spare in the 60-hour cut-off. Paris was one of five ultrarunners to complete the annual race

ESPN News Services Mar 24, 2024, 09:15 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Swiss standout Marco Odermatt earned his fourth World Cup crystal globe of the season Sunday in anticlimactic circumstances as the final race was canceled due to bad weather. The start of the men’s downhill was pushed back several times because of snow and

Associated Press Mar 23, 2024, 10:51 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MONTREAL — American figure skating star Ilia Malinin is a world champion — and a world-record holder. Malinin put on a dominant display that included a jaw-dropping six quad jumps — including his patented quad axel — to snag the men’s singles crown Saturday

Associated Press Mar 24, 2024, 12:50 AM ET Open Extended Reactions ATHENS, Ga. — Virginia won the women’s swimming and diving championships on Saturday night at the Jack Bauerle Pool at Gabrielsen Natatorium. It was the fourth straight title for the top-ranked Cavaliers, who scored 527.5 points to finish well ahead of the 441 scored

ESPN News Services Mar 23, 2024, 08:14 AM ET Open Extended Reactions On a surprising final day of the women’s World Cup season, Cornelia Huetter won the downhill race to clinch her first season title and deny Lara Gut-Behrami her fourth this week. Huetter had started Saturday’s race fourth in the discipline standings, behind Austrian

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Mar 22, 2024, 10:41 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Margzetta Frazier used to feel badly that her younger sister eMjae had followed her into gymnastics. With a four-year age difference between the two, eMjae naturally gravitated to whatever her big sister was doing. But this was different. Gymnastics was all-encompassing and left

Associated Press Mar 22, 2024, 06:33 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria — Lara Gut-Behrami won the World Cup season title in super-G for the fifth time on Friday, doing just enough by placing seventh in the final race won by the 2018 Olympic champion Ester Ledecka. The 32-year-old Gut-Behrami needed to finish eighth

Mar 21, 2024, 08:39 AM ET Open Extended Reactions There’s no doubt that two-time defending national champ Oklahoma has dominated the NCAA gymnastics season so far. The Sooners spent the regular season ranked No. 1 overall every week, and are currently first on vault, bars and beam, and second on floor. But No. 2 California

Associated Press Mar 20, 2024, 07:14 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MONTREAL — Canadian pair Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps put forth an electrifying performance to place first in the short program at the world figure skating championships on Wednesday. Stellato-Dudek of Chicago and Deschamps of Quebec shattered their season best with a 77.48 score

Mar 19, 2024, 05:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Former NHL All-Star forward Rick Nash has been named general manager for Canada’s national men’s hockey team at this year’s world championship, Hockey Canada announced Tuesday. Among the committee members who selected Nash for the tournament, which will be held May 10-26 in Prague and Ostrava,

ESPN News Services Mar 19, 2024, 08:56 AM ET Open Extended Reactions GENEVA — Facing a Russia-organized potential rival to the Olympics, the International Olympic Committee urged sports and political leaders Tuesday not to take part in the Friendship Games due to launch weeks after the Summer Games in Paris. The IOC denounced diplomatic moves

ESPN News Services Mar 18, 2024, 04:04 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Five-time Olympic champion Laura Kenny said Monday she is retiring from professional cycling. Kenny, Britain’s most decorated female Olympian, won titles at the London, Rio and Tokyo Games and also picked up seven World Championship crowns. Kenny, 31, gave birth to her second

Associated Press Mar 17, 2024, 10:50 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BRISBANE, Australia — Brisbane Olympics organizers have scrapped plans to demolish and rebuild an iconic cricket ground as the centerpiece of the 2032 Games while also rejecting a review panel’s recommendation for a new stadium in city parklands. Queensland state’s Premier Steven Miles instead

Associated Press Mar 17, 2024, 08:29 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria — Lara Gut-Behrami has completed half of her mission to win four crystal globes this Alpine skiing World Cup season. And the Swiss star hasn’t even had to show her best skiing yet. Gut-Behrami secured the overall and giant slalom titles Sunday

Associated Press Mar 16, 2024, 09:59 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria — For Mikaela Shiffrin, the award for the best slalom skier this season is different from the 15 crystal globes the American star won earlier in her career. This one, for a change, doesn’t feel like the end of a season. Shiffrin

Associated Press Mar 15, 2024, 03:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions AIGLE, Switzerland — Four-time Olympic cyclist Christos Volikákis tested positive for doping in retests of samples from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, the International Cycling Union said Friday. Volikákis won medals for Greece in track cycling at world and European championships but not