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Associated Press Feb 18, 2024, 07:12 AM ET Open Extended Reactions CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — Austrian downhill specialist Stephanie Venier won a women’s World Cup super-G for the first time Sunday, giving new impetus to the battle for the discipline title as leader Lara Gut-Behrami placed sixth. In a tight race on the Mont Lachaux course,

Associated Press Feb 17, 2024, 04:55 PM ET Open Extended Reactions INDIANAPOLIS — Tyrese Haliburton played a ton of basketball last summer as part of the team that USA Basketball sent to the Philippines for the World Cup. And he’s hoping to play a ton of basketball this summer, too. Haliburton didn’t hesitate when asked

Associated Press Feb 17, 2024, 01:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DOHA, Qatar — Standout swimmers Claire Curzan of the United States and Pan Zhanle of China won their fourth gold medals at the world championships on Saturday. Curzan was in control all the way through the 200-meter backstroke final as she won by 1.26

Associated Press Feb 17, 2024, 08:54 AM ET Open Extended Reactions KVITFJELL, Norway — On a rare day with dominant World Cup skier Marco Odermatt absent from the podium, his teammate Niels Hintermann stepped up to earn Switzerland victory in a downhill on Saturday. Hintermann edged out runner-up Vincent Kriechmayr of Austria by 0.08 seconds

Associated Press Feb 16, 2024, 02:18 PM ET Open Extended Reactions VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Meghan Agosta, who won three gold medals representing Canada at the Olympics, announced Friday she is retiring from hockey. Agosta, 37, played for more than 1½ decades, also winning two International Ice Hockey Federation world championship gold medals and one

Associated Press Feb 16, 2024, 06:34 AM ET Open Extended Reactions CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — Fresh from overtaking the absent Mikaela Shiffrin in the women’s World Cup overall standings, Lara Gut-Behrami won a shortened downhill on Friday to close in on the injured Sofia Goggia in the discipline standings. Gut-Behrami, who is on a four-race winning

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Associated Press Feb 14, 2024, 12:29 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DOHA, Qatar — Siobhán Haughey of Hong Kong captured her first long-course world title, winning the women’s 200-meter freestyle Wednesday at the World Aquatics Championships. Haughey, a three-time champion at the short-course worlds, finally touched first in the big pool after years of close

Associated Press Feb 14, 2024, 07:28 AM ET Open Extended Reactions ALTENBERG, Germany — Swiss bobsled athlete Sandro Michel was in a stable condition in the hospital Wednesday after surgery for injuries suffered when he was thrown to the ice and hit by the sled. Michel was in the Swiss four-man crew piloted by Michael

Alexa Philippou, ESPNFeb 13, 2024, 01:41 PM ET Close Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer Open Extended Reactions Mike Thibault, Kara Lawson and Joni

Associated Press Feb 13, 2024, 12:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DOHA, Qatar – With Katie Ledecky deciding to stay home, Simona Quadarella of Italy romped to another gold medal in women’s 1,500-meter freestyle swimming at the World Aquatics Championships on Tuesday. Quadarella began to pull away from the field around the 500-meter mark and

It was yet another action-packed, history-making weekend in college gymnastics. And perhaps no one epitomized that more than LSU’s Haleigh Bryant. The senior led the Tigers to a 197.625-196.300 road victory over Georgia — and etched her name in the record books (again) with the 13th perfect score of her career. While earning 10.0s is

ESPN News Services Feb 11, 2024, 06:27 PM ET NAIROBI, Kenya — Marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum, who was set to be a superstar of long-distance running and was a top contender for gold at the Olympics in Paris this year, was killed along with his coach in a car crash in Kenya. Their vehicle

Associated Press Feb 11, 2024, 09:35 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SOLDEU, Andorra — Swedish skier Anna Swenn Larsson earned her second career victory Sunday in the first women’s World Cup slalom in nearly 13 years with neither Mikaela Shiffrin nor Petra Vlhova competing. The American star and her Slovakian rival, whose gripping duels have

Associated Press Feb 10, 2024, 02:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DOHA, Qatar — China finished a dominant first week at the World Aquatics Championships with more titles in artistic swimming and diving Saturday to top the medal table with 16 golds out of 29. Cheng Wentao and Shi Haoyu retained their world title in

Associated Press Feb 10, 2024, 09:56 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SOLDEU, Andorra — Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami came from a long way behind to win a women’s World Cup giant slalom by one-hundredth of a second Saturday and overtake the absent Mikaela Shiffrin on top of the overall standings. Gut-Behrami improved from ninth position

Associated Press Feb 9, 2024, 01:23 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The governing body that oversees figure skating on Friday defended its decision to award the bronze medal from the 2022 Beijing Olympics to the Russian squad despite the disqualification of team member Kamila Valieva for a highly publicized doping violation that caused a reshuffling

Feb 9, 2024, 07:30 AM ET Open Extended Reactions DOHA, Qatar — Canadian wunderkind Summer McIntosh has ended Katie Ledecky’s 13-year unbeaten streak in the 800-meter freestyle in a major upset in the lead-up to the Paris Olympics. McIntosh clocked 8 minutes, 11.39 seconds at a sectionals meeting in Orlando, Florida, on Thursday to finish