Olympics

Associated Press Jan 18, 2024, 03:31 PM ET Shawn Barber, the Canadian pole vault record holder and 2015 world champion, has died from medical complications. He was 29. Barber died Wednesday at home in Kingwood, Texas, his agent, Paul Doyle, confirmed to The Associated Press. A cause of death was not yet known. Barber had

Associated Press Jan 18, 2024, 11:52 AM ET Open Extended Reactions KITZBUEHEL, Austria — German downhill skier Thomas Dressen is retiring at the age of 30 because of the lingering effects of injuries. Dressen has five career wins in the World Cup, all in downhill, and placed a career-high second in the season-long downhill standings

Associated Press Jan 18, 2024, 09:19 AM ET Open Extended Reactions INNSBRUCK, Austria — Downhill racer Aleksander Aamodt Kilde is having a second operation Thursday five days after his shocking crash and airlifted exit from Switzerland’s signature World Cup event. The former World Cup overall champion, and longtime partner of American star Mikaela Shiffrin, posted

Associated Press Jan 17, 2024, 06:27 PM ET ZURICH — The International Ice Hockey Federation said Wednesday that Israel will be able to play in an upcoming tournament after previously barring its national team from the event over security concerns. The sport’s world governing body announced Israel can take part in the Division III under-20

Associated Press Jan 16, 2024, 09:33 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Lauren Jackson’s international basketball career with the Australian national team will have at least one more chapter to it. The 42-year-old three-time WNBA MVP, who has won four Olympic medals with Australia, was announced as part of the Opals team that will play in

Associated Press Jan 16, 2024, 05:48 PM ET Open Extended Reactions FLACHAU, Austria — Mikaela Shiffrin celebrated an emotional win in a women’s World Cup night race Tuesday, edging out Slovakian skier Petra Vlhova in another gripping duel of their ongoing slalom rivalry. The American ski star trailed Vlhova by 0.07 seconds after the first

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Jan 16, 2024, 08:50 AM ET Open Extended Reactions We’re officially through Week 2 of the 2024 NCAA gymnastics season and if there’s one thing we’ve learned so far, it’s that Oklahoma remains the team to beat. The Sooners, the reigning two-time NCAA champions, opened the year with a dominant performance during

Associated Press Jan 15, 2024, 10:44 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — French ski star Alexis Pinturault will undergo knee surgery next week after sustaining a season-ending injury during a World Cup super-G race, the French skiing federation said Monday. Pinturault, the overall World Cup champion in 2021 and a three-time Olympic medalist, crashed

Associated Press Jan 14, 2024, 09:13 AM ET Open Extended Reactions WENGEN, Switzerland — World Cup slalom leader Manuel Feller denied the Norwegian men an emotional win Sunday, one day after their team leader, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, crashed in downhill and was airlifted from the Wengen course. Feller edged Atle Lie McGrath for victory for

Jan 14, 2024, 09:50 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Kenyan runner Agnes Ngetich broke the 10-kilometer world record in Valencia, Spain, on Sunday, shaving 28 seconds off the previous mark and becoming the first woman to run the distance in under 29 minutes. Ngetich clocked a time of 28:46, breaking Yalemzerf Yehualaw’s road mixed race

Associated Press Jan 13, 2024, 04:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions KAUNAS, Lithuania — Loena Hendrickx’s wait for a major figure skating gold medal ended Saturday with a victory at the European figure skating championships. Hendrickx had placed second at the world and European championships but finally finished top of the podium with a high-energy

Associated Press Jan 12, 2024, 09:27 AM ET Open Extended Reactions ZURICH — The International Ice Hockey Federation said Friday that it could allow Israel to play in some upcoming world championship tournaments after earlier indicating that Israeli teams would be barred over concerns about security at the events. The IIHF said Wednesday that “Israel

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Jan 12, 2024, 06:25 AM ET Open Extended Reactions There will be no shortage of compelling storylines and entertaining routines to watch as the second weekend of NCAA gymnastics begins, with notable teams like Florida opening their season. And this Olympic year, there’s a unique group of gymnasts to keep your eye

Jan 11, 2024, 10:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Isaac Howard knows how to make an impression. At the 2022 NHL draft, when he was selected 31st overall by the Tampa Bay Lightning, Howard wore a vivid white suit, a blue turtleneck and a gold chain, tying it all together with an American-flag belt buckle.

Associated Press Jan 10, 2024, 08:55 PM ET Dmitry Feld, who spent nearly four decades with USA Luge as a coach and executive, died Wednesday because of complications from leukemia. He was 68. His death was announced by USA Luge, which received word from Feld’s wife of his passing. Feld died at a hospital in

Jan 10, 2024, 08:05 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Former Olympic fencing champion Laura Flessel and world swimming champion Camille Lacourt will head two of the 69 collective relays of torchbearers for the Paris 2024 Olympics, organizers said Wednesday. Some 11,000 people will carry the Olympic torch, and among them, 3,000 will do

Jan 9, 2024, 08:26 AM ET A total of 192 Ukrainian athletes have signed an open letter on Tuesday addressed to French President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo asking them to exclude Russia from this summer’s Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) rejected a blanket ban when it confirmed in December that

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Jan 8, 2024, 12:49 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Mary Lou Retton said she “faced death in the eyes” during her recent bout with a rare form of pneumonia. Retton, 55, was hospitalized and in intensive care in October after being unable to breathe on her own. Her