Olympics

Associated Press Jan 25, 2025, 12:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions WICHITA, Kan. — Amber Glenn was disappointed but not defeated after her short program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, the reigning champion defiantly vowing to “go on the attack” when she returned to the ice for the free skate Friday night. She did

D’Arcy Maine Jan 24, 2025, 09:43 AM ET Open Extended Reactions CECILE CANQUETEAU-LANDI DIDN’T know what to think when she heard that Georgia had dismissed head coach Courtney Kupets Carter the night before the NCAA championship meet last April. Kupets Carter had been in the role for seven largely subpar seasons after a spectacular career

Associated Press Jan 23, 2025, 09:35 AM ET BANGKOK — The boxer who became Thailand’s first Olympic gold medalist was convicted of sexual assault charges involving a minor and sentenced on Thursday to just over three years in prison. Somluck Kamsing, 52, was sentenced by the provincial court in Khon Kaen, his home province, to

Associated Press Jan 21, 2025, 04:54 PM ET The U.S. Center for SafeSport will add a morals clause to its code of conduct, and the CEO will start interviewing job candidates herself in the wake of the arrest of a former investigator who was charged with rape and other sex crimes. The center held a

Associated Press Jan 20, 2025, 12:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova will miss the Alpine skiing world championships next month after a setback in her recovery from a knee injury and is already focusing on the 2026 Winter Games, her team said Monday. Vlhova has been Mikaela Shiffrin’s main rival

Associated Press Jan 19, 2025, 07:11 AM ET Open Extended Reactions CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Lindsey Vonn fell while on pace for a top-five finish at a World Cup super-G on Sunday to mark the second time she has gone down in four days during her comeback to ski racing at age 40. Again, the

Associated Press Jan 18, 2025, 04:16 PM ET Open Extended Reactions One-time Olympic gymnast Yul Moldauer says he was suspended 16 months by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency after he missed three drug tests within a 12-month period. Moldauer, a member of the 2020 U.S. Olympic team, the 2017 national champion and a two-time world championship

Associated Press Jan 18, 2025, 08:21 AM ET Open Extended Reactions CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Sofia Goggia solidified her status as the favorite for another downhill gold by winning Saturday for the fourth time on the course for next year’s Olympics. Lindsey Vonn, meanwhile, still has some work to do before she reaches the podium

Associated Press Jan 18, 2025, 07:48 AM ET Open Extended Reactions WENGEN, Switzerland — Italian downhiller Dominik Paris topped 96 mph in a World Cup race Saturday to reach one of the fastest speeds ever seen on the Alpine ski circuit. The 35-year-old veteran racer passed a speed check at 154.99 kph (96 mph) on

Associated Press Jan 18, 2025, 07:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Two-time Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard is calling for a ban of the controversial carbon monoxide rebreathing method used by athletes to measure their performances. Speaking to Le Monde newspaper, the Visma-Lease a Bike rider said in an interview published Saturday

Associated Press Jan 17, 2025, 08:19 AM ET Open Extended Reactions BOSTON — A gold medal awarded to the winner of the 110-meter hurdles at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, the first Games hosted on U.S. soil, is being auctioned off as part of hundreds of lots of memorabilia representing various Olympics over the decades.

Alyssa Roenigk, ESPN Senior WriterJan 17, 2025, 07:55 AM ET Close Alyssa Roenigk is a senior writer for ESPN whose assignments have taken her to six continents and caused her to commit countless acts of recklessness. (Follow @alyroe on Twitter). Open Extended Reactions THIS IS WHERE she figured it out. Twenty-one years ago, Lindsey Vonn,

ESPN News Services Jan 16, 2025, 06:36 AM ET Open Extended Reactions CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Lindsey Vonn fell toward the end of a World Cup downhill training run on Thursday and appeared slightly banged up. Vonn got back up and skied to the finish area on the Olympia delle Tofane course. She did not

Associated Press Jan 15, 2025, 03:07 PM ET Heinz Kluetmeier, an award-winning photojournalist whose portfolio includes iconic Olympic images of the “Miracle On Ice” in 1980 and Michael Phelps’ “Miracle Finish” in 2008, has died. He was 82. Kluetmeier died Tuesday due to complications from Parkinson’s disease and a stroke, according to his longtime employer,

Associated Press Jan 14, 2025, 12:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions World silver medalist Isabeau Levito withdrew from next week’s U.S. Figure Skating championships because of a foot injury on Tuesday, putting the Olympic hopeful’s chances of participating in the world championships in question. Levito has not competed since placing third at Skate America in

Associated Press Jan 14, 2025, 08:02 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Some of the medals from the Paris Olympics seem to be quickly losing their shine. The French mint told The Associated Press on Tuesday that it is replacing a number of medals from the 2024 Paris Games and Paralympics after athletes complained that they

Jan 13, 2025, 06:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions OKLAHOMA CITY — Just days after Jordan Chiles became the NCAA champion on floor in the spring of 2023, she already knew what music she wanted to use for her next collegiate routine. She could even envision the choreography and some of the moves. There was

Associated Press Jan 13, 2025, 06:25 AM ET An ex-cop fired from his job as an investigator at the U.S. Center for SafeSport for allegedly stealing money seized at a drug bust has been arrested again, this time charged with rape and sex trafficking. Jason Krasley, a former police officer in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was arrested