Olympics

Nov 18, 2024, 05:15 AM ET Open Extended Reactions A new generation of South African sprints stars has emerged since the Paris Olympics, with Bayanda Walaza and Udeme Okon among the leading names, and these teens are eschewing offers from US colleges to stay home for university. Walaza, who won silver at the Olympics 4X100m

ESPN News Services Nov 16, 2024, 08:18 PM ET Bela Karolyi, the charismatic — if polarizing — gymnastics coach who turned young women into champions and the United States into an international power in the sport, has died. He was 82. USA Gymnastics said Karolyi died Friday. No cause of death was given. Karolyi and

Associated Press Nov 16, 2024, 08:34 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LEVI, Finland — American Mikaela Shiffrin earned her record-extending 98th career World Cup win Saturday to give herself the chance to compete for victory No. 100 in front of a home crowd. Regardless of her result in a slalom in Austria next week, Shiffrin

Associated Press Nov 15, 2024, 02:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The PWHL on Friday turned to three-time U.S. Olympian and New Jersey Devils director of player development Meghan Duggan to assist in its hockey operations department. Duggan will serve as a special consultant for the six-team league entering its second season, which opens on

Associated Press Nov 14, 2024, 08:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The leader of USA Track and Field cut through confusion surrounding the 2028 Olympic trials, saying the preference is to hold them in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum several weeks before the actual Olympic track meet takes place there. Max

Associated Press Nov 14, 2024, 08:29 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARK CITY, Utah — Lindsey Vonn is coming out of retirement to rejoin the U.S. Ski Team, she announced Thursday, intending to race again at age 40 — and six years after her most recent Olympics. Vonn is a three-time Olympic medalist, including a

Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — The Premier Lacrosse League is starting a new women’s professional lacrosse league that is set to begin competition in the United States in 2025, three years ahead of the return of lacrosse as an Olympic sport for the first time in eight decades. The Women’s Lacrosse League will debut

Associated Press Nov 12, 2024, 11:05 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Dallas Long, a three-time NCAA shot put champion who won a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, has died. He was 84. He died of natural causes Sunday in Whitefish, Montana, USC said Tuesday after being informed by a family member. No further

Associated Press Nov 12, 2024, 06:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Gable Steveson, who won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, said Tuesday he is coming out of retirement and will return to the University of Minnesota for a fifth and final season of college wrestling. Steveson won gold as a freestyle

Associated Press Nov 12, 2024, 07:06 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Sarah Ourahmoune, a silver medalist at the 2016 Olympic Games, has withdrawn her bid to become president of the French boxing federation, saying she has been the target of vicious racist and sexist attacks. In an open letter published this week, Ourahmoune

Associated Press Nov 10, 2024, 10:28 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BOISE, Idaho — Jocelyne Larocque scored less than 4 minutes into the game, Sarah Nurse added a goal midway through the first period and Canada cruised to a 4-1 win over the United States on Sunday to take a 2-1 lead in the five-game

Associated Press Nov 9, 2024, 01:10 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SALT LAKE CITY — Marie-Phillip Poulin and 17-year-old Chloe Primerano clinched a shootout win Friday night for Canada over the U.S. after the teams were tied 4-4 in regulation. The victory tied the Rivalry Series at a game apiece after Canada won the shootout

Associated Press Nov 9, 2024, 03:20 AM ET Open Extended Reactions TOKYO — Two-time and reigning world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States turned in a dominant free dance Saturday to win the ice dance competition at the NHK Trophy. First after Friday’s rhythm dance, the U.S. champions executed level four

Associated Press Nov 8, 2024, 08:40 AM ET Open Extended Reactions TOKYO — Defending champion Yuma Kagiyama performed a near-flawless routine Friday to lead a Japanese sweep of the men’s figure skating short program at the NHK Trophy. Skating to “The Sound of Silence,” Kagiyama nailed an effortless quadruple salchow on his opening jump and

Associated Press Nov 7, 2024, 01:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SAN JOSE, Calif. — Wisconsin senior Lacey Eden scored two of the United States’ five first-period goals and the Americans routed Canada 7-2 on Wednesday night in the opener of the Rivalry Series. The last time the two teams met, Canada played spoiler on

Nov 6, 2024, 07:06 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MELBOURNE, Australia — Breakdancer Rachael “Raygun” Gunn’s signature kangaroo bounce will not be seen on a competitive stage again after the Australian declared she could not bring herself to battle following the backlash over her Paris Olympic performance. Gunn, a university lecturer, became an overnight sensation

Alyssa Haduck Nov 6, 2024, 09:59 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LIFE HAD NOT been easy for Payton Washington. But on Monday, April 17, 2023, everything seemed possible. That weekend, her all-star cheerleading team was going to compete at The Cheerleading Worlds, and, as perennial contenders, they were likely to win. A few weeks later,

Associated Press Nov 6, 2024, 07:17 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The United States Nordic combined program has been salvaged for the upcoming World Cup season, receiving desperately needed financial help from the International Ski and Snowboard Federation. FIS gave Nordic Combined USA a grant last week, a contingency the Steamboat Springs, Colorado-based nonprofit needed