Olympics

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

Associated Press Mar 14, 2024, 02:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BOSTON — Some of the top also-rans from the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials are coming to Boston. Elkanah Kibet, who missed the men’s podium by 5 seconds in a personal best 2 hours, 10 minutes, 2 seconds, will run on April 15 in Boston,

Mar 14, 2024, 07:43 AM ET Open Extended Reactions GENEVA — The Russian Olympic Committee will not boycott this year’s Paris Games, its president said Thursday, despite restrictions on athletes imposed by the International Olympic Committee as punishment for the invasion of Ukraine. “We will never take the path of boycotting [the Games]. We will

ESPN News Services Mar 13, 2024, 01:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — NFL legend Peyton Manning and singer Kelly Clarkson will bring a new flavor to NBC Universal’s upcoming Paris Olympics coverage this summer. Manning and Clarkson are expected to join Mike Tirico to host the opening ceremony, the network announced Tuesday

Mar 12, 2024, 07:03 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency said Tuesday he remained skeptical and concerned about Russia’s anti-doping practices as some of the country’s athletes prepare to compete as neutrals at the Paris Summer Olympics. Speaking at the WADA Annual Symposium in Lausanne, WADA

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Mar 11, 2024, 02:11 PM ET Open Extended Reactions In a preview of a future SEC showdown, Arkansas hosted Oklahoma on Sunday for the first time in five years. And, even with 9,771 fans in attendance — the third-biggest crowd in Razorbacks history — the Sooners proved just how good they are,

Mar 11, 2024, 10:48 AM ET Open Extended Reactions March 11 (Reuters) – Athletes from Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Portugal will face more stringent out-of-competition (OOC) testing to be eligible for the Paris Olympics as their national testing programs are not sufficient, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Monday. The decision comes after the

Associated Press Mar 10, 2024, 06:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions INZELL, Germany — Jordan Stolz became the youngest allround speedskating world champion since Eric Heiden and the first American to win the title since Shani Davis, capping a dominating performance Sunday with the highest points total ever. The 19-year-old Stolz started the day with