Olympics

9:49 AM ET Associated Press BOSTON — The Boston Marathon has agreed to a 10-year sponsorship deal with Bank of America that organizers hope will allow the world’s oldest and most prestigious annual 26.2-mile road race to grow over the next decade while maintaining its historic character. Financial terms of the deal announced Monday were

9:10 AM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Mexico has declared its desire to host the Summer Olympics in 2036 or 2040 and says it already has most of the sports infrastructure required. Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and Mexican Olympic Committee president María José Alcalá met Friday with International Olympic Committee president Thomas

6:08 AM ET Associated Press SAITAMA, Japan — Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States won their first ice dance title at the figure skating world championships on Saturday. First after the rhythm dance, Chock and Bates finished first in the free dance at Saitama Super Arena with 134.07 points for a total

10:08 AM ET Associated Press SAITAMA, Japan — Kaori Sakamoto fended off a challenge from South Korea’s Lee Hae-in on Friday to become the first Japanese woman to defend her title at the figure skating world championships. Sakamoto, who led after the short program, made only one mistake in Friday’s free skate at Saitama Super

Mar 24, 2023 Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine renewed its push to keep Russian athletes out of the Olympics on Friday ahead of an International Olympic Committee board meeting next week which is expected to set the framework for their return to international sports events. Vadym Guttsait, who is Ukraine’s sports minister and leads

3:24 PM ET Associated Press CALGARY, Alberta — St. Louis Blues general manager Doug Armstrong will have the same role with Hockey Canada for the upcoming men’s world hockey championships in Finland and Latvia. Armstrong was tabbed by Hockey Canada on Thursday as part of a management team that will also see Detroit Red Wings

Mar 23, 2023 ESPN News Services World Athletics has banned transgender women from competing in elite female competitions if they have gone through male puberty, the sport’s governing body said Thursday. Organization president Sebastian Coe said at a news conference that the decision by the World Athletics Council to exclude transgender women was based “on

7:28 AM ET Associated Press GENEVA — Created to help protect athletes after the USA Gymnastics sexual abuse scandal, the sport’s international investigations agency has set new safeguarding standards with a view to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The Gymnastics Ethics Foundation published a “Gymnasts 2028” strategy Thursday to better protect athletes from harassment and

8:39 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Fifth-year senior Margzetta Frazier stepped out onto the floor, took a deep breath, and struck her opening pose. She whispered, “You’ve got this,” to herself. It was the last regular-season meet of her career as a UCLA Bruins gymnast, and most of the fans that packed Pauley Pavilion were on

7:24 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — The Paris Olympics is putting out a call for 45,000 helpers. Organizers of the 2024 Games are launching a drive this week to recruit tens of thousands of volunteers willing to work without pay at the world’s biggest sports event. And they want the group of volunteers to

4:41 PM ET Associated Press The Paris Olympics is going underground to find a way to keep athletes cool at the 2024 Games without air conditioners. Organizers are planning to use a water-cooling system under the Athletes Village — much like the one that has helped the Louvre Museum cope with the sweltering heat that

Mar 20, 2023 ESPN News Services OBERHOFEN, Switzerland — Mikaela Shiffrin has topped $1 million on the season-ending race prize money list. Shiffrin’s win in a giant slalom Sunday was her 13th World Cup victory since October and lifted her total prize money total to 964,200 Swiss francs ($1.04 million). That set the all-time Alpine

10:43 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” MIAMI — The best No. 9 hitter in the world helped send Team USA to the World Baseball Classic finals. One day after his go-ahead grand slam saved its tournament, Trea Turner

8:29 AM ET Associated Press SOLDEU, Andorra — Mikaela Shiffrin won her 21st career giant slalom at the World Cup finals Sunday as the American standout ended the season with yet another record. The victory moved Shiffrin past Vreni Schneider, a week after matching the Swiss skier’s mark of 20 World Cup giant slalom victories.

10:12 AM ET Associated Press SOLDEU, Andorra — Slovakian skier Petra Vlhova used a frenetic finish on her final run to win the last women’s World Cup slalom of the season Saturday, while Mikaela Shiffrin placed third. Vlhova trailed then-leader Leona Popovic by eight-hundredths of a second at the last split but gained time through

9:00 AM ET Associated Press SOLDEU, Andorra — Norway won the mixed team parallel event at the World Cup Finals on Friday after Timon Haugan beat his Swiss opponent Semyel Bissig in the decisive run. Livio Simonet and Andrea Ellenberger gave Switzerland a 2-1 lead in the final, but Haugan’s triumph handed Norway the victory

6:33 AM ET Associated Press SOLDEU, Andorra — Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami won the women’s World Cup super-G title Thursday while Mikaela Shiffrin finished 14th in her first race since setting the record for most career victories with 87. Gut-Behrami had a near-flawless run on the Aliga course to win the final super-G of the

8:14 AM ET Associated Press SOLDEU, Andorra — Swiss skier Marco Odermatt won the men’s super-G at the World Cup Finals on Thursday to close in on the 23-year-old record for most points in a single season. The victory raised Odermatt’s tally to 1,942 points, leaving him 58 short of the all-time mark set by