Olympics

Associated Press Oct 29, 2023, 11:13 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SANTIAGO, Chile — Peru’s Kimberly García thought she set the world record in the women’s 20-kilometer walk race at the Pan American Games. She later found out she didn’t. Organizers said in a statement that the times of the race were annulled due to

Associated Press Oct 29, 2023, 08:28 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SOELDEN, Austria — Strong winds forced the cancellation of the season-opening men’s World Cup giant slalom Sunday after 47 of the 73 skiers in the first run had started. Gusts high up on the Rettenbachferner glacier initially prompted organizers to lower the start gate,

Associated Press Oct 28, 2023, 11:05 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SOELDEN, Austria — Norway’s Ragnhild Mowinckel left the finish area of the season-opening women’s World Cup race in tears Saturday after becoming the first skier to be disqualified for a forbidden type of wax on her skis. Mowinckel, a two-time Olympic silver medalist from

Associated Press Oct 28, 2023, 06:26 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SOELDEN, Austria — Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami edged first-run leader Federica Brignone by two-hundredths of a second Saturday to win the season-opening women’s World Cup giant slalom, with Mikaela Shiffrin finishing in sixth. Gut-Behrami trailed the Italian by 0.73 after the opening leg but

Associated Press Oct 27, 2023, 10:19 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SOELDEN, Austria — Mikaela Shiffrin was named skier of the year by the federation of ski journalists on Friday, with American great Bode Miller handing over the trophy. Shiffrin, who set the record for most World Cup wins with 88 and won her fifth

Associated Press Oct 26, 2023, 06:20 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SANTIAGO, Chile — The city of Laredo, Texas, has its first Olympian. Boxer Jennifer Laredo qualified for next year’s Paris Olympics on Thursday by reaching the final of the women’s 50 kilogram weight class at the Pan American Games. The 20-year-old Lozano was dominant

Associated Press Oct 26, 2023, 08:28 AM ET Norwegian police launched an investigation Thursday into allegations by the three Ingebrigtsen brothers — including Tokyo gold-medal winner Jakob — that their father, who had been their track coach at the Olympics and other events, was violent and abusive when they were growing up. On Oct. 19,

Associated Press Oct 25, 2023, 09:44 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SANTIAGO, Chile — Kaliya Lincoln was once a 12-year-old girl being coached by her hero Gabby Douglas, the first Black gymnast to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games. Fast forward five years, and the teenager from Frisco, Texas, is the gold medalist

Associated Press Oct 25, 2023, 11:36 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LONDON — Two of London’s Metropolitan Police officers were dismissed from the force Wednesday after a disciplinary panel concluded that they committed gross misconduct over the stop and search of two Black athletes. Bianca Williams and Ricardo Dos Santos, both professional sprinters, complained to

Associated Press Oct 24, 2023, 06:33 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SANTIAGO, Chile — The likely rival for U.S. gymnast Simone Biles in the vault competition at next year’s Paris Olympics extended her winning streak on Tuesday. Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, also a friend of the American star, won an expected gold medal in her favorite

Associated Press Oct 24, 2023, 12:20 PM ET SANTIAGO, Chile — Workers and volunteers at the Pan American Games were still removing bricks, pieces of wood and construction machinery from outside competition venues on Tuesday, the fourth day of the largest multi-sport event in the region. Construction material is scattered around many of the entrances

Oct 23, 2023, 04:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton is home from the hospital and “in recovery mode,” her daughter said on Monday, after a rare form of pneumonia left the former gymnast fighting for her life. Retton, 55, has spent nearly two weeks in an intensive care unit

Associated Press Oct 22, 2023, 08:27 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SANTIAGO, Chile — Jordan Chiles, the United States’ flagbearer at the opening of the Pan American Games on Friday, led the women’s gymnastics team to a gold medal on Sunday. The U.S. topped the all-round women’s competition with 165.196 points, with a big push

Associated Press Oct 22, 2023, 12:19 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Ilia Malinin stood in the center of the ice at Credit Union of Texas Event Center as stuffed animals thrown from the crowd fell around him, and raised his arms to both soak in the spotlight and almost sheepishly acknowledge the adulation. The 18-year-old

Associated Press Oct 20, 2023, 06:30 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The International Olympic Committee dismissed on Friday claims by Russian President Vladimir Putin of “ethnic discrimination” against athletes who are excluded from international sport. The IOC has advised sports bodies this year to vet Russian athletes for returning to compete as

Oct 20, 2023, 08:22 AM ET Olympic 1,500-meter champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen and his brothers Filip and Henrik have accused their father and former coach Gjert Ingebrigtsen of physical violence and abusive behavior in a column published in Norwegian newspaper VG. Gjert Ingebrigtsen has denied the allegations. The family rift has been the subject of speculation

Associated Press Oct 19, 2023, 04:32 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SANTIAGO, Chile — Television crews at the Pan American Games had equipment stolen this week from the compound of Estadio Nacional, the site of Friday’s opening ceremony, heightening concerns about crime at the tournament hosting over 6,800 athletes. Harold Mayne-Nicholls, the executive-director of the

Associated Press Oct 17, 2023, 04:06 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — If Tyreek Hill and other NFL players want to switch to flag football for a summer and compete in the Olympics, the possibility is becoming more real. NFL executive Peter O’Reilly said Tuesday that the league will work with the players’