Olympics

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’

Associated Press Oct 17, 2023, 09:52 AM ET Open Extended Reactions MUMBAI, India — Oscar-winning actor Michelle Yeoh was elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday despite some “no” votes from her new colleagues. Eight new IOC members were voted in to make a total of 107 drawn from royal families,

David Schoenfield, ESPN Senior WriterOct 16, 2023, 05:38 PM ET Close Covers MLB for ESPN.com Former deputy editor of Page 2 Been with ESPN.com since 1995 Open Extended Reactions PHILADELPHIA — The International Olympic Committee announced Monday that baseball and softball will be returning to the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles — and Philadelphia

Associated Press Oct 16, 2023, 06:18 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Cricket is an Olympic sport again. Flag football gets in for the first time. Five sports were finally added to the 2028 Los Angeles Games by the International Olympic Committee on Monday with baseball-softball, lacrosse and squash also confirmed for the program. The slate

Associated Press Oct 16, 2023, 11:20 AM ET Open Extended Reactions One day after some Olympic officials urged him to scrap term limits and stay for four more years, IOC president Thomas Bach said Monday they “are necessary.” The German lawyer also took a public swipe at potential successor Sebastian Coe because some colleagues think

Associated Press Oct 15, 2023, 03:05 AM ET Open Extended Reactions MUMBAI, India — IOC president Thomas Bach was urged by its members on Sunday to change Olympic rules on term limits and seek four more years as president. Bach’s presidency is due to end in 2025 — a 12-year maximum agreed in anti-corruption reforms

Associated Press Oct 15, 2023, 05:38 AM ET Countries that exclude athletes from competing for political reasons risk harming their plans to host an Olympic Games, the IOC said Sunday. The “growing politicization of sport” was flagged as a problem by International Olympic Committee member Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, the former president of Croatia, in an update

Oct 14, 2023, 12:54 PM ET Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton has made “remarkable” progress, her daughter Shayla Schrepfer said on social media Saturday, after a rare form of pneumonia left the American fighting for her life. The gymnastics icon, 55, has been in intensive care for several days as she was unable to

Associated Press Oct 13, 2023, 02:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MUMBAI, India — Russian athletes can be directly invited to next year’s Paris Games despite the suspension of their country’s Olympic committee, the IOC said Friday. International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach commented on the issue a day after the Russian Olympic Committee was

Associated Press Oct 12, 2023, 04:53 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Four-time NCAA champion sprinter Divine Oduduru received a six-year ban for his role in a case first pursued by U.S. authorities under a law designed to combat widespread doping schemes across the globe. The Athletics Integrity Unit, which oversees doping cases in track and

Associated Press Oct 12, 2023, 10:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions GENEVA — After nearly 20 months of waging war in Ukraine, Russia was suspended by the IOC on Thursday for a land grab in sports administration. The International Olympic Committee’s executive board imposed the suspension on the Russian Olympic Committee for a breach of

Associated Press Oct 11, 2023, 05:43 PM ET Olympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton remained in intensive care Wednesday while dealing with a rare form of pneumonia. Retton’s daughters posted a message on Instagram saying their mother “continues to fight” and thanked the thousands who have donated money to help take care of Retton’s medical

ESPN News Services Oct 10, 2023, 08:13 PM ET Gymnast Mary Lou Retton, who captured America’s attention while winning the gold medal in the women’s all-around at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, is in intensive care and “fighting for her life” in a Texas hospital, her daughter said Tuesday on social media. Retton

Adrian Wojnarowski, Senior NBA InsiderOct 8, 2023, 05:12 PM ET Close Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 USA Basketball is aggressively pursuing Boston Celtics All-Star guard Jrue Holiday to return to Team USA for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, sources told ESPN. Holiday, 33, has yet to decide, but USA officials

Associated Press Oct 9, 2023, 11:58 AM ET The NFL’s ongoing push for worldwide exposure got another boost Monday when organizers for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics delivered a proposal to put flag football on the program when the Summer Games return to the United States for the first time in 32 years. The International

Alyssa Roenigk, ESPN Senior WriterOct 9, 2023, 09:33 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). ANTWERP, Belgium — The enduring moment from this year’s world gymnastics championships will be that

Oct 8, 2023, 11:01 AM ET Kenyan Kelvin Kiptum shattered the men’s marathon world record in Chicago on Sunday, winning in 2 hours, 35 seconds to beat compatriot Eliud Kipchoge’s previous mark by more than 30 seconds. Kiptum smashed the London Marathon course record this year and was determined to make magic again in the

Associated Press Oct 7, 2023, 11:20 AM ET ANTWERP, Belgium — The acrobatics that Simone Biles tries are so extreme and difficult that even when she does not execute to perfection, she still ends up on a world podium. Biles had to be content with a silver medal Saturday at the world championships — her