Olympics

8:17 AM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Men can compete in Olympic artistic swimming for the first time at the 2024 Paris Games, World Aquatics said on Thursday. Approval from the International Olympic Committee means a maximum of two men can be selected among eight athletes in the team event that is due to

Dec 22, 2022 Associated Press TOKYO — The cost of the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics is 20% higher than organizers said when they announced official figures more than a year ago, according to a report by the board of audit of Japan. The report, which was released this week, said there was a lack of

10:08 AM ET Banned Russian athlete and Olympic 400m hurdles champion Natalia Antyukh will lose her gold medal from London 2012 after she did not appeal her doping ban, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Wednesday. The 41-year-old won the 400m hurdles title at the 2012 Games, defeating American Lashinda Demus, who will be

11:25 AM ET Kenya’s Diana Kipyokei has been disqualified as the 2021 Boston Marathon women’s winner after being handed a six-year ban for using the prohibited substance triamcinolone acetonide, the Athletics Integrity United (AIU) said on Tuesday. Compatriot Purity Rionoripo has been banned for five years after testing positive for the banned diuretic furosemide, while

2:38 AM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Danielle Serdachny scored at 2:16 of overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory over the United States in the fifth game of the Rivalry Series on Monday night. Serdachny beat goalie Nicole Hensley on the short side with a snap shot in front of 8,640 fans at

11:42 AM ET Associated Press The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee is encouraging individual sports to consider “category qualifiers” — classified in some sports as “open” categories — to ensure transgender athletes will have events to participate in once they reach puberty. The USOPC finalized its so-called position paper at its board meeting earlier this

4:54 PM ET Associated Press LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Kaillie Humphries learned to drive at Mount Van Hoevenberg. And she clearly hasn’t forgotten how. Humphries teamed with fellow U.S. Olympian Kaysha Love on Sunday to win a women’s World Cup bobsled race. It was her 29th career World Cup win in the two-person event; of

12:27 AM ET Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah — Germany won three of five World Cup races held Saturday at the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics sliding track, while Emily Sweeney and Brittney Arndt won medals for the U.S. Germany got gold in the women’s race, with Dajana Eitberger holding off Sweeney for the victory, as

11:46 AM ET Richard Callaghan, a once-celebrated figure skating coach, has agreed to refrain from coaching minors as part of a legal settlement with one of the former students who has accused him of abuse. Craig Maurizi, a skater-turned-coach, has repeatedly alleged that Callaghan sexually abused him on numerous occasions when he was a young

Dec 15, 2022 M.A. VoepelESPN.com Close M.A. Voepel covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. Billie Moore, who was the first U.S. Olympic women’s basketball coach and led UCLA to the 1978 national championship, died Wednesday

9:45 AM ET Spend five or 10 minutes talking with any woman who has been fortunate enough to play for the United States national hockey team. At some point in that discussion, they will share why the need to make time for others remains so important for their sport because they understand the value of

12:35 PM ET Associated Press MILAN — Italian Olympic Committee president Giovanni Malagò is confident everything is on track for the country’s first Olympics in two decades but admits that the past few years have been akin to “running a marathon with a backpack.” Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo will stage the 2026 Winter Games and

7:02 PM ET Associated Press MONACO — United States sprinter Randolph Ross has been banned for three years for whereabouts failures and faking an email to anti-doping authorities. The Athletics Integrity Unit announced Tuesday that the back-to-back NCAA champion from North Carolina A&T will be suspended until June 30, 2025, meaning he’ll be ineligible for

4:08 PM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — A second bronze medal will be awarded to end a dispute over third place in women’s skicross at the Beijing Olympics. Under a settlement reached 10 months after the race — and following a second change in the result — both Fanny Smith of Switzerland and Daniela

9:03 AM ET Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel, who pleaded guilty to common assault of two teenaged girls before the world championship road race in September, had his convictions and fine overturned by a judge in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court on appeal. The 27-year-old had been charged with two counts of common assault

12:48 PM ET Associated Press The leader of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee conceded it would be “impossible” to monitor which athletes have supported the war in Ukraine if a plan is devised to allow some Russians to compete as neutrals in international competitions, and potentially the Olympics. USOPC chair Susanne Lyons said Monday

Dec 12, 2022 Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham will be among the new members of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic board of directors beginning in 2023. Cunningham will start on the board as Duke’s former athletic director Kevin White leaves — keeping a major-college presence on a governing

9:21 AM ET Associated Press SESTRIERE, Italy — Wendy Holdener had a lengthy wait for her first slalom victory. The Swiss skier made it two out of two Sunday. And this time she didn’t have to share the top spot. Holdener improved on her second position after the opening run to triumph in Sestriere, finishing