Olympics

Associated Press Aug 9, 2023, 05:47 PM ET Jennifer Valente already had become the most decorated American track cyclist in history at this year’s world championships, winning a gold medal in the scratch race and a bronze medal in the elimination race to give her 19 medals for her career. Valente capped her week in

Aug 9, 2023, 07:46 AM ET LONDON — World Boxing, a new body seeking recognition from the International Olympic Committee, announced its first six official members Wednesday with the United States among federations from three continents. The others approved as full members were New Zealand Boxing, Boxing Australia, England Boxing and the Dutch Boxing Federation.

Associated Press Aug 8, 2023, 04:48 PM ET Lotte Kopecky finally put a dent in Britain’s dominance of the velodrome at the cycling world championships on Tuesday. One day after the home nation took two more gold medals in track cycling, the Belgian multi-disciplinary standout regained her points race world title from Britain’s Neah Evans

Associated Press Aug 8, 2023, 09:14 AM ET WARSAW, Poland — Now cleared to run for Poland after defecting at the Tokyo Olympics, Belarus-born sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is representing her new country in three events at the world championships this month. The Polish track federation said Tuesday that Tsimanouskaya is being selected for the 100

Associated Press Aug 7, 2023, 05:17 PM ET BAYAMON, Puerto Rico — Kansas had its 35-game exhibition winning streak in men’s basketball snapped Monday by the Bahamian national team, which got big performances from NBA stars Buddy Hield and Eric Gordon in an 87-81 victory at Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum. Hield scored 19 points and Gordon

Alyssa Roenigk, ESPN Senior WriterAug 6, 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). HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — On the final rotation of the first meet of her return

Associated Press Aug 6, 2023, 04:58 AM ET PARIS — Heavy rains in Paris have led to the cancellation on Sunday of a swimming event in the River Seine that was to be a test for next year’s Summer Olympics, but Games organizers say the waterway will be better prepared in 2024. The Open Water

Alyssa Roenigk, ESPN Senior WriterAug 5, 2023, 10:37 PM 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). HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — Simone Biles is a champion once again. The four-time Olympic gold

Tim Bontemps, ESPNAug 4, 2023, 08:07 PM ET LAS VEGAS — On the second day of Team USA’s training camp, the 12-man roster headed to the FIBA World Cup later this month scrimmaged against the select team — a group of young players, plus a couple of veterans, brought in to help the senior group

Alyssa Roenigk, ESPN Senior WriterAug 4, 2023, 02:55 PM 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). HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — Simone Biles is back. Two years and one day after taking

Associated Press Aug 4, 2023, 06:21 AM ET PARIS — Heavy rains have set back plans to test Paris’ readiness for swimmers to race in the River Seine at next year’s Summer Olympics. A planned training session Friday for swimmers aiming to compete this weekend in the river that cuts through Paris was canceled because

Associated Press Aug 3, 2023, 10:23 AM ET USA Gymnastics and Nike have reached an agreement on a sponsorship deal that will make the athletic giant the exclusive apparel and footwear provider for the men’s and women’s national teams. The deal, which USA Gymnastics says is the largest ever both in terms of annual value

Associated Press Aug 2, 2023, 04:18 PM ET MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s sports minister publicly apologized Wednesday and ordered that the chairwoman of the national track and field federation be suspended after a seemingly untrained female sprinter represented the African country at the World University Games in China and took more than 20 seconds to

Zenia D’Cunha Aug 1, 2023, 01:10 PM ET Table tennis is in a unique place in India. It has the usual markers of progress: recent success via the Commonwealth and Asian Games, popular athletes as ambassadors in Manika Batra and Achanta Sharath Kamal and a direct mass connect as a participatory sport. Yet it’s still

Jul 31, 2023, 09:59 PM ET Australia’s anti-doping authority has dropped its investigation into athlete Peter Bol in the lead-up to the world championships after finding his positive test for synthetic erythropoietin (EPO) was wrong. The middle distance runner, who finished fourth in the 800 metres at the Tokyo Olympics, was provisionally suspended in January

Associated Press Jul 30, 2023, 06:42 PM ET COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Seventeen-year-old American cyclist Magnus White, who was scheduled to race at the upcoming world championships in Scotland, was killed Saturday when he was struck by a vehicle on a training ride near his home in Boulder, Colorado. USA Cycling announced his death in

ESPN News Services Jul 30, 2023, 02:00 PM ET Demi Vollering won the women’s Tour de France for the first time Sunday while her teammate Marlen Reusser of Switzerland clinched the final-stage time trial. Although the 26-year-old Vollering was already in a strong position after a dominant win in Saturday’s penultimate stage up to Tourmalet

ESPN News Services Jul 30, 2023, 07:55 AM ET Sarah Sjöström won her 21st career medal in individual races in the world championships, surpassing Michael Phelps’ 20 for the record with a victory in the women’s 50-meter freestyle Sunday. The Swedish swimmer, who set the world record in the semifinals Saturday, powered home in the