Olympics

ESPN News Services Oct 12, 2024, 10:46 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Italy’s Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli won the first-ever Women’s America’s Cup after beating Britain’s Athena Pathway on Saturday. Luna Rossa led from the start and won the six-leg match race off the Barcelona beachfront eight seconds ahead of the British boat. “Speechless, it’s

Oct 12, 2024, 11:36 AM ET Open Extended Reactions New Zealand beat Britain in the opening America’s Cup races on Saturday, with the holders setting the pace in the early skirmishes with the challengers in the first-to-seven contest. The wins give New Zealand a 2-0 lead, with co-helms Peter Burling and Nathan Outteridge delivering two

Associated Press Oct 11, 2024, 11:01 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SALZBURG, Austria — American ski star Mikaela Shiffrin won’t race downhills in the upcoming World Cup season in which she aims for her 100th career win. Following the worst crash of her career in January, the two-time Olympic champion even considered not racing at

Oct 10, 2024, 09:27 AM ET Open Extended Reactions British cyclist Mark Cavendish is set to compete in his final professional race at the two-day Tour de France Criterium in early November, race organisers have said. Cavendish, 39, nicknamed the “Manx Missile”, amassed 165 victories, including a record 35 stage wins at the Tour de

Aaditya Narayan Oct 10, 2024, 07:25 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The Indian men lost to Chinese Taipei in the semifinal of the team event at the Asian Table Tennis Championships on Thursday, but in the process, secured a third consecutive bronze medal in this event. This was also India’s seventh medal at the Asian

Associated Press Oct 10, 2024, 06:33 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The International Olympic Committee has set a Jan. 30 date for the key presidential election meeting where seven candidates will meet with voters ahead of their ballot in March. The closed-doors meeting at IOC headquarters is the only set campaign event

Associated Press Oct 9, 2024, 09:51 AM ET ZURICH — Swiss downhill racer Niels Hintermann will miss the entire ski season after being diagnosed with lymph node cancer. Hintermann, 29, a three-time race winner on the World Cup circuit, revealed the diagnosis Wednesday at a news conference. Hintermann noticed a swelling in his neck after

Sunaadh Sagar Oct 9, 2024, 07:46 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The Indian women’s team of Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Ayhika Mukherjee, Suthirtha Mukherjee and Diya Chitale made history by winning India’s first-ever medal at the Asian Table Tennis Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan after winning bronze following their loss to Japan in the semifinal. India’s

Associated Press Oct 8, 2024, 09:55 AM ET Open Extended Reactions WASHINGTON — A bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday to award Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” Olympic hockey team that defeated the heavily favored Soviet Union in Lake Placid, New York, at a period of

Associated Press Oct 7, 2024, 09:20 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Three-time United States Olympian Gigi Marvin announced her retirement Monday, noting that her career would not have been complete without the chance to play in the Professional Women’s Hockey League’s inaugural season. For someone who witnessed first-hand the fitful starts and stops women’s hockey

Oct 6, 2024, 11:05 AM ET Open Extended Reactions In October 2024, Coco Gauff took home the China Open singles title. Since joining the professional circuit in 2018, the young star’s tennis career has blossomed. Check out some of her other accolades now: 2024 China Open singles champion French Open doubles champion WTA Auckland Open

Oct 4, 2024, 11:04 AM ET LONDON — Two London police officers who were fired over a stop and search of two Black athletes have been given their jobs back after they won an appeal against their dismissals on Friday. British sprinter Bianca Williams and her partner, Portuguese 400-meter runner Ricardo dos Santos, were followed

Kristen Shilton, ESPN NHL reporterOct 3, 2024, 12:38 PM ET Close Kristen Shilton is a national NHL reporter for ESPN. Open Extended Reactions USA Hockey will honor the lives of brothers Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau by having national teams at all levels wear a unique helmet decal during this coming season. The governing body made

Associated Press Oct 1, 2024, 08:58 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TOKYO — The International Olympic Committee’s three major Japanese sponsors — Toyota, Panasonic and Bridgestone — are terminating their contracts. This leaves the IOC without a Japanese sponsor with the focus now expected to shift to the Middle East and India for new sponsorship

Associated Press Sep 30, 2024, 10:56 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WASHINGTON — Declaring the U.S. the “greatest sports nation in the history of the world,” President Joe Biden welcomed U.S. Olympians and Paralympians at the White House on Monday to recognize their achievement in this summer’s Games in Paris. “Thank you for representing the

Aug 4, 2024, 12:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Scottie Scheffler has become one of the most prominent figures in golf since his breakthrough year in 2022, where he achieved a No. 1 world ranking. Over the past few years, he’s claimed a number of PGA Tour titles, including two wins at the Masters tournament.

Associated Press Sep 29, 2024, 05:56 AM ET Open Extended Reactions BERLIN — Ethiopians Milkesa Mengesha and Tigist Ketema won the men’s and women’s races in the 50th edition of the Berlin Marathon on Sunday. The 24-year-old Mengesha finished strongly and ran a personal best time of 2 hours, 3 minutes, 17 seconds to finish

Associated Press Sep 29, 2024, 07:37 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARK CITY, Utah — In his first visit to Utah since awarding Salt Lake City the 2034 Winter Games, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach sought to ease worries that the city could lose its second Olympics if organizers don’t fulfill an agreement to