Olympics

Associated Press Mar 3, 2024, 05:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions GLASGOW, Scotland — Bahamas runner Devynne Charlton broke her own 60-meter hurdles world record at the world athletics indoor championships Sunday. Charlton won in 7.65 seconds and took 0.02 off the record she set in New York on Feb. 11, which was matched by

Associated Press Mar 3, 2024, 08:37 AM ET Open Extended Reactions KVITFJELL, Norway — Federica Brignone won a stop-start women’s World Cup super-G disrupted by fog on Sunday, while Lara Gut-Behrami extended her lead in the discipline and overall standings. Gut-Behrami was second in Kvitfjell, 0.61 seconds behind Brignone, who is third in the discipline

Mar 2, 2024, 08:41 AM ET Open Extended Reactions GLASGOW, Scotland — Miltiadis Tentoglou threatened to quit the long jump shortly after winning the world indoor title Saturday, saying he would change events if the sport implements a rule change intended to eliminate foul jumps. The amendment World Athletics is proposing involves introducing a take-off

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Mar 1, 2024, 03:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MARIE-SOPHIE BOGGASCH KNEW “absolutely nothing” about Alaska — the state or the school — before she arrived in Anchorage for her official recruiting visit in 2012. She was a talented elite gymnast in Germany, finishing as high as 12th in the national championships

Mar 1, 2024, 06:40 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Lithuania’s 2012 Olympic breaststroke gold medalist and Paris 2024 hopeful Ruta Meilutyte has undergone foot surgery and is expected to resume training in early April, her country’s swimming federation said. Meilutyte is the world-record holder and reigning world champion in the 50-meter breaststroke, which is not

Feb 29, 2024, 03:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Salt Lake City officially submitted its bid to host the 2034 Winter Olympics on Thursday with officials hailing the moment as a “monumental day.” Even with no other cities in the running for the 2034 Games, Salt Lake City organizers have been cautious in their approach

Associated Press Feb 28, 2024, 07:40 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SAN DIEGO — With American sailors in an Olympic slump, two-time medalist JJ Fetter is calling for the resignations of U.S. Sailing’s CEO, president and any other board member who supports a federal lawsuit against a sailing foundation and three of its principals, including

Feb 28, 2024, 06:27 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — A bag containing a computer and two memory sticks with data about the Paris Olympics has been lost by a city hall engineer and may have been stolen, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Wednesday. A theft investigation has been handed to transport police following

Associated Press Feb 27, 2024, 01:41 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MONACO — An Olympic track coach who tried to force Krystsina Tsimanouskaya home from the Tokyo Games to Belarus where she feared for her safety was banned from the sport for five years Tuesday. Yury Maisevich’s actions in Tokyo were adjudged to be a

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Feb 26, 2024, 02:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions On Friday night, moments after Florida’s Payton Richards was carried off the floor after sustaining an injury on her opening tumbling pass, all eyes were on Leanne Wong as she prepared to close out the competition against LSU. Needing a 9.825 to seal

Associated Press Feb 26, 2024, 06:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions KVITFJELL, Norway — Two-time Olympic medalist Ragnhild Mowinckel said Monday she will stop her ski racing career at the end of the season. “I think 8-year-old Ragnhild would be very proud of 31-year-old Ragnhild,” the Norwegian racer said in a video message on her

Associated Press Feb 26, 2024, 07:16 AM ET Open Extended Reactions AIGLE, Switzerland — American women’s cycling team Cynisca was punished by the sport’s governing body Monday for trying to enter an international race by deceiving organizers. The International Cycling Union said a team official told a mechanic “to wear a rider’s clothes and a

ESPN News Services Feb 25, 2024, 07:21 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Canada’s Christopher Morales Williams raced to a world indoor record in the 400 meters at the SEC championships Saturday in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The 19-year-old Georgia sophomore flew to a time of 44.49 seconds to break the previous mark of 44.57 set by American

Associated Press Feb 24, 2024, 05:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. — Marco Odermatt clinched his third consecutive World Cup overall title on Saturday by claiming a 10th giant slalom victory in a row. The 26-year-old from Switzerland has been so dominant this season that he is assured of taking home the

Associated Press Feb 24, 2024, 06:26 AM ET Open Extended Reactions VAL DI FASSA, Italy — Heavy snow forced the cancellation of a women’s World Cup super-G on Saturday in Val di Fassa. There is another super-G scheduled for Sunday and race organizers are hopeful it can go ahead as planned. “Due to the large

Feb 23, 2024, 11:52 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Three-time world road champion Peter Sagan underwent a heart procedure on Friday after suffering a tachycardia episode during a recent mountain bike race in Spain. The Slovakian rider suffered an abnormally high heart rate in a mountain bike race in Valencia over the weekend and was

Associated Press Feb 23, 2024, 06:25 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The Russian Olympic Committee has lost an appeal against its suspension by the International Olympic Committee. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Friday that it had dismissed the ROC’s appeal against the suspension imposed in October. The IOC objected to

Associated Press Feb 22, 2024, 05:19 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Gabby Douglas’ return to competition is going to have to wait. The 2012 Olympic gymnastics champion pulled out of this weekend’s Winter Cup in Louisville, Kentucky, after posting on social media that she had tested positive for COVID-19. The 28-year-old Douglas