Olympics

7:24 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — The Paris Olympics is putting out a call for 45,000 helpers. Organizers of the 2024 Games are launching a drive this week to recruit tens of thousands of volunteers willing to work without pay at the world’s biggest sports event. And they want the group of volunteers to

4:41 PM ET Associated Press The Paris Olympics is going underground to find a way to keep athletes cool at the 2024 Games without air conditioners. Organizers are planning to use a water-cooling system under the Athletes Village — much like the one that has helped the Louvre Museum cope with the sweltering heat that

Mar 20, 2023 ESPN News Services OBERHOFEN, Switzerland — Mikaela Shiffrin has topped $1 million on the season-ending race prize money list. Shiffrin’s win in a giant slalom Sunday was her 13th World Cup victory since October and lifted her total prize money total to 964,200 Swiss francs ($1.04 million). That set the all-time Alpine

10:43 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” MIAMI — The best No. 9 hitter in the world helped send Team USA to the World Baseball Classic finals. One day after his go-ahead grand slam saved its tournament, Trea Turner

8:29 AM ET Associated Press SOLDEU, Andorra — Mikaela Shiffrin won her 21st career giant slalom at the World Cup finals Sunday as the American standout ended the season with yet another record. The victory moved Shiffrin past Vreni Schneider, a week after matching the Swiss skier’s mark of 20 World Cup giant slalom victories.

10:12 AM ET Associated Press SOLDEU, Andorra — Slovakian skier Petra Vlhova used a frenetic finish on her final run to win the last women’s World Cup slalom of the season Saturday, while Mikaela Shiffrin placed third. Vlhova trailed then-leader Leona Popovic by eight-hundredths of a second at the last split but gained time through

9:00 AM ET Associated Press SOLDEU, Andorra — Norway won the mixed team parallel event at the World Cup Finals on Friday after Timon Haugan beat his Swiss opponent Semyel Bissig in the decisive run. Livio Simonet and Andrea Ellenberger gave Switzerland a 2-1 lead in the final, but Haugan’s triumph handed Norway the victory

6:33 AM ET Associated Press SOLDEU, Andorra — Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami won the women’s World Cup super-G title Thursday while Mikaela Shiffrin finished 14th in her first race since setting the record for most career victories with 87. Gut-Behrami had a near-flawless run on the Aliga course to win the final super-G of the

8:14 AM ET Associated Press SOLDEU, Andorra — Swiss skier Marco Odermatt won the men’s super-G at the World Cup Finals on Thursday to close in on the 23-year-old record for most points in a single season. The victory raised Odermatt’s tally to 1,942 points, leaving him 58 short of the all-time mark set by

3:13 PM ET Associated Press SOLDEU, Andorra — One year after almost quitting Alpine skiing in frustration, Ilka Štuhec was back at the peak of her form on Wednesday. The two-time world champion completed her downhill season by beating Sofia Goggia, the season’s standout speed racer, for victory at the World Cup Finals. Štuhec raced

Mar 15, 2023 Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Raven Saunders, the U.S. silver-medal shot-putter who used her triumph at the Tokyo Olympics to bring attention to social injustice, has been suspended for 18 months for failing to show up for doping tests. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency announced the sanction Wednesday for Saunders, saying she

6:32 AM ET Associated Press SOLDEU, Andorra — It’s been the script all season long in men’s World Cup downhills: If Aleksander Aamodt Kilde doesn’t win, then Vincent Kriechmayr will. Kriechmayr took advantage of Kilde being slightly off his game at the World Cup Finals on Wednesday to take his fourth race win of the

7:00 AM ET ALEX WALSH SLOWLY exhales as she propels herself toward the bottom of the pool. The bubbles ascend to the surface as she sinks. Her hands find the tile on the pool floor and she pushes her legs into a handstand. The long exhale keeps her anchored underwater. Quickly, before her fingers are

9:51 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” MIAMI — Officially, Puerto Rico’s 10-0 victory over Israel in the World Baseball Classic on Monday night will not enter the record books as a perfect game, even though four pitchers combined

11:05 AM ET Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah — Fresh off breaking the record for most World Cup race wins, Mikaela Shiffrin has a new head coach, Karin Harjo, who has been leading Canada’s Alpine skiing team. U.S. Ski & Snowboard announced Harjo’s hiring on Monday and said she will join Shiffrin in April. Harjo

1:53 AM ET PHOENIX — Playing for Team USA again in the World Baseball Classic was never a question for third baseman Nolan Arenado. After helping the U.S. win the tournament in 2017, he desperately wanted a chance to defend that title. He’s off to a good start. Arenado, 31, had three hits and several

8:23 AM ET Alyssa RoenigkESPN 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). Three years ago, Mikaela Shiffrin didn’t know if she would race again. On Saturday in Are, Sweden, she won her

8:29 AM ET Associated Press ARE, Sweden — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin set the outright World Cup record for career victories with 87 by winning a slalom Saturday. Shiffrin broke a tie with Ingemar Stenmark on the all-time winner list for men or women. The Swedish skier competed in the 1970s and ’80s. She had