Olympics

7:50 AM ET Associated Press MILAN — Perched incongruously on the 44th floor of one of Milan’s modern glass skyscrapers is a ski lodge. The “baita,” which is made of reclaimed wood from trees felled in a devastating storm that hit northern Italy in 2018, is in the headquarters of the organizing committee for the

11:48 PM ET Associated Press PLANICA, Slovenia — Jessie Diggins became the first American to win world championship gold in an individual cross country ski race, finishing 14 seconds in front of Sweden’s Frida Karlsson on Tuesday. The 31-year-old Diggins outlasted the competition in the 10-kilometer race, crossing the line in 23 minutes, 40.8 seconds

4:24 PM ET Associated Press The Basketball World Cup field is now filled, with Serbia grabbing the last spot in this summer’s 32-team tournament. Serbia clinched the berth with a 101-83 win over Great Britain on Monday. The win means two-time reigning NBA MVP Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets — if he is so

9:53 PM ET Associated Press Georgia lost, and then celebrated. Iceland won, and was devastated. One of the last FIBA Basketball World Cup spots went to Georgia on Sunday — even though it lost to Iceland 80-77 in the final Europe Region qualifying game for both teams. Iceland needed to win by four points or

Feb 26, 2023 Associated Press OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. — Norwegian ski racer Alexander Steen Olsen earned his first World Cup win after AJ Ginnis of Greece was disqualified for missing a gate in a slalom event held on a snowy Sunday at the Palisades Tahoe resort. With the visibility deteriorating as the snow picked up

8:58 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Paul Cayard has resigned as executive director of the U.S. Olympic Sailing Team, the latest upheaval for a once-dominant squad that has become an afterthought on the world stage. Cayard, one of America’s most successful sailors, said Saturday that he couldn’t work under a restructuring of the

Feb 24, 2023 Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Olympic ice dancers Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker withdrew Friday from figure skating’s world championships as they continue to prioritize “their healing and mental health.” Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko will take their place next month in Saitama, Japan. Hawayak and Baker were 11th at last

8:00 AM ET Kelly O’Mara At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Gwen Jorgensen pulled away on the final lap of the run to cross the finish line, far ahead of second place. In front of cheering crowds on the Copacabana Beach, she won the U.S. its first Olympic gold medal in triathlon and broke into tears.

9:44 PM ET Associated Press USA Basketball is heading to this summer’s FIBA World Cup. The Americans clinched a berth in the 32-team field on Thursday night, rallying for an 88-77 win at Uruguay. The U.S. secured one of the seven World Cup berths allocated to the FIBA Americas region. Langston Galloway, who played in

9:56 PM ET Associated Press LAVAL, Quebec — Blayre Turnbull scored twice in a 32-second span midway through the second period and Canada overcame a three-game deficit to win the Rivalry Series, beating the United States 5-0 in Game 7 on Wednesday night in the women’s hockey showdown. Turnbull scored on a power play with

6:39 AM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The International Skating Union is following the World Anti-Doping Agency in appealing the decision not to ban Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva over the doping case that overshadowed last year’s Beijing Olympics. The ISU said Wednesday that despite Valieva’s age — she was 15 at the time

10:15 AM ET Associated Press MONTREAL — The World Anti-Doping Agency has appealed Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s doping case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and said Tuesday it is seeking a four-year ban. WADA is objecting to a finding by a Russian tribunal that Valieva bore “no fault or negligence” in the

8:16 AM ET Associated Press The governments of more than 30 nations released a letter Monday calling on the International Olympic Committee to clarify the definition of “neutrality” as it seeks a way to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes back into international sports and, ultimately, next year’s Paris Olympics. “As long as these fundamental issues

1:40 PM ET Associated Press APELDOORN, Netherlands — Femke Bol broke a 40-year-old world indoor record in the women’s 400 meters on Sunday, covering the distance in 49.26 seconds. Bol was running in front of a home crowd at the Dutch Indoor Championships. “When I crossed the line I knew that the record was mine,

9:09 AM ET Associated Press COURCHEVEL, France — Greek racer AJ Ginnis finished runner-up to gold medalist Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway in slalom at the Alpine skiing world championships Sunday to earn his country its first world championships medal in a Winter Olympic sport. “You put Greece on the map,” Johan Eliasch, president of the

8:46 AM ET Associated Press MERIBEL, France — Mikaela Shiffrin didn’t hold on to a first-run lead and was beaten to gold by unheralded Canadian skier Laurence St-Germain in the women’s slalom at the world championships Saturday. The American finished 0.57 seconds behind St-Germain after the final run to settle for silver. St-Germain’s victory marked

6:44 AM ET Associated Press BATHURST, Australia — Lightning cracked as Jacob Kiplimo was finishing off his win in the cross-country world championships, waving his arms to celebrate as he strode the last steps of a downhill run to the line that had claimed a major casualty in the women’s race earlier Saturday. Letesenbet Gidey

Feb 17, 2023 ESPN staff Florida gymnast Trinity Thomas is the reigning NCAA all-around champion. She is a 27-time All-American. And, right now, she is fast approaching a major record: The most perfect 10s in NCAA history. While the perfect 10 is long gone in Olympic gymnastics, it’s still going strong in NCAA competition, and