Olympics

7:01 PM ET Associated Press Regis Becker, the former interim CEO of the U.S. Center for SafeSport, has been temporarily suspended by the center he used to run for failure to report a case. The center posted the suspension earlier this week. It also included a charge of abuse of process. Becker served as a

8:50 AM ET Associated Press COURCHEVEL, France — Marco Odermatt won the men’s giant slalom Friday to become the first Swiss skier in 36 years to earn two gold medals at the same world championships. Odermatt’s victory came five days after he was the surprise winner of the downhill. He matched Pirmin Zurbriggen, who won

8:35 AM ET Associated Press MERIBEL, France — Mikaela Shiffrin covered her mouth with her fluorescent orange mittens and collapsed to the snow, still breathing heavily as her body pulsated from the exertion of her gold-medal-winning run. What a relief after a hectic week for the American skier. Having endured a small protest aimed at

7:16 PM ET Associated Press LIEVIN, France — Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma broke a 25-year-old indoor world record in the 3,000 meters on Wednesday at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais. Girma, who won the silver medal in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Tokyo Olympics, covered the distance in 7 minutes, 23.81 seconds at the World Athletics event.

4:55 PM ET Associated Press COLORADO Springs, Colo. — USA Hockey has given executive director Pat Kelleher a multiyear contract extension. President Mike Trimboli on Wednesday announced the extension, which keeps a hockey lifer in charge of the day-to-day operations of the organization. “Pat’s steady leadership, including through the extraordinary times of the COVID-19 pandemic,

6:56 PM ET ESPN News Services COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Bronny James, the son of NBA career scoring leader LeBron James, was one of 26 players announced Tuesday as members of the USA Basketball rosters for this year’s Nike Hoop Summit. The U.S. teams will play April 8 against international players at the Moda Center

8:35 AM ET Associated Press MERIBEL, France — The United States edged defending champion Norway 3-2 in the final to win the team event at the Alpine skiing world championships on Tuesday. Tommy Ford won the final, decisive run when Timon Haugan got stuck in the start. It had been 2-2 after Paula Moltzan and

10:01 AM ET Associated Press WINTERBERG, Germany — USA Luge’s Emily Sweeney picked up her team-best fifth medal of the World Cup season on Sunday, a bronze in a women’s singles race. Julia Taubitz of Germany won the race in 1 minute, 51.683 seconds. Anna Berreiter of Germany was second in 1:51.891 and Sweeney was

8:52 PM ET Associated Press Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara became the first Japanese pairs skaters to win the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships when they overcame a couple of mistakes in their free skate to easily win the title Saturday. Unbeaten in international competition this year, Kihara spun out on the final double axel

6:43 AM ET Associated Press MERIBEL, France — Swiss skier Jasmine Flury won gold in the women’s downhill at the world championships Saturday on a rough day for the pre-race favorites. Flury edged Austrian skier Nina Ortlieb by 0.04 seconds for her first career medal at major championships. Flury has won one World Cup race

8:26 PM ET Associated Press Madison Chock and Evan Bates took the lead after the rhythm dance at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships on Friday as the American ice dancers seek their third title in the marquee international event. Chock and Bates, fresh off their fourth national championship, scored 87.67 points to their program

7:54 PM ET Associated Press Yelim Kim breezed through a near-flawless short program to build the slimmest of leads over 15-year-old American rival Isabeau Levito on Thursday night at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The 20-year-old from South Korea, performing to the moody piano piece “Mercy,” was fluid through an

11:14 AM ET Associated Press Anti-doping authorities are seeking a six-year ban against four-time NCAA champion Divine Oduduru of Nigeria, whose alleged cheating was uncovered in the first case brought by U.S. authorities under a sweeping law designed to combat widespread doping schemes across the globe. The Athletics Integrity Unit, which oversees anti-doping in global

7:12 AM ET ESPN News Services Marta Bassino beat Mikaela Shiffrin to win the women’s super-G on Wednesday and give Italy its second gold medal at the Alpine skiing world championships, with her American rival settling for silver. Shiffrin led Bassino by three-tenths of a second at the second split but couldn’t match the Italian’s

2:28 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — A senior official with the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee and three company executives were arrested Wednesday in an ongoing bid-rigging scandal related to the Games. Yasuo Mori, the Olympic official, was arrested along with Koji Henmi, who headed the sports division at Japanese advertising giant Dentsu. Two other

10:16 AM ET Associated Press MERIBEL, France — Mikaela Shiffrin has ruled out skiing the downhill at the world championships — keeping to her pre-announced schedule of four events. Shiffrin inspected the course before the opening downhill training session Tuesday just to take a look at the layout ahead of Wednesday’s super-G race. But she

12:07 PM ET Associated Press MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded figure skating coach Eteri Tutberidze one of the country’s highest honors Monday, nearly a year after a doping case involving one of her top skaters overshadowed the Winter Olympics. A presidential decree dated Jan. 26 but published Monday lists Tutberidze, 48, among three

8:52 AM ET Associated Press MERIBEL, France — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin missed what looked like a certain gold medal Monday on the opening day of the world championships, skiing out of the women’s combined race with the finish in sight. Shiffrin straddled the third-to-last gate in her slalom run while appearing to be close