Olympics

8:41 AM ET Associated Press SAN VIGILIO DI MAREBBE, Italy — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin won a record 83rd World Cup race Tuesday. Shiffrin’s giant slalom victory broke a tie on the women’s career list with former American teammate Lindsey Vonn. Vonn retired four years ago when injuries cut her career short. “I don’t think

Jan 24, 2023 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). VANESSA ATLER TOSSES a Reese’s peanut butter cup into the air, throws a tumbling pass atop a balance beam, catches

8:33 AM ET British gymnast Ellie Downie has retired from the sport at the age of 23 to prioritise her “mental health and happiness.” Downie won Britain’s first all-around gold medal at a major championship in 2017. She won 12 medals in her senior career. In a statement released on Twitter, Downie said she made

6:31 AM ET Associated Press CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin’s pursuit of a record 83rd World Cup win will move on to the next stop on the circuit. Shiffrin finished seventh in a super-G on Sunday, 0.62 seconds behind race winner Ragnhild Mowinckel, to mark the third straight event in Cortina this

6:15 AM ET Associated Press CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin’s pursuit of a record-breaking 83rd World Cup victory is still on hold. Shiffrin finished seventh, 0.39 seconds behind Slovenian winner Ilka Stuhec in a downhill Saturday on the course that will be used for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics. Shiffrin therefore remained tied

11:04 PM ET Competing at home in front of a sold-out Auburn crowd, Olympic champion Suni Lee won all the things. Well, almost. She had the top scores on vault, bars and floor on her way to the all-around title in Friday night’s dual meet against Arkansas. On floor, she debuted a mesmerizing new routine

Jan 20, 2023 Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Bob Bowman, Michael Phelps’ longtime coach, and Carol Capitani were announced Friday as head coaches of the U.S. swimming team for this summer’s world championship in Fukuoka, Japan. Bowman will lead the men’s team. Capitani, the women’s head coach at Texas, will head the women’s squad,

Jan 20, 2023 Associated Press KITZBUEHEL, Austria — Vincent Kriechmayr won Austria’s most storied World Cup race Friday to give the ski-mad nation a reason to celebrate in its otherwise disappointing season so far. Kriechmayr won the first of two downhills on the classic Streif course and remained the only Austrian skier, male or female,

5:58 AM ET Associated Press CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin’s pursuit of a record-breaking 83rd World Cup victory will go on for at least another day. Shiffrin finished fourth, half a second behind race winner Sofia Goggia, in a downhill Friday on the course that will be used for the 2026 Milan-Cortina

12:03 PM ET Associated Press The Belarusian track coach who tried to force a sprinter to return home from the Tokyo Olympics after she was critical of the team has been charged with breaching the sport’s integrity standards. The Athletics Integrity Unit, which oversees disciplinary actions in track and field, announced the charges against Yury

8:16 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Southern California will name the field at the university’s track stadium after Olympic champion sprinter Allyson Felix. Such honors are usually reserved for major donors. Felix graduated from USC in 2008 with a degree in elementary education. She grew up in Los Angeles and used to walk

11:15 AM ET Associated Press BRUSSELS — Veteran sprinter Mark Cavendish might still get a chance to claim the outright record for stage wins at the Tour de France. Cavendish has joined Astana-Qazaqstan to extend his storied career by one season and will be hoping to ride for the Kazakh team at cycling’s biggest race

2:04 PM ET Associated Press MONACO — Two-time Olympic athlete Ana José Tima was provisionally suspended for two positive tests for doping substances, track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said on Monday. The AIU said José Tima, a triple jumper from the Dominican Republic, was notified of allegations in the case that involved positive tests

9:38 AM ET Associated Press ALTENBERG, Germany — Kaillie Humphries of the U.S. got a milestone medal Saturday, winning a World Cup women’s monobob race for the 100th top-three finish of her career in major international competition. Humphries has won 70 medals in two-woman races in her career; 60 in World Cups, seven at the

Jan 14, 2023 Associated Press ST. ANTON, Austria — Federica Brignone won a World Cup super-G on Saturday for the 2020 overall champion’s first victory this season in a race that Mikaela Shiffrin skipped. Brignone mastered a course shortened because of heavy overnight snowfall and triumphed after her Italian teammate Sofia Goggia skied faster but

9:00 PM ET The Auburn-Florida gymnastics meet on Friday night was bound to be a blockbuster competition, with NCAA stars all over the place. But who would earn the 10s? Leanne Wong? Trinity Thomas? How about both of them. Wong stole the show with two perfect scores at home in front of the sellout crowd.

Jan 13, 2023 Associated Press WENGEN, Switzerland — Aleksander Aamodt Kilde spoiled a Swiss party by winning a World Cup super-G on the country’s storied Lauberhorn course Friday. The Norwegian blew kisses to the noisy local fans in the finish area after edging home racers Stefan Rogentin and Marco Odermatt. Kilde, the 2022 Olympic bronze

11:45 AM ET Associated Press MONTREAL — A Russian tribunal found figure skater Kamila Valieva bore “no fault or negligence” in a doping case that rocked last year’s Winter Olympics, the World Anti-Doping Agency said Friday. The Russian skater won Olympic gold in the team competition in February before it was announced that a sample