Olympics

Dec 30, 2022 Associated Press MONCTON, New Brunswick — Adam Gajan made 28 saves and Slovakia beat Latvia 3-0 on Friday for its second victory in three Group B games in the world junior hockey championship. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, in Group A in the only other game of the day, Germany beat Austria 4-2

7:58 PM ET Associated Press MONCTON, New Brunswick — Minnesota freshman Jimmy Snuggerud scored twice and the United States rebounded from a loss to beat Switzerland 5-1 on Thursday in the world junior hockey championship. Logan Cooley had a goal and an assist, captain Luke Hughes and Tyler Boucher also scored and Trey Augustine made

Dec 29, 2022 Associated Press SEMMERING, Austria — Mikaela Shiffrin made ski racing history once again on Thursday night. This time, however, she wasn’t the only American skier doing so. Shiffrin led teammate Paula Moltzan for the U.S. ski team’s first 1-2 finish in a women’s World Cup slalom since 1971. And Shiffrin’s win in

6:46 AM ET Associated Press BORMIO, Italy — Austrian skier Matthias Mayer, who won gold at three consecutive Olympics, announced his retirement with immediate effect Thursday. Mayer made the announcement shortly before a men’s World Cup super-G in an interview with Austrian TV after he returned from the course inspection and said he would not

7:43 PM ET ESPN News Services MONCTON, New Brunswick — Dalibor Dvorsky, Robert Baco and Filip Mesar scored in a 3:19 span in the second period and Slovakia upset the United States 6-3 on Wednesday in the world junior championship. Libor Nemec, Peter Repcik and Alex Ciernik also scored for Slovakia, and captain Simon Nemec,

6:46 PM ET Associated Press MONCTON, New Brunswick — Oliver Kapanen and Joakim Kemell each had a goal and an assist as Finland beat Slovakia 5-2 on Tuesday at the world junior hockey championship. Jani Nyman also scored during Finland’s three-goal second period. Sami Paivarinta and Brad Lambert had the other goals for the Finns.

9:24 AM ET Associated Press SEMMERING, Austria — Overall women’s World Cup leader Mikaela Shiffrin held on to a big opening-run advantage to win a giant slalom Tuesday, the American’s first triumph in the discipline in more than a year. Carrying a lead of 0.72 seconds over Petra Vlhová from the first leg, Shiffrin lost

4:44 PM ET Associated Press HAVANA — The United States will permit Major League Baseball players from Cuba to represent their home country in the World Baseball Classic next year. The decision announced Saturday in a news release by the Baseball Federation of Cuba (FCB) could be a big step in once again turning Cuba’s

5:11 PM ET Associated Press CAIRO — At least 27 people were injured when stands partly collapsed Saturday during a basketball game in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, health authorities said. Officials said part of the seats fell on spectators at the Super Cup match between Cairo’s Al Ahly and Ittihad of Alexandria following a

4:58 PM ET Associated Press MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO, Italy — When it comes to the World Cup slalom on the steep and icy Canalone Miramonti course, Daniel Yule is a specialist. The Swiss skier won the night race for the third time Thursday, surging up from fourth place after the opening run with a flawless

3:48 PM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Three-time Olympic weightlifting champion Lyu Xiaojun of China has tested positive in a doping case, the International Testing Agency said Thursday. The ITA said Lyu tested positive for EPO, an endurance boosting hormone banned in sports, on Oct. 30 while he was training. The Chinese star is

8:17 AM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Men can compete in Olympic artistic swimming for the first time at the 2024 Paris Games, World Aquatics said on Thursday. Approval from the International Olympic Committee means a maximum of two men can be selected among eight athletes in the team event that is due to

Dec 22, 2022 Associated Press TOKYO — The cost of the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics is 20% higher than organizers said when they announced official figures more than a year ago, according to a report by the board of audit of Japan. The report, which was released this week, said there was a lack of

10:08 AM ET Banned Russian athlete and Olympic 400m hurdles champion Natalia Antyukh will lose her gold medal from London 2012 after she did not appeal her doping ban, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Wednesday. The 41-year-old won the 400m hurdles title at the 2012 Games, defeating American Lashinda Demus, who will be

11:25 AM ET Kenya’s Diana Kipyokei has been disqualified as the 2021 Boston Marathon women’s winner after being handed a six-year ban for using the prohibited substance triamcinolone acetonide, the Athletics Integrity United (AIU) said on Tuesday. Compatriot Purity Rionoripo has been banned for five years after testing positive for the banned diuretic furosemide, while

2:38 AM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Danielle Serdachny scored at 2:16 of overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory over the United States in the fifth game of the Rivalry Series on Monday night. Serdachny beat goalie Nicole Hensley on the short side with a snap shot in front of 8,640 fans at

11:42 AM ET Associated Press The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee is encouraging individual sports to consider “category qualifiers” — classified in some sports as “open” categories — to ensure transgender athletes will have events to participate in once they reach puberty. The USOPC finalized its so-called position paper at its board meeting earlier this

4:54 PM ET Associated Press LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Kaillie Humphries learned to drive at Mount Van Hoevenberg. And she clearly hasn’t forgotten how. Humphries teamed with fellow U.S. Olympian Kaysha Love on Sunday to win a women’s World Cup bobsled race. It was her 29th career World Cup win in the two-person event; of