Olympics

12:27 AM ET Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah — Germany won three of five World Cup races held Saturday at the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics sliding track, while Emily Sweeney and Brittney Arndt won medals for the U.S. Germany got gold in the women’s race, with Dajana Eitberger holding off Sweeney for the victory, as

11:46 AM ET Richard Callaghan, a once-celebrated figure skating coach, has agreed to refrain from coaching minors as part of a legal settlement with one of the former students who has accused him of abuse. Craig Maurizi, a skater-turned-coach, has repeatedly alleged that Callaghan sexually abused him on numerous occasions when he was a young

Dec 15, 2022 M.A. VoepelESPN.com Close M.A. Voepel covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. Billie Moore, who was the first U.S. Olympic women’s basketball coach and led UCLA to the 1978 national championship, died Wednesday

9:45 AM ET Spend five or 10 minutes talking with any woman who has been fortunate enough to play for the United States national hockey team. At some point in that discussion, they will share why the need to make time for others remains so important for their sport because they understand the value of

12:35 PM ET Associated Press MILAN — Italian Olympic Committee president Giovanni Malagò is confident everything is on track for the country’s first Olympics in two decades but admits that the past few years have been akin to “running a marathon with a backpack.” Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo will stage the 2026 Winter Games and

7:02 PM ET Associated Press MONACO — United States sprinter Randolph Ross has been banned for three years for whereabouts failures and faking an email to anti-doping authorities. The Athletics Integrity Unit announced Tuesday that the back-to-back NCAA champion from North Carolina A&T will be suspended until June 30, 2025, meaning he’ll be ineligible for

4:08 PM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — A second bronze medal will be awarded to end a dispute over third place in women’s skicross at the Beijing Olympics. Under a settlement reached 10 months after the race — and following a second change in the result — both Fanny Smith of Switzerland and Daniela

9:03 AM ET Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel, who pleaded guilty to common assault of two teenaged girls before the world championship road race in September, had his convictions and fine overturned by a judge in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court on appeal. The 27-year-old had been charged with two counts of common assault

Dec 12, 2022 Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham will be among the new members of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic board of directors beginning in 2023. Cunningham will start on the board as Duke’s former athletic director Kevin White leaves — keeping a major-college presence on a governing

12:48 PM ET Associated Press The leader of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee conceded it would be “impossible” to monitor which athletes have supported the war in Ukraine if a plan is devised to allow some Russians to compete as neutrals in international competitions, and potentially the Olympics. USOPC chair Susanne Lyons said Monday

9:21 AM ET Associated Press SESTRIERE, Italy — Wendy Holdener had a lengthy wait for her first slalom victory. The Swiss skier made it two out of two Sunday. And this time she didn’t have to share the top spot. Holdener improved on her second position after the opening run to triumph in Sestriere, finishing

4:27 PM ET Associated Press Shoma Uno finally has the medal the Japanese figure skater has long coveted from the Grand Prix Final. The reigning world champion, who had twice finished second and third at the finale of the Grand Prix season, held off countryman Sota Yamamoto on Saturday to capture gold. Uno followed his

4:25 PM ET Associated Press Japanese pairs skaters Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara narrowly edged Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier at the Grand Prix Final on Friday in a rematch of their head-to-head showdown won by the Americans at the world championships. Miura and Kihara became the first pair from Japan to win the capstone

12:22 PM ET Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Nike Hoop Summit, an annual event that pits top U.S. high school players against a team of International players age 19 and under, is adding a women’s matchup for the first time. The next summit will be in Portland on April 8, USA Basketball announced

Dec 9, 2022 Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Russia could return to some international sports events and Olympic qualifiers by competing as part of Asia, rather than Europe. International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach welcomed a “creative” plan Friday to allow athletes from Russia and its ally Belarus to join competitions in Asia after more

12:26 PM ET Associated Press Longtime sports executive Tracy Marek will take over as the head of U.S. Figure Skating in January, becoming the first woman chief executive in the 101-year history of the national governing body. The organization announced Marek’s hiring in a statement Thursday, the same day one of the strongest and deepest

7:41 PM ET Associated Press World-record setters Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Mondo Duplantis were named Athletes of the Year by World Athletics on Monday, adding more accolades to a remarkable 2022 for both athletes. McLaughlin-Levrone, the 23-year-old American, broke her own world record in the 400-meter hurdles twice during the year, the last coming at world

10:53 AM ET Associated Press IGLS, Austria — The opening weekend of the World Cup luge season was perfect for Austria. It was pretty good for Emily Sweeney too. Austria claimed gold medals in all five races Sunday to cap a perfect 8-for-8 weekend for the host nation, which also swept wins in three races