Olympics

Sep 5, 2024, 05:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Australia’s Taymon Kenton-Smith competes competes during the archery Men’s individual recurve open. DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images AUSTRALIAN MEDALS Day 7: GOLD Editor’s Picks 1 Related Alexa Leary (swimming, women’s 100m freestyle, S9) – One of the richest redemption stories keeps getting richer. Leary smashed a world

Sep 5, 2024, 04:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions High-octane house music has propelled rising Australian swim star Alexa Leary to a Paralympic gold medal and fulfilled a prophecy set out by a fortune teller three years ago. After setting a 59.60 world record in the morning session heat at La Defense Arena in Paris,

Kalan Hooks, ESPNSep 3, 2024, 02:18 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Simone Biles is putting one of her iconic skills to rest. Biles, who is the most decorated gymnast of all time with 11 Olympic and 30 world championship medals, held a farewell ceremony for one of her signature moves — the Yurchenko double pike.

Sep 3, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Australian sprinter James Turner has smashed his own world record en route to claiming Paralympic gold in the men’s T36 400m. Turner was quickest off the mark at the Stade de France in Paris on Tuesday and began to take a lead as the runners made

Sep 2, 2024, 04:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Lauren Parker’s bid to become Australia’s first dual-sport Paralympic medallist in more than 40 years is alive after she buried the pain of Tokyo to win the gold medal in the PTWC triathlon. The 35-year-old, who missed out on gold in Japan by just one second,

Sep 1, 2024, 05:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Australia has enjoyed its most fruitful day of medals at the Paris Paralympics to date, with Nikki Ayers and Jed Altschwager leading the charge by lifting rowing gold in the PR3 mixed double sculls. Ayers and Altschwager saw off a challenge from Great Britain to record

Associated Press Sep 1, 2024, 06:43 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Gia Pergolini walked into the Paris La Défense Arena Friday to compete in the women’s 100m backstroke finals knowing she had serious business to attend to. At the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, the American 17-year-old swam an S13 world record time and knew

Associated Press Aug 30, 2024, 06:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ROME — 100, 200, 400. When it comes to sprinting, Letsile Tebogo can do just about anything. The Botswana runner clocked 9.87 seconds — and had time to glance around before easing to the line — to win the 100 meters at Rome’s Diamond

Associated Press Aug 30, 2024, 08:05 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Tunisia’s Raoua Tlili won her fifth consecutive gold medal in shot put at her fifth Paralympics on Friday while the United States captured its first gold. Tlili’s throw of 10.40 meters at the Stade de France was good enough to win the

ESPN News Services Aug 29, 2024, 11:31 PM ET Open Extended Reactions COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — USA Swimming CEO Tim Hinchey is leaving after seven years to pursue other opportunities, it was announced Thursday. During his tenure, Hinchey helped establish new programs to counter sex abuse in the sport but also lost support among grassroots

Open Extended Reactions PART 1 Ali Truwit gathers her gear as she stands on the deck of a boat floating off Turks and Caicos in the Atlantic Ocean. It’s a warm and sunny day in May, ideal for snorkeling. Sophie Pilkinton, her former Yale swimming teammate, asks her to pose for a photo. Ali grins.

ESPN News Services Aug 28, 2024, 05:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Just weeks after hosting the Olympics, Paris inaugurated the 2024 Paralympics on Wednesday with an opening ceremony nearly four hours long in the heart of the city. Against the backdrop of a setting sun, thousands of athletes paraded down the famed

Sunaadh Sagar Aug 28, 2024, 01:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions India are sending a record 84 athletes to the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, and naturally hopes are high that they can recreate the magic of Tokyo, where India won a record 19 medals. Five of those 19 were gold, and it’s not far-fetched

ESPN News Services Aug 25, 2024, 12:49 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHORZOW, Poland — Armand Duplantis broke the world record in the pole vault again, this time clearing 6.26 meters in a Diamond League meet in Poland on Sunday. Duplantis, the Louisiana-born 24-year-old who competes for his mother’s native Sweden, added another centimeter to

Associated Press Aug 25, 2024, 11:36 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway broke the 28-year-old world record in the 3,000 meters by more than three seconds during a Diamond League meeting in Poland on Sunday. Ingebrigtsen clocked 7 minutes, 17.55 seconds at the Silesian Stadium in Chorzow. It shattered the previous best

Associated Press Aug 24, 2024, 08:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Two weeks removed from the Paris Games, gold medal swimmer Caeleb Dressel is already making plans for Los Angeles. The 28-year-old Dressel said Saturday at Daytona International Speedway that he would like to end his competitive career racing the 50-meter

Associated Press Aug 23, 2024, 02:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Former gold medalists Steve Serio and Nicky Nieves have been chosen as the United States’ flag-bearers for the Paralympic opening ceremony, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced Friday. Serio has helped the U.S.’s wheelchair basketball team to gold medals at the

Associated Press Aug 22, 2024, 02:20 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Daniela Larreal Chirinos, a five-time Olympic cyclist who competed for Venezuela over the course of two decades, has died. She was 51. Larreal was found dead at home in Las Vegas the afternoon of Aug. 15 after a friend called police for a welfare