Olympics

6:25 PM ET Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah — Germany’s Francesco Friedrich continued the perfect start to his bobsled season Saturday, winning a four-man race for his 70th career World Cup victory. Friedrich and the team of Thorsten Margis, Candy Bauer and Alexander Schuller finished their two runs in 1 minute, 33.62 seconds. It was

Dec 3, 2022 Associated Press IGLS, Austria — Madeleine Egle won a women’s luge World Cup race Saturday to lead the Austrians’ dominant season-opening showing on home ice, while Emily Sweeney of the U.S. finished second in the women’s race to match her best finish on the circuit in five years. Austria also took golds

5:40 PM ET Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah — Olympic champion Kaillie Humphries of the U.S. had the fastest time in both runs on her way to winning a World Cup monobob race on Friday. It was Humphries’ second medal in as many monobob races this season and put her atop the World Cup standings.

12:39 PM ET Associated Press More than 900 documented or alleged incidents of on-ice discrimination like verbal taunts, insults and intimidation happened in Hockey Canada across all levels and age groups during the 2021-22 season. The national sport organization’s first-ever report that tracks the issue shows 512 penalties for discrimination were called by officials, while

5:50 PM ET Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Olympic ice dancers Maia and Alex Shibutani along with Paul E. George, who served as the director of the U.S. Olympic Committee, were elected to the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame on Thursday. The trio will be inducted Jan. 28 during the U.S. figure skating

Dec 1, 2022 Two-time Olympic gold medalist Eliud Kipchoge will run in the 2023 Boston Marathon. It’s his first time competing in the race, which is set for April 17, 2023 and will be broadcast on ESPN. Kipchoge won the Olympic marathons in 2016 (Rio de Janeiro) and 2020 (Tokyo). He won the 2022 Berlin

6:11 AM ET Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Italian official Luciano Rossi has beaten incumbent president and Russian billionaire Vladimir Lisin to become the new head of the governing body for Olympic shooting. Rossi beat Lisin to become president of the International Shooting Sport Federation on Wednesday in an unusually close and combative election

12:07 AM ET Associated Press BOSTON — The Boston Athletic Association on Wednesday named Jack Fleming as its new president and chief executive officer. The association, which manages the Boston Marathon, said in a statement that Fleming will assume the post immediately. He replaces Thomas Grilk, who stepped down from his posts on April 30

1:05 PM ET Associated Press Russia and Kenya, two of the most troubled counties on the international doping front, received encouraging news from track and field’s ruling body on Wednesday, though any possible reprieve for Russia was tempered by the sport’s intent to keep the country’s athletes out of international meets until the war in

6:02 PM ET Associated Press LAKE LOUISE, Alberta — Marco Odermatt is already living up to his billing as the favorite for the overall World Cup title, beating Aleksander Aamodt Kilde to win a super-G on Sunday for his second victory in three races this season. The Swiss star was third in the other race

Nov 27, 2022 Associated Press KILLINGTON, Vt. — Wendy Holdener’s lengthy wait for a slalom victory came to an end Sunday, although the Swiss skier had to share top spot with Anna Swenn Larsson. Mikaela Shiffrin finished fifth while bidding for a sixth straight win in Killington. The American was fastest in the first run

9:24 PM ET Associated Press WHISTLER, British Columbia — Kim Kalicki and Anabel Galander of Germany won the opening women’s bobsled World Cup race of the season on Saturday, holding off the Swiss duo of Melanie Hasler and Nadja Pasternack. Kalicki drove to the win in 1 minute, 45.93 seconds. Hasler’s time was 1:46.13. Kaillie

7:12 PM ET Associated Press ESPOO, Finland — American figure skater Ilia Malinin swept his Grand Prix assignments by taking the men’s gold medal at the Grand Prix of Espoo on Saturday, making the rising 17-year-old star one of the favorites to win at Grand Prix Final. The stop in Finland replaced the Rostelecom Cup,

Nov 26, 2022 Associated Press LAKE LOUISE, Alberta — Speed specialist Aleksander Aamodt Kilde won the rescheduled first downhill of the season on Saturday. The Norwegian skier edged out Daniel Hemetsberger of Austria by 0.06 seconds in Lake Louise, Alberta. Defending overall World Cup champion Marco Odermatt was third, 0.10 behind Kilde. The 30-year-old Kilde

Nov 26, 2022 Associated Press KILLINGTON, Vt. — World champion Lara Gut-Behrami improved on her second run Saturday to win her first World Cup giant slalom in more than six years, with Mikaela Shiffrin finishing 13th. Gut-Behrami was third in the opening run on the course in Killington, Vermont, but did just enough to edge

8:39 PM ET Associated Press WHISTLER, British Columbia — Canada took the top two spots in the first women’s monobob World Cup race of the season Friday, while Olympic champion Kaillie Humphries of the U.S. won the bronze. Bianca Ribi finished her two runs in 1 minute, 50.89 seconds for her first win on the

5:24 AM ET Associated Press DOHA, Qatar — Kenya faces the prospect of being banned from international athletics because of doping problems that have now reached “crisis” levels, according to authorities in the country. The threat of an imminent ban by track and field governing body World Athletics, which would have repercussions for a number

8:32 PM ET Associated Press WHISTLER, British Columbia — Olympic champion Hannah Neise of Germany won the opening women’s skeleton World Cup race of the season Thursday, while Hallie Clarke of the U.S. tied for second in her debut and gave the American program its best finish in nearly six years. Neise finished two runs