Olympics

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

11:37 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — The operating budget for the 2024 Paris Olympics is expected to go up by 10%, in part because of high inflation, organizers said Tuesday. The organizing committee, known as COJO, had an original operating budget of around 4 billion euros ($4.1 billion) but will present a revised figure

11:47 PM ET Associated Press SEATTLE — Hilary Knight had two goals and an assist, Nicole Hensley stopped 22 shots, and the United States beat Canada for the third straight time, 4-2 in the Rivalry Series on Sunday night. Abby Roque and Savannah Harmon also scored for the U.S., which won 4-3 in a shootout

9:08 AM ET Associated Press LEVI, Finland — Overall World Cup champion Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States wasted no time in taking control of a new season, sweeping the two season-opening races Sunday. Shiffrin posted the fastest time in both runs on the way to her 49th slalom victory, just a day after winning

12:27 AM ET Associated Press SAPPORO, Japan — Japan’s Shoma Uno defended his title at the Grand Prix of Figure Skating’s NHK Trophy, scoring a season-best free skate and total score to beat compatriot Sota Yamamoto. Uno, the Beijing Winter Olympic bronze medalist, scored 188.10 for his free skate to total 279.76 at the Makomanai

9:15 AM ET Associated Press LEVI, Finland — World Cup champion champion Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States claimed the season-opening women’s World Cup race on Saturday for her 48th slalom victory. No other skier has won more titles in a single competition. Shiffrin moved to the top with the fastest second run after placing

3:51 PM ET Associated Press U.S. decathlon champion Garrett Scantling will miss the Paris Olympics because of a ban imposed after he falsified an email in trying to cover up a missed doping test. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said Friday that the 29-year-old Scantling, who won national championships earlier this year, had accepted a three-year

Nov 18, 2022 Associated Press For the first time in 12 years, USA Basketball is not atop the world men’s rankings. FIBA, the sport’s governing body, updated its rankings Friday, and Spain moved into the top spot, a sliver ahead of the U.S. The four-time defending Olympic champion Americans moved into the top spot after

6:37 AM ET Associated Press MOSCOW — Alexander Gorshkov, who won the first ice dance gold medal at the 1976 Olympics and later became a leading official in Russian figure skating, has died. He was 76. The Russian Figure Skating Federation said in a statement on Thursday that Gorshkov “died suddenly” without giving further details.

Nov 16, 2022 Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. — A Southern California water polo coach was convicted Wednesday of sexually assaulting teenage girls during underwater training sessions while he claimed to be preparing them for competition, prosecutors said. Jurors convicted Bahram Hojreh — who coached for the International Water Polo Club in Los Alamitos, California,

1:24 PM ET Associated Press PARIS — Two people died Wednesday when a motorboat following the Route du Rhum solo trans-Atlantic sailing race capsized off the coast of Guadeloupe, just as the winner was reaching the finish line, race organizers said. The exact circumstances of the accident are being determined. The boat had been carrying

1:02 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Reigning Olympic all-around champion and Auburn sophomore Sunisa Lee announced Tuesday that she would conclude her NCAA career at the end of the 2023 season to return to elite gymnastics. In an Instagram post, the 19-year-old said she would be turning her focus to making the U.S. team for the

8:00 AM ET Brian Windhorst and a team of ESPN’s Insiders sort out life and the news from in and around the NBA world. Victor Wembanyama carries the date in his mind, a sinister anniversary he apparently has been unable to let go. “That loss, I have thought about it every day since July, 11,

7:00 AM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva faces a potential four-year doping ban which would rule her out of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Monday. CAS said it had registered an appeal from the World Anti-Doping Agency, which said last

8:17 AM ET An Iranian archer has said she did not notice her hijab falling from her head during an awards ceremony in Tehran, after a video appeared to show her allowing the headscarf to drop in what was widely assumed to be a show of support for nationwide protests. In a video posted on

6:43 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — USA Basketball still has some work to do before clinching a berth in next year’s World Cup. Bruno Caboclo scored 24 points, Georghino De Paula added 18 and Brazil greatly improved its chances of making the 32-team World Cup field by beating the U.S. 94-79 in a qualifying

Nov 10, 2022 Associated Press LAGUNA HILLS, Calif. — Authorities on Thursday were looking for three Olympic medals belonging to a member of the U.S. women’s volleyball team after they were stolen from a Southern California home. The medals were being temporarily stored at a Laguna Hills home and were inside a safe that was

12:15 PM ET Gwendolyn Oxenham The North Carolina Courage tradition is to begin each practice with a joke. They don’t warm up or kick balls until that joke’s been told. In the first training session of 2021, the team stood huddled together on the practice field, wondering who would tell the first one of the