Olympics

5:58 AM ET Associated Press BRUSSELS — British cyclist Mark Cavendish broke two ribs and suffered a “small collapsed lung” during a crash at a track event in Belgium, his team said on Monday. Deceuninck — Quick-Step said in a statement that Cavendish spent Sunday night in the Ghent University Hospital following the incident at

12:52 PM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai took part in a 30-minute video call from Beijing with IOC officials and told them she was safe and well, the Olympic body said Sunday. The call came amid growing global alarm over Peng. Her appearance at a youth tennis event Sunday

12:26 AM ET Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — Defending Olympic curling champion John Shuster is going back to the Winter Games for a fifth time. The 2018 gold medalist skipped his team to victory over Team Dropkin at the U.S. trials on Sunday night, winning 5-4 to take the best-of-three finals two games to one

Nov 21, 2021 Associated Press YANQING, China — Madeleine Egle of Austria won the first World Cup women’s singles gold medal of her career, prevailing Sunday in the season opener on the track built for this winter’s Beijing Olympics. USA Luge got its first medals of the World Cup season later Sunday, with the team

Nov 21, 2021 Associated Press LEVI, Finland — Petra Vlhova got the better of Mikaela Shiffrin for the second time in two days Sunday, winning another women’s World Cup slalom in Finnish Lapland. The overall World Cup champion from Slovakia was 0.18 ahead after the first run and ultimately beat her American rival by 0.47

4:37 PM ET Associated Press GRENOBLE, France — Teenage world champion Anna Shcherbakova of Russia overcame an early tumble to clinch her second Grand Prix gold medal of the season by winning the ISU GP in France on Saturday. The overnight leader slipped launching her opening quad Lutz and fell. “I was shocked after the

2:44 PM ET Associated Press STAVANGER, Norway — Erin Jackson won her third World Cup speedskating gold of the season Saturday, taking the 500 meters in Norway. The American won in 37.602 seconds, defeating defending Olympic champion Nao Kodaira of Japan, who took second in 37.708. Jackson earned her third victory of the season over

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1:29 PM ET Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Isaiah Thomas is putting on the red, white and blue again. Thomas was announced Friday as an injury replacement for USA Basketball’s team that will open World Cup qualifying play this month in Mexico. The two-time NBA All-Star was added to the roster, along with Justin

2:43 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Thursday that the United States was considering a diplomatic boycott of next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing over China’s human rights abuses, a move that would keep American dignitaries, but not athletes, from the Games. Speaking to reporters as he hosted Canadian Prime Minister

5:24 PM ET Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa — Two-time Olympian Clarissa Chun has been named coach of the new Iowa women’s wrestling program, athletic director Gary Barta announced Thursday. Iowa said in September it would become the first school in a Power Five conference to start a women’s wrestling team. The 40-year-old Chun was

6:35 AM ET Associated Press BEIJING — The high demand for artificial snow at the Beijing Winter Olympics will have a minimal effect on the local water supply, the organizers said on Thursday. Water needed for snow making at the Yanqing zone where sliding and alpine skiing will be staged in February will account for

10:40 AM ET Associated Press MONACO — Russia’s doping suspension from track and field was extended into a seventh year on Wednesday, with cautious praise for reformers and a warning that not everyone supports their changes. World Athletics voted to maintain the suspension, which was first imposed in November 2015, at its congress. The sport’s

2:51 PM ET In a much anticipated announcement of updated policy recommendations for transgender and intersex athlete participation, the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday announced a new framework for individual international federations to develop their own eligibility criteria, instead of a blanket policy. The new guidance replaces the previous 2015 consensus statement and is a

8:55 AM ET Associated Press Three-time Olympian Adrien Theaux underwent surgery after he crashed in training in the United States and will miss the Olympic season, the French ski federation said Tuesday. Theaux fractured his left elbow and his right tibia and ankle in a super-G practice run at Copper Mountain, Colorado. The 37-year-old racer

5:25 AM ET Associated Press Greek runner Costas Gelaouzos won the 38th Athens Marathon in 2 hours 16 minutes 49 seconds on Sunday leading a sweep of the podium places by home competitors. The runner up, Panagiotis Bourikas, was more than five minutes behind, in 2:22:33, followed by Haralambos Pitsolis in 2:24:05 Greece’s Gloria-Tziovana Privilegio

8:55 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Japan’s Shoma Uno landed four quadruple jumps on Saturday to win the NHK Trophy and bolster his prospects for the figure skating event at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. First after the short program, the Olympic silver medalist received 187.57 points for a personal-best total of 290.15. Vincent Zhou

Nov 12, 2021 Associated Press TOMASZOW MAZOWIECKI, Poland — Erin Jackson became the first Black American woman to win a World Cup speedskating race. She won the 500 meters Friday at the season opener in Poland, finishing in 37.613 seconds. Defending Olympic champion Nao Kodaira of Japan was 0.13 seconds behind. The field included all