Olympics

Associated Press Oct 19, 2024, 11:01 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Wakaba Higuchi won her first Grand Prix event after more than eight years of trying Saturday night, putting together an error-free program at Skate America to edge Japanese teammate Rinka Watanabe and American star Isabeau Levito. Higuchi finished with 196.93 points at Credit Union

Oct 19, 2024, 02:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions France’s Cassandre Beaugrand recovered from a dreadful start at the women’s triathlon world championship finals in Torremolinos, Spain, on Saturday to add a first world title to her Olympic gold medal from the Paris Games. The 27-year-old crossed the finish line in a time of 1

Associated Press Oct 18, 2024, 10:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Isabeau Levito channeled her inner Holly Golightly in a stylish performance set to music from the film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” on Friday night to lead after the short program at Skate America, the opening event of figure skating’s Grand Prix season. The reigning world

Oct 17, 2024, 04:02 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Two athletes, one from Britain and the other from Mexico, died on Thursday on the first day of the Torremolinos-Andalucia Triathlon Championship Finals, World Triathlon said. Both athletes were competing in the age-group sprint event. Local media reported that the 57-year-old British athlete suffered a cardiac

Associated Press Oct 17, 2024, 03:22 PM ET LOS ANGELES — A former Olympic snowboarder for Canada has been charged with running a drug trafficking ring that shipped vast amounts of cocaine across the Americas and killed several people, authorities said Thursday. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest

Associated Press Oct 16, 2024, 09:43 AM ET Open Extended Reactions BONN, Germany — Yannic Seidenberg, who won the silver medal with the German men’s hockey team at the 2018 Olympics, has had his doping ban cut by 18 months. The 40-year-old forward had filed an appeal against a four-year ban imposed last year over

Associated Press Oct 15, 2024, 09:01 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The president of the suspended Russian Olympic Committee said Tuesday he plans to step down after six years in charge. Stanislav Pozdnyakov’s statement comes just over two months after a delegation of 15 Russians competed at the Paris Olympics as “Individual Neutral Athletes” without

Anthony Gharib, ESPNOct 13, 2024, 04:25 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Noah Lyles proposed to his girlfriend, Junelle Bromfield, on Saturday, he announced in a video posted across his social media accounts. The 2024 Olympic gold medalist in the men’s 100m dash popped the question in front of a bundle of pink flowers shaped into

Associated Press Oct 13, 2024, 11:26 AM ET Open Extended Reactions CHICAGO — Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya smashed the world record by nearly two minutes at the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, winning in 2:09:56. Chepngetich, 30, broke the world record set by Tigist Assefa of Ethiopia in 2:11:53 at the 2023 Berlin Marathon. Sutume Asefa

ESPN News Services Oct 12, 2024, 10:46 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Italy’s Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli won the first-ever Women’s America’s Cup after beating Britain’s Athena Pathway on Saturday. Luna Rossa led from the start and won the six-leg match race off the Barcelona beachfront eight seconds ahead of the British boat. “Speechless, it’s

Oct 12, 2024, 11:36 AM ET Open Extended Reactions New Zealand beat Britain in the opening America’s Cup races on Saturday, with the holders setting the pace in the early skirmishes with the challengers in the first-to-seven contest. The wins give New Zealand a 2-0 lead, with co-helms Peter Burling and Nathan Outteridge delivering two

Associated Press Oct 11, 2024, 11:01 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SALZBURG, Austria — American ski star Mikaela Shiffrin won’t race downhills in the upcoming World Cup season in which she aims for her 100th career win. Following the worst crash of her career in January, the two-time Olympic champion even considered not racing at

Oct 10, 2024, 09:27 AM ET Open Extended Reactions British cyclist Mark Cavendish is set to compete in his final professional race at the two-day Tour de France Criterium in early November, race organisers have said. Cavendish, 39, nicknamed the “Manx Missile”, amassed 165 victories, including a record 35 stage wins at the Tour de

Aaditya Narayan Oct 10, 2024, 07:25 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The Indian men lost to Chinese Taipei in the semifinal of the team event at the Asian Table Tennis Championships on Thursday, but in the process, secured a third consecutive bronze medal in this event. This was also India’s seventh medal at the Asian

Associated Press Oct 10, 2024, 06:33 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The International Olympic Committee has set a Jan. 30 date for the key presidential election meeting where seven candidates will meet with voters ahead of their ballot in March. The closed-doors meeting at IOC headquarters is the only set campaign event

Associated Press Oct 9, 2024, 09:51 AM ET ZURICH — Swiss downhill racer Niels Hintermann will miss the entire ski season after being diagnosed with lymph node cancer. Hintermann, 29, a three-time race winner on the World Cup circuit, revealed the diagnosis Wednesday at a news conference. Hintermann noticed a swelling in his neck after

Sunaadh Sagar Oct 9, 2024, 07:46 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The Indian women’s team of Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Ayhika Mukherjee, Suthirtha Mukherjee and Diya Chitale made history by winning India’s first-ever medal at the Asian Table Tennis Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan after winning bronze following their loss to Japan in the semifinal. India’s

Associated Press Oct 8, 2024, 09:55 AM ET Open Extended Reactions WASHINGTON — A bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday to award Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” Olympic hockey team that defeated the heavily favored Soviet Union in Lake Placid, New York, at a period of