Olympics

10:46 AM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — American sprint great Allyson Felix and a refugee cyclist originally from Afghanistan joined the International Olympic Committee’s athletes’ commission on Thursday. Felix is the most decorated woman track and field athlete in Olympic history with seven gold medals and joins the commission after winning her 14th career

7:40 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — With two years to go until the Paris Olympics open, Russia is making plans for its athletes to live and compete in the French capital even though many remain barred from upcoming qualification events because of the war in Ukraine. Russian Olympic Committee president Stanislav Pozdnyakov wrote on

3:15 AM ET ESPN staff Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra has been ruled out of the Commonwealth Games due to a groin injury, says Rajeev Mehta, general secretary of the Indian Olympic Association. Chopra won silver at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon on Sunday, but had spoken about a groin strain after the event. Speaking

5:50 PM ET Associated Press Hockey Canada released a plan on Monday to combat the “toxic” culture in its sport. It comes ahead of a second round of parliamentary hearings into the organization’s handling of sexual assault complaints. The plan includes putting together a centralized tracking and reporting system for abuse complaints by the end

11:40 PM ET Associated Press EUGENE, Ore. — It only made sense that Sydney McLaughlin would run the last, victorious lap of world championships for the United States. It only made sense she would win that race by a lot. America’s burgeoning speed star turned a close 4×400-meter relay into a laugher on the anchor

1:59 PM ET Associated Press PARIS — Jonas Vingegaard won his first Tour de France title Sunday after coming out on top of a thrilling three-week duel with defending champion Tadej Pogacar. The 25-year-old Vingegaard became the first Danish rider to win cycling’s biggest race since Bjarne Riis in 1996. Vingegaard, who was runner-up to

11:30 PM ET Associated Press EUGENE, Ore. — The U.S. women pulled a shocking upset over Jamaica in the 4×100 relay at world championships Saturday, while the men finished second after a sloppy baton exchange that has become a ritual for that star-crossed team. Andre DeGrasse beat Marvin Bracy to the line by .07 seconds

11:12 PM ET ESPN News Services EUGENE, Ore. — In the hurdles world before Sydney McLaughlin, it took years to shave fractions of seconds off records, and winning races didn’t always mean rewriting history. This once-in-a-lifetime athlete is obliterating that mindset as quickly as she’s destroying the records she sets again and again. For the

1:36 PM ET Hockey Canada released a statement Friday saying it has been made aware of an “alleged group sexual assault” involving members of its 2002-03 national junior team during the 2003 IIHF World Junior Championship in Halifax, Nova Scotia. TSN/CTV reporter Rick Westhead notified Hockey Canada of the alleged assault in an email Thursday

11:12 PM ET Associated Press EUGENE, Ore. — Noah Lyles crouched down, put his hands on his knees and glared at the clock. Not seeing what he’d hoped for, he waved his hand dismissively and walked back onto the track to celebrate what was still a long-awaited win in the 200 meters at the world

12:11 PM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Britain will host a figure skating Grand Prix event for the first time after the International Skating Union awarded it an event that China relinquished amid concerns over the coronavirus. The ISU said Thursday that the English city of Sheffield will hold the Nov. 11-13 event. It

8:46 PM ET Associated Press EUGENE, Ore. — World 100-meter champion Fred Kerley will not be available for the U.S. relay team later this week due to a leg injury he suffered while running the semifinals of the 200. Kerley’s agent, Ricky Simms, said the sprinter sustained a slight injury to his quadriceps during the

2:20 AM ET Great Britain’s Jake Wightman took a superb world championship 1,500m gold as he outkicked Olympic champion and hot favourite Jakob Ingebrigtsen on the final lap on Tuesday, with his proud father Geoff calling him home as the stadium announcer. Wightman’s father and coach somehow kept his emotion in check, though he did

12:02 PM ET Associated Press FOIX, France — Canadian cyclist Hugo Houle claimed an emotional first-ever grand tour stage victory on Tuesday, while Jonas Vingegaard stayed in the overall lead of the Tour de France after a tough 16th stage as the race hit the Pyrenees. Houle attacked on the approach to the final climb,

7:19 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics kicked off a six-year countdown on Monday with the announcement of the dates for the Games’ return to the city. The opening ceremony will be July 14. Competition will run through July 30. The Paralympic Games will be Aug. 15-27. “This milestone

5:42 PM ET ESPN News Services EUGENE, Ore. — That mile-wide smile would come a split second later. When Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce saw her name come up first Sunday night in the 100-meter final, she pumped her right fist in the air twice and let out a loud scream toward the stands. Yep, she did it.

9:10 AM ET British sprinter Dina Asher-Smith recorded the fastest time in the women’s 100 metres heats at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday. Jamaican trio Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson also advanced to Sunday’s semifinals. Asher-Smith came within one hundreth of a second of the British record with a time

5:03 PM ET Associated Press EUGENE, Ore. — Endurance icon Sifan Hassan wasn’t going for three medals this time. Now, she won’t even get two. The Dutch distance workhorse got outraced to the line in a fight-to-the-finish 10,000 meters Saturday at world championships. She finished fourth, behind Letesenbet Gidey of Ethiopia, Hellen Obiri of Kenya