Olympics

May 5, 2022 Associated Press CALGARY, Alberta — Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Moncton, New Brunswick, will host the world junior hockey championship in December and January, a tournament originally set for Russia. Hockey Canada announced the decision Thursday to play a second championship in Canada in four months. The International Ice Hockey Federation last month

6:35 AM ET Niamh Lewis In 2020, when amputee ultra runner Jacky Hunt-Broersma saw that Alyssa Amos Clark had broken the record for running 95 marathons in as many days, she thought to herself, “Well, that would be interesting to try and do. Especially running on a prosthetic leg …” Two years later, in late

2:16 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Wednesday hailed Team USA for bringing a bit of unity to a pandemic-weary nation as he hosted a White House celebration with about 600 athletes from this year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing and the coronavirus-delayed Summer Games held in 2021 in Tokyo. Among the

May 4, 2022 Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Indian discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur, who placed sixth at the Tokyo Olympics last summer, has tested positive for an anabolic steroid, the Athletics Integrity Unit said Wednesday. The AIU said Kaur has been provisionally suspended while the doping case is investigated. Kaur tested positive for stanozolol —

7:03 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden plans to host the 2020 and 2022 U.S. Olympic teams at the White House on Wednesday, celebrating athletes from the most recent winter Games while staging a much delayed, in-person celebration for participants of last summer’s Tokyo Olympics. The president and first lady Jill Biden

5:04 PM ET Associated Press MONACO — Under pressure to remove horse riding, modern pentathlon will test obstacle racing as a replacement in time for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Modern pentathlon’s governing body, known by its French acronym UIPM, said Monday it received “over 60 proposals” and will test two types of obstacle racing

May 2, 2022 Associated Press GENEVA — Figure skating’s governing body has detailed a proposal to raise the athlete age limit to 17 at the Olympics and other international events. The proposal was expected even before 15-year-old Kamila Valieva’s doping case dominated the women’s event at the Beijing Olympics in February. The International Skating Union

5:15 PM ET Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. — Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel highlight a 41-member U.S. swimming team that will compete at this summer’s world championships in Budapest, Hungary. The squad was selected at a meet in Greensboro, North Carolina, that ended Saturday night. Ledecky claimed victories in four freestyle events ranging from 200

9:44 AM ET Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. — American Hunter Armstrong has set a swimming world record in the men’s 50-meter backstroke. Armstrong posted a time of 23.71 seconds in the non-Olympic event while competing Thursday night in the international team trials at Greensboro, North Carolina. The meet is selecting the U.S. team that will

Apr 29, 2022 Associated Press GILBERT, Ariz. — As Forrest Gump in the Oscar-winning 1994 film of the same name, Tom Hanks abruptly trots to a halt after more than three years of nonstop running and tells his followers, “I’m pretty tired. I think I’ll go home now.” Jacky Hunt-Broersma can relate. On Thursday, the

7:00 AM ET Oksana Masters was born in Ukraine in 1989 with tibial hemimelia, a congenital disorder caused by the Chernobyl nuclear reactor incident. Her left leg was six inches shorter than her right and both legs were missing weight-bearing bones. She was born with six toes on each foot, five webbed fingers on each

10:39 AM ET Associated Press USA Track and Field has signed on to use technology that will give athletes an additional method to anonymously report sexual abuse and other forms of misconduct. The organization announced a deal Thursday with RealResponse, a company that serves around 100,000 athletes in nearly 1,500 pro, college, Olympic and grassroots

6:12 AM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Swimming’s world governing body FINA said Thursday that it won’t seek any extra punishment for a Russian swimmer who competed at the national championships while serving a ban for appearing at a rally in support of President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. FINA banned double

5:33 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — The Canadian Hockey League said Wednesday that Russian and Belarusian players will be ineligible for selection in its July 1 import draft because of the war in Ukraine. The CHL is the umbrella organization for the three major junior hockey leagues — the Western Hockey League, Ontario Hockey

Apr 27, 2022 Associated Press GENEVA — A Russian official was among the candidates announced Wednesday for the International Skating Union’s elections in June, if he is allowed to stand to retain his place as a vice president. Alexander Lakernik would be up against opponents from Canada, Finland and Japan if he is allowed to

6:59 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Five officers from London’s Metropolitan Police will face a gross misconduct hearing over the stop and search of two Black athletes, the force said Wednesday. Bianca Williams and her partner, Ricardo Dos Santos, who are both professional sprinters, were stopped in west London on July 4, 2020, while

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10:14 AM ET Connor O’Halloran The Ukrainian Winter Paralympic team left behind a country at war, enduring an unlikely and emotional journey to compete at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games and, incredibly, achieving an unprecedented haul of medals. Despite suffering nightmares in the little sleep they had and constantly calling home for updates, the Ukraine