Olympics

Associated Press Nov 23, 2024, 09:27 AM ET Open Extended Reactions GURGL, Austria — Mikaela Shiffrin is taking the quest for her 100th career World Cup victory to North America. The American skiing star might even get the one win she needs for the milestone in what is like a home race for her in

Associated Press Nov 23, 2024, 08:33 AM ET Open Extended Reactions CHONGQING, China — Amber Glenn of the United States performed a personal-best free skate Saturday to win the Cup of China and secure a spot in the Grand Prix Final. Skating to “I Will Find You The Return,” Glenn, who was second after the

Associated Press Nov 22, 2024, 10:56 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WASHINGTON — The U.S. men’s basketball team is a step closer to next year’s AmeriCup tournament. Javonte Smart scored 20 points, Jahmi’us Ramsey added 18 and the U.S. rode a huge edge from 3-point range to beat Puerto Rico 108-66 in an AmeriCup qualifying

Associated Press Nov 21, 2024, 06:15 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Three investment groups have committed a combined $100 million in new funding for League One Volleyball, which owns dozens of junior clubs across the country and will operate a professional league that will launch in January. League One Volleyball, branded as LOVB and pronounced

Nov 21, 2024, 05:30 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Triple Olympic swimming champion Adam Peaty said he is not ready to make a decision about competing at the 2028 Los Angeles Games after the Brit was left frustrated by illness and some of the team’s decision-making in Paris. Peaty missed out on a third straight

Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterNov 19, 2024, 07:02 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Open Extended Reactions MÁLAGA, Spain — Rafael Nadal said he would only let his emotions break through at

Associated Press Nov 19, 2024, 09:46 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The new action-sports league being launched by Shaun White will air on NBC beginning next year. White announced earlier this year that he was putting together The Snow League, a four-stop circuit that will feature halfpipe snowboarding and freeskiing. On Tuesday, the league and

Associated Press Nov 18, 2024, 10:35 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The PWHL is taking women’s pro hockey to places from Raleigh, North Carolina, to the Pacific Northwest in releasing its nine-date schedule of neutral-site games Monday. Billed as the “Takeover Tour,” the six-team league selected six U.S. cities — Raleigh, Buffalo, Detroit, St. Louis,

Nov 18, 2024, 05:15 AM ET Open Extended Reactions A new generation of South African sprints stars has emerged since the Paris Olympics, with Bayanda Walaza and Udeme Okon among the leading names, and these teens are eschewing offers from US colleges to stay home for university. Walaza, who won silver at the Olympics 4X100m

ESPN News Services Nov 16, 2024, 08:18 PM ET Bela Karolyi, the charismatic — if polarizing — gymnastics coach who turned young women into champions and the United States into an international power in the sport, has died. He was 82. USA Gymnastics said Karolyi died Friday. No cause of death was given. Karolyi and

Associated Press Nov 16, 2024, 08:34 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LEVI, Finland — American Mikaela Shiffrin earned her record-extending 98th career World Cup win Saturday to give herself the chance to compete for victory No. 100 in front of a home crowd. Regardless of her result in a slalom in Austria next week, Shiffrin

Associated Press Nov 15, 2024, 02:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The PWHL on Friday turned to three-time U.S. Olympian and New Jersey Devils director of player development Meghan Duggan to assist in its hockey operations department. Duggan will serve as a special consultant for the six-team league entering its second season, which opens on

Associated Press Nov 14, 2024, 08:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The leader of USA Track and Field cut through confusion surrounding the 2028 Olympic trials, saying the preference is to hold them in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum several weeks before the actual Olympic track meet takes place there. Max

Associated Press Nov 14, 2024, 08:29 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARK CITY, Utah — Lindsey Vonn is coming out of retirement to rejoin the U.S. Ski Team, she announced Thursday, intending to race again at age 40 — and six years after her most recent Olympics. Vonn is a three-time Olympic medalist, including a

Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — The Premier Lacrosse League is starting a new women’s professional lacrosse league that is set to begin competition in the United States in 2025, three years ahead of the return of lacrosse as an Olympic sport for the first time in eight decades. The Women’s Lacrosse League will debut

Associated Press Nov 12, 2024, 11:05 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Dallas Long, a three-time NCAA shot put champion who won a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, has died. He was 84. He died of natural causes Sunday in Whitefish, Montana, USC said Tuesday after being informed by a family member. No further

Associated Press Nov 12, 2024, 06:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Gable Steveson, who won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, said Tuesday he is coming out of retirement and will return to the University of Minnesota for a fifth and final season of college wrestling. Steveson won gold as a freestyle

Associated Press Nov 12, 2024, 07:06 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Sarah Ourahmoune, a silver medalist at the 2016 Olympic Games, has withdrawn her bid to become president of the French boxing federation, saying she has been the target of vicious racist and sexist attacks. In an open letter published this week, Ourahmoune