Olympics

4:53 PM ET Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia — Russia dominated the first day of the European figure skating championships on Wednesday, taking the top three positions in the men’s and pairs short programs. World champions Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov led the pairs competition after a clean skate that scored 82.36 points in a classical

9:22 AM ET Associated Press MOSCOW — The Russia-based Kontinental Hockey League, a key source of players for Olympic teams, decided Wednesday to suspend its season for a week because of COVID-19 outbreaks at many clubs. The KHL said it will stop play from Saturday and resume on Jan. 22. The league said it knew

2:20 PM ET Associated Press SCHLADMING, Austria — Mikaela Shiffrin won the last women’s World Cup slalom before the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday, while her Slovakian rival Petra Vlhova locked up the season title in the discipline. Racing on the challenging Planai course, the American improved from fifth place, posting the fastest time with an

7:49 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Florida freshman gymnast and 2017 world all-around champion Morgan Hurd announced she underwent right knee surgery on Monday to repair a torn ACL. She is expected to miss the rest of the NCAA season. “Apparently I partially tore my ACL last year and just didn’t know,” Hurd posted on Twitter

7:35 AM ET Marathon runner Brittany Charboneau has set a record of winning all four runDisney races at the Walt Disney World Marathon in Florida. The 33-year-old from Denver, Colorado won what is dubbed the “Dopey Challenge” which consists of running the 5km, 10km, half marathon, and marathon event on consecutive days — a total

4:22 PM ET Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nathan Chen blazed through an entertaining free skate Sunday to win his sixth consecutive title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, solidifying his status as one of the favorites for next month’s Beijing Olympics. Yes, there was a fall on one of his four soaring quads. Yes,

8:57 PM ET Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Madison Chock and Evan Bates knew from the crowd response that Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, their close friends and longtime rivals, had laid down a near-flawless performance at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. It took a mesmerizing, out-of-this-world show of their own to answer them. With

1:37 PM ET Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Three more skaters have withdrawn from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships after positive COVID-19 tests, bringing the total dropouts for the week to seven. Men’s competitor William Hubbart withdrew Saturday before his event began. Ice dancers Raffaella Koncius and Alexey Shchepetov, who were 11th after the rhythm

11:21 PM ET Associated Press BEIJING — Renowned Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou is promising a simpler opening ceremony for next month’s Beijing Winter Games with a bold and unprecedented way of lighting the Olympic flame. Zhang, who directed an awe-inspiring opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics in Beijing in 2008, is returning in the same

11:56 PM ET Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Friday said it would skip next month’s Beijing Olympics because of the COVID-19 pandemic and “hostile forces’ moves,” a largely redundant statement since the country has already been banned from the Games by the IOC. In September, the International Olympic Committee suspended North

8:14 PM ET Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Brittany Bowe won the women’s 1,000 meters in a track-record time at the U.S. speedskating trials Thursday to earn her third Olympic berth. The 33-year-old skater from Ocala, Florida, finished first in 1 minute, 13.63 seconds. Kimi Goetz was second at 1:14.89. Erin Jackson, the first Black woman

10:38 PM ET Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Defending champions Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier withdrew from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Wednesday night when Frazier tested positive for COVID-19. The pairs event begins Thursday at what amounts to the U.S. trials for the Beijing Olympic team. Knierim and Frazier, who became a duo

7:53 PM ET Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Ethan Cepuran rallied on the last lap to win the men’s 5,000 meters and Mia Manganello Kilburg took the women’s 3,000 on Wednesday on opening night of the U.S. Olympic speedskating trials without spectators. Cepuran made up more than a second in his pairing with Casey Dawson to

12:11 PM ET Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia — Only her Slovakian rival Petra Vlhova remained out of reach. Otherwise, Mikaela Shiffrin had a satisfying return to competition at a floodlit slalom Tuesday after testing positive for COVID-19 and missing two races last week. The American trailed winner Vlhova by five-tenths of a second in the

8:57 PM ET Associated Press ASHLAND, Ohio — Jud Logan, a four-time U.S. Olympic hammer thrower who was also a successful college track coach at Ashland University, has died. He was 62. The school announced his death on Monday. No cause was given, but Logan had been undergoing chemotherapy treatments for leukemia since 2019. Logan

Jan 3, 2022 Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — USA Swimming has canceled its first major meet of the year because of the surge in COVID-19 cases. The TYR Pro Swim Series meet had been set to run from Jan. 12-15 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Colorado-based national governing body said Monday it wanted to prioritize

9:53 AM ET Associated Press WINTERBERG, Germany — Latvia won gold in a World Cup luge team relay on Sunday, with Austria second and the U.S. grabbing third. The Latvian team of Eliza Tiruma, Kristers Aparjods and the doubles sled of Marlins Bots and Roberts Plume finished in 2 minutes, 24.294 seconds. Austria’s team of

Jan 2, 2022 Associated Press SIGULDA, Latvia — Elana Meyers Taylor of the U.S. got her first World Cup women’s bobsled win in nearly three years on Sunday, her 19th career victory on the circuit. She teamed with Lake Kwaza to finish two runs in 1 minute, 41.88 seconds. The British sled driven by Mica