Kyle Dake won the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials and can complete a decade-plus journey at the Paris Games.
Posted: May 1, 2024, 6:37 pm
The head coach of Britain's women's gymnastics has stepped down on the eve of the European championships and less than 100 days before the Paris Olympics. David Kenwright has left his role after seven years with British Gymnastics, the organization said Wednesday. British Gymnastics said performance director of Olympic disciplines Tracy Whittaker-Smith and technical advisor Scott Hann would lead the team into the Paris Games.
Posted: May 1, 2024, 4:26 pm
The Olympic Games returns to Paris this summer for a third edition in the French capital, with a packed schedule featuring 329 events across 19 days
Posted: May 1, 2024, 3:48 pm
Team Kenya have announced their Olympic marathon team for Paris 2024
Posted: May 1, 2024, 3:32 pm
British Gymnastics' head coach for women’s artistic gymnastics David Kenwright leaves just three months before the Paris Olympics.
Posted: May 1, 2024, 2:53 pm
The U.S. Olympic fencing team for the Paris Games includes 20 athletes.
Posted: May 1, 2024, 2:00 pm
Eliud Kipchoge and Peres Jepchirchir look to repeat as Olympic marathon gold medalists in Paris.
Posted: May 1, 2024, 10:42 am
A third runner on the Refugee Olympic Team has been suspended for a positive doping test, with the announcement coming two days before the IOC confirms its selection of athletes for the Paris Games. Anjelina Nadai Lohalith was notified of her alleged use of the banned heart medication trimetazidine and provisionally banned, track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said. It gave no timetable for a disciplinary case.
Posted: April 30, 2024, 10:48 pm
WADA's legitimacy as a 'steadfast regulator of global anti-doping policy' called into question.
Posted: April 30, 2024, 7:21 pm
Olympic medal hopefuls are privately warning of anti-China protests in Paris amid mounting outrage over the “contamination” doping-test furore around 23 swimmers prior to the previous Games.
Posted: April 30, 2024, 7:09 pm
The U.S. wheelchair rugby team was announced for the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Posted: April 30, 2024, 5:53 pm
Pita Taufatofua, who gained fame as Tonga's shirtless flag bearer in Rio and Tokyo, missed Paris qualification in taekwondo and kayak.
Posted: April 30, 2024, 1:47 pm
Great Britain’s team for the Olympic Games in Paris this summer is starting to take shape.
Posted: April 30, 2024, 1:19 pm
US athletes write to the country’s drug tsar asking for a “truly independent investigation” into 23 Chinese swimmers who competed at the Tokyo Games despite testing positive for a banned drug.
Posted: April 30, 2024, 11:16 am
After qualifying for the canoe slalom on April 14, Bryson City kayaker Evy Leibfarth qualified for two more Olympic events over the weekend.
Posted: April 29, 2024, 6:45 pm
Amber Rutter, a shooter on Team GB, recently said, “I’m going there for gold, and don’t ever get that mistaken.”
Posted: April 29, 2024, 12:45 pm
Gjert Ingebrigtsen, who coached Jakob Ingebrigtsen to Olympic gold, is accused of hitting one of his younger children with a wet towel
Posted: April 29, 2024, 10:44 am
Meet some of Great Britain's gymnasts who are hoping for European success this month before this summer's Olympics.
Posted: April 29, 2024, 7:01 am
The third time was the charm for Coon, who has twice nearly achieved his goal of competing in the Olympics.
Posted: April 28, 2024, 8:05 am
Casey Eichfeld edged Zachary Lokken for the U.S. men's Olympic spot in canoe slalom.
Posted: April 27, 2024, 11:37 pm
Gabby Douglas returned to competition at the American Classic gymnastics meet as she makes a Paris Olympic bid.
Posted: April 27, 2024, 8:44 pm
Gabby Douglas is officially back. Whether the gymnastics star’s return to the sport carries all the way to the Paris Olympics remains to be seen. Douglas, who became the first Black woman to win the Olympic all-around title when she triumphed in London in 2012, competed for the first time in eight years on Saturday at the American Classic. The 28-year-old looked rusty in spots and promising in others while posting a score of 50.65 in the all-around. Douglas qualified in multiple events for the U
Posted: April 27, 2024, 6:31 pm
Daniel Roberts beat Olympic gold medalist Hansle Parchment of Jamaica in two Diamond League races.
Posted: April 27, 2024, 1:05 pm
The head of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach has backed the World Anti-Doping Agency in a row over its handling of positive drug tests by 23 Chinese swimmers.The head of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), Travis Tygart, has called the situation a "potential cover-up" with the positive tests never made public at the time.
Posted: April 27, 2024, 6:17 am
Riversport OKC is hosting U.S Olympic Team Trials on Friday and Saturday. Here's a recap of Friday's action.
Posted: April 26, 2024, 11:46 pm
Noah Lyles races at the USATF Bermuda Grand Prix. Sha'Carri Richardson is entered in a Diamond League meet.
Posted: April 26, 2024, 11:00 am
Georgia hires Cecile Landi, who has coached Simone Biles since 2018, as one of its new head coaches for women's gymnastics team
Posted: April 26, 2024, 1:48 am
Georgia tabs Cecile Landi, Simone Biles' longtime coach, as co-head coach of women's gymnastics team
Georgia has hired Cecile Canqueteau-Landi, a longtime personal coach of Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles, to help lead the GymDogs, the school's women's gymnastics program. Athletic director Josh Brooks made the announcement Thursday. Canqueteau-Landi will serve as a co-head coach alongside Ryan Roberts, who spent the last two years as an assistant under Courtney Kupets Carter.
Posted: April 26, 2024, 1:43 am
Two hours after the World Anti-Doping Agency “invited an independent prosecutor” to probe its handling of a controversial case involving Chinese swimmers, the agency’s most vocal critic labeled the review a “whitewash” and “absolutely unacceptable.”
Posted: April 25, 2024, 8:55 pm
High jumper Ezra Frech won a world title and broke a world record last year. Since then, the Tokyo Paralympic gold medalist return to the sport.
Posted: April 25, 2024, 7:47 pm
There were allegations Chinese swimmers were allowed to take part in Tokyo 2020 despite testing positive for a banned substance
Posted: April 25, 2024, 6:06 pm
LeBron James returns to the U.S. Olympic team for the first time since 2012 London Games as the oldest men's player in American history.
Posted: April 25, 2024, 3:34 pm
Olympic champion Adam Peaty calls for greater anti-doping transparency in sport after it emerged 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned substance before the Tokyo 2020 Games.
Posted: April 24, 2024, 4:50 pm
A dispute over the handling of a 2021 case in which 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned performance-enhancing substance ahead of the Tokyo Olympics now threatens to overshadow swimming events at the Paris Games this summer.
Posted: April 23, 2024, 11:01 pm
Michael Johnson plans to launch a new track and field league in 2025, while Alexis Ohanian is investing in a new women’s only invitational in 2024.
Posted: April 23, 2024, 8:41 pm
The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) called Tuesday for an overhaul of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and an independent investigation into Chinese swimmers testing positive before the Tokyo Olympics.WADA, however, said Tuesday it stood by the decision not to challenge CHINADA findings that the swimmers had unwittingly ingested the substance from food at a meet, a result accepted by World Aquatics that allowed the Chinese swimmers to compete in Tokyo.
Posted: April 23, 2024, 7:15 pm
Aquatics GB says it is "extremely concerned" after it emerged 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned drug before the Tokyo Olympics.
Posted: April 23, 2024, 1:20 pm
Simone Biles, Novak Djokovic and Aitana Bonmati won Laureus World Sports Awards.
Posted: April 22, 2024, 7:44 pm
WADA confirmed that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned drug. WADA explained why the swimmers weren't punished and why it was kept secret
Posted: April 22, 2024, 7:41 pm
Twenty-three Chinese swimmers tested positive before the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 but were cleared to compete after it was found to be caused by contamination.
Posted: April 22, 2024, 8:57 am
WADA is alleged to have kept positive drug tests by 23 Chinese swimmers secret from the public and did not suspend or disqualify the swimmers.
Posted: April 21, 2024, 6:06 pm
Former Ohio State wrestler and NCAA champion Kyle Snyder is just the 11th American to qualify for three Olympic Games.
Posted: April 21, 2024, 2:30 pm
Recapping the 2024 U.S. Olympic wrestling trials, where Jordan Burroughs fell short, Amit Elor showed out and 13 athletes booked tickets to Paris.
Posted: April 21, 2024, 11:57 am
Peres Jepchirchir broke the women's only world record to win the London Marathon.
Posted: April 21, 2024, 11:09 am
Adam Coon punched his ticket to the Paris Olympics, while former Fowlerville wrestling teammate Dalton Roberts moved one step closer to qualifying.
Posted: April 21, 2024, 3:57 am
Helen Maroulis led the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials winners and the first 13 wrestlers to make the team for Paris.
Posted: April 21, 2024, 3:45 am
These Penn State Olympic Wrestling Trials ended with a dramatic upset, a comeback and a win for a lost father.
Posted: April 21, 2024, 3:12 am
Reigning Olympic gold medalist David Taylor had an automatic bye at 86 kg but was upset by fellow Penn State wrestler Aaron Brooks at trials.
Posted: April 21, 2024, 1:24 am
A dozen Chinese swimmers who competed at the Tokyo Olympics, including gold medalists, tested positive for a banned substance eight months prior but were never punished.
Posted: April 20, 2024, 8:10 pm
WADA accepted that Chinese anti-doping authorities said positive drug tests for swimmers were the result of contamination.
Posted: April 20, 2024, 7:45 pm