The third time was the charm for Coon, who has twice nearly achieved his goal of competing in the Olympics.
Author: Livingston Daily | Daily Press & Argus
Posted: April 28, 2024, 8:05 am
Casey Eichfeld edged Zachary Lokken for the U.S. men's Olympic spot in canoe slalom.
Author: NBC Sports
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.
Author: NBC Sports
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
Author: NBC Sports Philadelphia
Posted: April 27, 2024, 6:31 pm
Daniel Roberts beat Olympic gold medalist Hansle Parchment of Jamaica in two Diamond League races.
Author: NBC Sports
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. 
Author: AFP
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.
Author: The Oklahoman
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.
Author: NBC Sports
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
Author: USA TODAY Sports
Posted: April 26, 2024, 1:48 am
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.
Author: Associated Press
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.”
Author: Yahoo Sports
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.
Author: NBC Sports
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
Author: The Independent
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.
Author: NBC Sports
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.
Author: BBC
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.
Author: CNN
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.
Author: USA TODAY Sports
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.
Author: AFP
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.
Author: BBC
Posted: April 23, 2024, 1:20 pm
Simone Biles, Novak Djokovic and Aitana Bonmati won Laureus World Sports Awards.
Author: NBC Sports
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
Author: USA TODAY Sports
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.
Author: BBC
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.
Author: USA TODAY Sports
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.
Author: The Columbus Dispatch
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.
Author: USA TODAY Sports
Posted: April 21, 2024, 11:57 am
Peres Jepchirchir broke the women's only world record to win the London Marathon.
Author: NBC Sports
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.
Author: Livingston Daily | Daily Press & Argus
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.
Author: NBC Sports
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.
Author: York Daily Record
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.
Author: USA TODAY Sports
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.
Author: Yahoo Sports
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.
Author: NBC Sports
Posted: April 20, 2024, 7:45 pm
The World Anti-Doping Agency accepted China's findings that 23 swimmers tested positive for a banned drug due to substance contamination.
Author: USA TODAY Sports
Posted: April 20, 2024, 2:13 pm
The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has confirmed that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned drug before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but accepted the country’s findings that this was due to substance contamination.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: April 20, 2024, 12:27 pm
Jordan Burroughs was defeated at the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials in a bid to make a third Olympic team.
Author: NBC Sports
Posted: April 20, 2024, 2:44 am
Olympians Kyle Dake, Adeline Gray, Helen Maroulis, David Taylor and Kyle Snyder all have byes to the finals.
Author: USA TODAY Sports
Posted: April 19, 2024, 10:09 pm
World Athletics' decision to award prize money at the Paris Olympics "undermines the values of Olympism", a group of sport federations say.
Author: BBC
Posted: April 19, 2024, 3:29 pm
Sprinter Christine Mboma says an enforced hiatus impacted her mental health but she did not lose hope of a return.
Author: BBC
Posted: April 19, 2024, 7:15 am
The 2024 Olympics will be in Paris, France. It is the third time the French capital has hosted the summer Games, the first being in 1900 and the second in 1924, exactly 100 years ago.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: April 18, 2024, 1:56 pm
The Olympic Trials begin Friday, and Granger native Sarah Hildebrandt has been seeded straight into the championship round of her weight class.
Author: South Bend Tribune
Posted: April 18, 2024, 1:20 pm
Sha'Carri Richardson makes her 2024 season debut at the first Diamond League meet in Xiamen, live on Peacock.
Author: NBC Sports
Posted: April 18, 2024, 1:06 pm
Olympic and Paralympic sport is facing a huge real-terms fall in budget for the next cycle to Los Angeles 2028, with funding body UK Sport preparing to cut a quarter of its employees this summer.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: April 18, 2024, 9:39 am
Evy Leibfarth qualified Sunday for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in canoe slalom. She looks to add two more events to her schedule this month.
Author: Asheville Citizen-Times
Posted: April 18, 2024, 9:23 am
Two-time world champion Kento Momota said Thursday he is retiring from international badminton aged 29, admitting he had never been the same since a serious car crash four years ago.- 'A lot of hardship' - Smiling broadly throughout his 45-minute press conference but pausing often to choose the right words, Momota said he had no regrets about retiring from top-level badminton.
Author: AFP
Posted: April 18, 2024, 8:24 am
Emma McKeon, who won seven medals in Tokyo, plans to end her Olympic career in Paris.
Author: NBC Sports
Posted: April 17, 2024, 11:01 pm
World Relays take place in the Bahamas from May 4-5.
Author: NBC Sports
Posted: April 17, 2024, 8:11 pm
NBC has tabbed Noah Eagle, 27, as its voice for both USA men's and women's basketball at the 2024 Paris Olympics. He's grateful network 'trusted' him.
Author: USA TODAY Sports
Posted: April 17, 2024, 7:05 pm
Simone Biles detailed what was going through her head when she experienced the "twisties" at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Author: USA TODAY Sports
Posted: April 17, 2024, 6:35 pm
USA Basketball men’s senior team managing director Grant Hill has assembled a legendary who’s who of NBA stars for the USA at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Author: USA TODAY Sports
Posted: April 17, 2024, 5:56 pm
It has been eight years since a "normal," non-COVID Olympic Games. Paris 2024 is, in a sense, the palate-cleansing Games.
Author: Yahoo Sports
Posted: April 17, 2024, 1:26 pm