Olympics

Malone is one of 10 US Olympic and Paralympic from the 2024 Games to be part of limited--edition bobbleheads.

Becky Downie is not ruling out a return to competitive gymnastics after surpassing her expectations at the Paris Olympics.

The International Olympic Committee's three major Japanese sponsors — Toyota, Panasonic and Bridgestone — are terminating their contracts. Japanese sponsors have turned away from the Olympics, likely related to the one-year delay in holding the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The delay reduced sponsors’ visibility with fans not allowed to attend competition venues, increased costs, and unearthed a myriad of corruption scandals around the Games.

Simon Amor succeeds Mike Friday as the U.S. men's rugby sevens head coach going into the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

Simone Biles has won 11 medals at three Olympics, seven of them gold

Katie Zaferes will retire from triathlon after her next race.

At the Berlin Marathon, Ethiopia swept the men's and women's titles of an annual World Marathon Major for the first time in three years.

In his first visit back to Utah since awarding Salt Lake City the 2034 Winter Games, the International Olympic Committee president sought to ease worries that the city could lose its second Olympics if organizers don't fulfill an agreement to play peacemaker between anti-doping authorities. Thomas Bach on Saturday downplayed the gravity of a termination clause the IOC inserted into Salt Lake City’s host contract in July that threatens to pull the 2034 Games if the U.S. government does not respect “the supreme authority” of the World Anti-Doping Agency. Olympic officials also extracted assurances from Utah politicians and U.S. Olympic leaders that they would urge the federal government to back down from an investigation into a suspected doping coverup.

Alexis Ohanian said Athlos will return in 2025.

Canadian Olympic swimming champion Maggie Mac Neil is retiring. The gold medalist in the women’s 100-meter butterfly at Tokyo’s Summer Games in 2021 announced the move on social media Thursday in a post that included a photo of her swimming as a child. “The little girl above would have never dreamed this is where her love of swimming would take her,” Mac Neil wrote.

Maggie Mac Neil, an Olympic swimming gold medalist, announced her retirement from the sport.

For Shannon Rowbury, the 1,500-meter final at the London 2012 Olympics was simultaneously one of the best and worst moments of her running career.

John Speraw coached the U.S. men's volleyball team at the last three Olympics.

The anti-doping program for the Paris Olympics caught five athletes after earlier finding 40 rule violations among competitors who had been expected to take part in the Games, the agency that ran the operation said Thursday. Summing up its Olympic program, the International Testing Agency said 6,130 samples were collected during the Games period in July-August from 4,150 different athletes. Taking samples from almost 39% of the athletes was “a 4% increase compared to Tokyo 2020 and 10% higher than Rio 2016,” the ITA said.

Matt Stutzman, Team USA’s self-described ‘armless archer’, wants to follow up gold with a move into a new sport

World Athletics president Lord Coe has been named as one of seven confirmed candidates to succeed Thomas Bach as International Olympic Committee (IOC) president.

Jordan Burroughs won the world championships team trials, five months after losing at the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won an invitational 400m at the Diamond League Final in Brussels.

David Taylor will compete in the USA Wrestling world championships team trials this weekend.

Field hockey player Tom Craig has been suspended for 12 months by the sport's Australian governing body for attempting to purchase cocaine at the Paris Olympics. Craig was arrested but released without charge after trying to purchase the drug in Paris on Aug. 7 during a night out after his Olympic campaign ended. “Following an investigation into the arrest involving national men’s hockey team athlete Tom Craig at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, Hockey Australia’s Integrity Unit has imposed a 12-month suspension,” the Hockey Australia statement said Wednesday.

Olympic sponsor Panasonic is terminating its contract with the IOC at the end of the year, the company said in a statement Tuesday. Panasonic is one of 15 companies that are so-called TOP sponsors for the International Olympic Committee. It's not known the value of the Panasonic sponsorship, but sponsors contribute more than $2 billion in a four-year cycle to the IOC.

Vincent Collet coached France at the last four Olympics, reaching the final in Tokyo and Paris.

Olympic fans tuning into the Paralympics for the first time are faced with an unfamiliar sight: Team USA lagging behind in the medal table.

The Paris Olympic Games was the first in history to have the same number of medals for men’s and women’s events

Great Britain outperformed expectations in Paris with 49 gold medals across the 11 days of competition

As the curtain falls on Paris 2024, Welsh Paralympians are celebrating their best medal haul in 20 years.

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson assesses how Paris did as hosts of the Paralympics, the GB performance and what we can expect at Los Angeles in 2028.

As is tradition, the medal table is ordered by the number of golds achieved by each team. At Tokyo 2020, China led the Paralympics field with 96 golds, with Great Britain second on 41 and the United States third with 37. If any countries tie on the medal table, bronze and silver medals are then taken into account.

Alfie Hewett suffered heartbreak when he was beaten by Japan’s Tokito Oda in a pulsating gold-medal match of the men’s wheelchair tennis singles at Roland Garros.

Three-time Paralympian Hunter Woodhall and his wife, Olympian Tara Davis-Woodhall, credit each other and their relationship with gold medal success.

The U.S. won the men's and women's world championships in surfing for the first time since 2011.

Lindsay Mintenko, a two-time Olympian, resigned after nearly seven years as USA Swimming national team managing director.

Sha'Carri Richardson overtook Julien Alfred, reversing their one-two from the Paris Olympics 100m.

As is tradition, the medal table is ordered by the number of golds achieved by each team. At Tokyo 2020, China led the Paralympics field with 96 golds, with Great Britain second on 41 and the United States third with 37. If any countries tie on the medal table, bronze and silver medals are then taken into account.

Surfer Carissa Moore, the Olympic gold medalist in 2021, found out she was pregnant five weeks before the Paris Olympics, her father says.

The British pair are unbeaten in five years at the French Open and a long-awaited gold medal is within reach

The two men will compete in a sprint race ahead of the Diamond League meeting in Zurich

Jake Williams led the way on Tuesday with 23 points as the U.S. defeated France 82-47 in a quarterfinal game.

Team USA’s Jaydin Blackwell and Ryan Medrano won gold and silver in the T38 men’s 400-meter race Tuesday in Stade de France.

Faye Rogers has gone from potential Olympian to Paralympic gold medallist in three years after a car crash resulted in a fused elbow.

The 21-year-old swimmer competed in the Olympic trials three years ago before a car accident on her way to university, but has fought back to win S10 100m butterfly gold at Paris 2024

Watch Julien Alfred and Sha'Carri Richardson race for the first time since the Olympics at the Zurich Diamond League, live on Peacock.

With the Paris 2024 Paralympics well under way, we take a look at how the classification system works in para-sport – and how are athletes’ classifications defined?

5-time Paralympian Rebecca Hart, debutant Fiano Howard earn gold on first day of para-equestrian.

‘Mehrzad’ was the giant, painfully shy boy too embarrassed to leave his home. Now he is a hero in his homeland and is bidding for a third sitting volleyball gold after Iran’s success in Rio and Tokyo

Ezra Frech was shocked at the results following the 100m race when he saw that he had run a personal-best 12.06 seconds.

The U.S. women’s para triathlon team completed a three-peat when Hailey Danz and Grace Norman took home gold, and Allysa Seely won bronze.

American para swimmer Morgan Stickney dominated the field in the 400-meter freestyle SM7 final, winning by a stunning 17 seconds.

Sep. 2—PARIS — South Dakota's Miles Krajewski teamed up with partner Jayci Simon to claim the United States' first para badminton medal at a Paralympic games on Monday in Paris. The pair claimed silver on Monday, Sept. 2, dropping a 21-14, 21-12 decision to China's Naili Lin and Fengmei Li in the gold-medal match at Porte de La Chapelle Arena. Krajewski graduated from Yankton High School ...

On the sixth day of the Paris Paralympics, medals are up for grabs in seven sports on Tuesday. Among the featured events is wheelchair fencing, where athletes duel with their wheelchairs securely fastened to the floor. On the fifth day of track and field at the Stade de France, Algeria’s Abdellatif Baka headlines the men’s T13 1,500 meters for those who are visually impaired.