Olympics

Teddy Riner holds the record of five Olympic judo gold medals.

Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk won world championships medals in the long jump and triple jump.

Alonso represented Paraguay during the 2024 Paris Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Pearne-Webb led Great Britain to a first ever the nation’s first Olympic hockey gold since 1988

Great Britain's Olympic champion and captain Hollie Pearne-Webb announces her retirement from hockey.

The 2025 World Athletics Relays featured the debut of the mixed-gender 4x100m.

Clayton Murphy is the only U.S. men's 800m medalist since 1992.

Zhao won over the Crucible as he stormed to an unlikely world title

Former WNBA star and 5-time Olympic gold medalist Sue Bird is becoming managing director of USA Basketball women's national team. Here's what to know.

The World Athletics Relays air live on Peacock this weekend.

Olympic gold medalist Sha'Carri Richardson is back for fashion's biggest night at the 2025 Met Gala. Here's what she wore for her appearance:

Lisa Carrington has won an Olympic or world title every year since 2011, save the 2020 COVID year.

The 27-year-old had threatened the New Zealand national record with a blazing 10k a day before the incident

The nine-time Olympic gold medallist continued her resurgence with a remarkable swim

The world record in the women’s 800-meter freestyle has been untouchable for nearly nine years since Katie Ledecky swam it in 8:04.79 at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. No one had come within two seconds of that time since. That all changed Saturday. And Ledecky, naturally, was the one to do it. The American swimming legend broke her own record in the event at the TYR Pro Series in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., finishing in 8:04.12 to beat her previous unmatchable time by over a half-second, highl

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone last lost a 400m hurdles race in 2019.

US Olympic sprinter Fred Kerley was arrested for misdemeanor battery on Thursday after allegedly striking ex-girlfriend and Olympic hurdler Alaysha Johnson at a hotel in Florida.

The World Surf League will crown world champions in a new way starting next season.

U.S. Olympic sprinter Fred Kerley was arrested for alleged battery two days before he was set to compete at a Grand Slam Track event in Miami.

The debate over transgender women in sports has only intensified since the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of a woman

Simone Biles took two years off from competing before starting to train again for the Paris Olympics—but this time on very different terms.

USA Volleyball has named three-time Olympic medalist April Ross as head of coaching for the beach national teams, turning to one of the country’s most successful beach volleyball players after the Americans had their first-ever medal shutout in Paris. The national governing body said the southern California native will work to improve the performance of “our top American athletes on the international stage” as it looks ahead to hosting the 2028 Los Angeles Games. “I’m honored to join USA Volleyball in this new role and look forward to working with our coaches and athletes to continue the legacy of success on the international stage,” Ross said.

April Ross retired in 2024 after winning an Olympic medal of every color.

In her book, "The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles," Aimee Boorman lays out her novel approach within gymnastics.

How did the women’s 1500m in the 2012 London Olympics get its unenviable reputation? Athletes who were cheated out of medals talk about what happened that day – and how the results have slowly unravelled

Key figures from the U.S. and Italy emphasized the opportunity for these Games to represent not only sport at its highest level, but also strategic coordination.

Great Britain's record-breaking weightlifter Emily Campbell says she is planning to open a dedicated strength-training gym to try to "inspire" more people to take up the sport.

The Tyr Pro Swim Series Fort Lauderdale stop airs live on Peacock next week.

World Relays are May 10-11 in Guangzhou, China.

Simone Biles, the world's most-decorated gymnast, says she is unsure if she will compete at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

Simone Biles adds another feather to her cap.

Simone Biles says she is unsure whether she will compete at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028 due to the demands her sport places on her body

The 28-year-old said she is yet to decide whether to compete in Los Angeles in 2028

Simone Biles remains undecided whether her glittering, medal-filled Olympic career will have one final chapter in Los Angeles in 2028. The U.S. superstar won her ninth, 10th and 11th Olympic medals at the Paris Games last summer, emphatically completing what she had labelled her “redemption tour” following the low of Tokyo. There, in 2021, she pulled out of the team final because of a mental block that gymnasts call ‘the twisties’, where competitors are disoriented and feel they are lost in the

It’s tough to find a professional athlete that had a better 2024 than USA Olympic gymnast Simone Biles. The 28-year-old bounced back from a forgettable performance at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, in which she took silver in the team event and bronze in the balance beam before withdrawing from the vault ...

Simone Biles' former coach revealed that the superstar gymnast experienced the "twisties" ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics, according to ESPN.

Simone Biles suffered from the condition in the run-up to the 2016 Olympics, five years before the condition severely disrupted her performance in Tokyo

The Los Angeles Olympic Games in 2028 will now feature a mixed-gender team golf event, the International Golf Federation (IGF) confirmed on Tuesday.

After suffering a tough defeat in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Australian boxer Harry Garside spoke about the motivation behind his comeback to the ring. The 27-year-old, who is renowned for his style both inside and outside of the boxing ring, suffered a devastating first-round loss to ...

The IOC announced a mixed-team event for 2028 that will be played between the men's and women's competitions.

LA28 reveals Dodger Stadium will be the home for Olympic baseball in 2028, joining other familiar pro, college venues in the area as host sites.

Last week, news came out that mixed-team golf was coming to the 2028 Olympics. Now we know the format for the competition.

The International Golf Federation announced Tuesday how mixed-gender golf will look in the 2028 LA Games.

World Team Trophy airs live on Peacock from April 17-20.

Everything you need to know ahead of the annual race

Greg Meehan was an Olympic team head coach in Tokyo and served as Stanford's head coach for 13 seasons.

Mixed teams are coming to golf at the Los Angeles Olympics. The International Olympic Committee made it official Wednesday when it released the official program for the 2028 Games, in which female athletes are expected to have a slight majority for the first time. Golf only returned to the Olympic program at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games after a 112-year absence, and it has awarded medals to only one competition — 72 holes of stroke play — for men and for women.

The 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles will feature new mixed-gender team events in several marquee sports, including golf and gymnastics.

The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday approved several adds to the Olympic program for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, including more women’s teams in soccer and water polo and new events in swimming and other sports. The women’s soccer tournament will expand from 12 teams to 16, making it larger than the men’s tournament for the first time in Olympic history. The men’s tournament — which is for players under 23 years old, with three exceptions per team — will be reduced from 16 to 12 tea

Skateboarders must be born in 2014 or earlier to be eligible for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.