Olympics
LIV Golf isn’t the only sports property being reconsidered in Saudi reboot of investment strategy
The billionaires in Saudi Arabia are pulling the plug on LIV Golf. It won't be the first mega sports project they've given up on recently.
Vonn says she is not yet in position emotionally to decide if she will race again
Lindsey Vonn is still recovering physically and emotionally from her frightening crash at the Winter Olympics. For now, the tough decisions about the future can wait.
Allyson Felix, 40, looks for a comeback and maybe a spot at the L.A. Olympics
Allyson Felix is attempting a comeback at age 40 that could give her a chance to add to her Olympic-record medal haul two years from now in Los Angeles.
France to host men’s basketball World Cup in 2031. Japan gets 2030 women’s tournament
Victor Wembanyama will have a chance to play a home World Cup in 2031.
Hockey coach who admitted using a false COVID-19 vaccine certificate at the Olympics is fired
A Swiss hockey coach who admitted he used a certificate falsely claiming he'd been vaccinated against COVID-19 to get around China's travel restrictions for the 2022 Winter Olympics has been fired.
USOPC ‘closely monitoring’ reaction to Wasserman but sidesteps questions about his LA28 leadership
The chair of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee said the board has shared its concerns about LA Olympic leader Casey Wasserman with that organizing committee's board and that the USOPC is "closely monitoring the impact on our community."
USA Surfing regains status as national governing body in time for leadup to L.A. Olympics
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee recognized USA Surfing as the official national governing body for the sport in America on Wednesday, ending a multiyear saga that included the corporation's decertification and an attempt by U.S. Ski and Snowboard to take over.
Russia swimmers get anthem, flag back as a key Olympic sport drops its restrictions
The governing body for international swimming and aquatic sports will allow athletes from Russia to compete without restrictions and with their national flag and anthem.
Craig Reedie, Olympic politics veteran who led WADA during Russian doping scandal, dies at 84
Craig Reedie, the former World Anti-Doping Agency president whose position on the Russian doping scandal a decade ago brought him into conflict with the IOC where he was a vice president, has died. He was 84.
Megan Rapinoe accuses Olympics of catering to Trump with ‘horrible’ transgender policy switch
Not all female athletes applauded when the International Olympic Committee decided to exclude biological males from women's sports.
Olympic gold medalist boxer at center of gender controversy advances to Asian semifinals
Olympic gold medalist Lin Yu-ting won her quarterfinal bout at the Asian boxing championships on Friday in her first event since World Boxing said she passed a gene test to confirm her gender.
Park City getting an Olympic-sized halfpipe again when Snow League heads to Utah in ‘27
An Olympic-sized halfpipe is returning to Park City, Utah, the resort town that helped put snowboarding on the map.
Semenya criticizes IOC chief Coventry after transgender athletes barred
Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya on Sunday expressed her disappointment with International Committee President Kirsty Coventry over the decision to ban transgender athletes from competing at the Olympics.
Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych, banned from Olympics, speaks at United Nations
Vladyslav Heraskevych was shunned by the Olympics, then invited to the United Nations.
Male-born athletes banned from women’s Olympic events in ‘monumental’ win for female sports
The International Olympic Committee announced Thursday that female-identifying male athletes will no longer be eligible for the women's field, prioritizing fairness over inclusion in a daunting but not unexpected blow to the gender-identity movement.
Malinin rebounds from Olympics at worlds with a personal-best short program
Ilia Malinin bounced back from misfiring at the Milan Cortina Olympics by leading after the short program at the figure skating world championships on Thursday.
Transgender women athletes banned from women’s Olympic events by new IOC policy
Transgender women athletes are now excluded from women's events at the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday that aligns with U.S. President Trump's executive order on sports ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games.
Shiffrin holds off Aicher to win record-tying sixth overall World Cup skiing title
Mikaela Shiffrin secured a record-tying sixth women's overall World Cup skiing title by holding off a challenge from emerging German rival Emma Aicher in the final race of the season Wednesday.
Olympic champ boxer Lin Yu-ting cleared for return to competition after approval of sex eligibility
Olympic gold medal-winning boxer Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan has been cleared to return to competition at the Asian Boxing Championships following a review of her sex eligibility.
The Hockey Hall of Fame expects to keep the U.S. Olympic gold medal-winning pucks
The Hockey Hall of Fame says the pucks used to score the gold medal-winning men's and women's goals at the Milan Cortina Olympics are part of its permanent collection after being donated by the International Ice Hockey Federation.