Olympics

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The International Olympic Committee has found a sponsor in China to replace long-term commercial partner Panasonic from Japan. TCL was signed to an eight-year, four-Olympics deal through 2032 in the sponsor category of home audiovisual equipment and appliances, the IOC said on Thursday. The value in cash and operational services was not detailed.

The Olympic champion was unable to run at the inaugural event due to injury, but hundreds of kids turned out for the new event, as she bids to recover in time for the World Championships in Tokyo

In Paris, Sarah Hildebrandt became the fourth U.S. woman to win Olympic wrestling gold.

Egyptian fencer Nada Hafez says it is important to tell women "your body can surprise you" after competing at the Paris Olympics while seven months pregnant.

Khelif was embroiled in a gender row at the 2024 Games, where she won boxing gold in Paris

Kendall Coyne Schofield bids for her fourth Olympic hockey team, and first as a mom.

USA Track and Field is combining Para nationals with its annual outdoor championships.

Khelif and Lin Yu-ting were embroiled in a gender row at the 2024 Games, where each boxer won a gold medal

Whether to allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports already was a key debate among Olympic leaders before U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that puts pressure on them before the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles. In a speech before signing the document on Wednesday, Trump said he wants the International Olympic Committee to change everything “having to do with this absolutely ridiculous subject.” Outgoing IOC President Thomas Bach, who had a tense meeting with Trump during his first term in the White House, has avoided taking a strong stance on the subject, but many of the seven candidates running to replace him this year have.

The Millrose Games, the top annual indoor international track and field meet, airs live on NBC Sports and Peacock.

The US president has vowed to deny visas to any transgender athletes who want to compete at the Games in Los Angeles

President Donald Trump is ready to take his fight against transgender athletes to the International Olympic Committee. Trump said Wednesday during a signing ceremony for an executive order aimed at banning transgender athletes from women's sports that his administration wants the IOC to “change everything having to do with the Olympics and having to do with this absolutely ridiculous subject" ahead of the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles. The order empowers the Secretary of State's office to pressure the IOC to amend standards governing Olympic sporting events “to promote fairness, safety and the best interests of female athletes by ensuring that eligibility for participation in women’s sporting events is determined according to sex and not gender identity or testosterone reduction.”

The coach who helped Tom Daley win Olympic diving gold is leaving Britain's aquatics program. Jane Figueiredo was described by Aquatics GB as a “trailblazer” upon the announcement on Tuesday of her departure after 11 years. “Her impact in British diving history cannot be overstated,” Aquatics GB diving head coach Alexei Evangulov said.

Patty Gasso will be the fourth head coach in U.S. softball's Olympic history.

Noah Lyles won the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix 60m in his first top-level meet since the Paris Olympics.

Five-time Olympic medalist Gabby Thomas seeks advice on TikTok regarding stalking experiences she has been facing at airports across the country.

Noah Lyles and Marcell Jacobs race in a head-to-head between the last two Olympic 100m gold medalists.

Triathlete Georgia Taylor-Brown is this year's special guest at the Isle of Man Sports Awards.

Transgender women are increasingly likely to be banned from the female category across Olympic sport after another leading candidate to become International Olympic Committee president backed a new blanket policy.

Yul Moldauer said he missed three drug tests in a 12-month span, triggering a suspension.

A gold medal awarded at the first Olympics hosted on U.S. soil was sold at auction for over half a million dollars, part of hundreds of lots of memorabilia from the Games over the decades, a firm announced Friday. The 1904 St. Louis Olympics medal, auctioned for $545,371, bears the inscription “Olympiad, 1904” and shows a victorious athlete holding a wreath on the front. The medal, awarded to American Fred Schule, includes the original ribbon and leather case.

The London Marathon features the first matchup of Olympic marathon gold medalists in 21 years.

The situation comes amid a dispute over the Wada’s handling of a doping scandal involving Chinese swimmers competing in Tokyo in 2021

WADA and USADA confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. had declined to pay the $3.6 million it had pledged to WADA.

Ana Barbosu could become the first individual Olympic medalist from a country other than the U.S. to compete in NCAA women's gymnastics.

Erik Sullivan from the University of Texas succeeds Karch Kiraly as the U.S. women's head coach.

Olympic track and field star Fred Kerley was arrested and charged with battery. A separate charge from an unrelated incident was also filed.

Simone Biles, Sports Illustrated's Sportsperson of the Year, discusses the possibility of her competing at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

There's a chance Simone Biles won't compete in the 2028 Olympics, and as much as that sentence seems unreal, there's a reason why she's undecided about it. When Biles arrived at the 2024 Paris Olympics last year, there were many questions about whether it would be…

Who is the Athlete of the Year? USA TODAY Sports assembled a panel of writers to answer the question. Among the choices was WNBA star Caitlin Clark.

Getting asked for autographs by schoolchildren is still such a novelty for Phoebe Gill that she has to remind herself why: she raced in an Olympic semi-final aged 17.

Natalie Esquire and Callie Fin reflect on their top women’s sports moments from the 2024.

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In 2025, Olympic and Paralympic sports events will determine the favorites for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games.

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Gretchen Walsh, a Nashville native, is The Tennessean's 2024 Sportsperson of the Year.

Hannah Roberts was one of two Americans to win a senior BMX freestyle medal at world championships.

The seven candidates running for International Olympic Committee president had their manifestos published on Thursday, and one is offering to take just half of the eight-year mandate on offer and stand again in 2029. Sebastian Coe, the World Athletics president who turned 68 this year, pledged to embed “transformative change over the next four years” then seek re-election ahead of schedule. Coe was among several candidates offering to give back to IOC members — who elect their president at a March 18-21 meeting near the site of Ancient Olympia in Greece — a decisive choice in picking future host cities.

Hodgkinson pipped darts sensation Luke Littler and England’s record Test run-scorer Joe Root to the prestigious prize after winning 800m gold in Paris this summer

Ticket sales to Indiana Fever games were up 182% in 2024 from the previous season. The Fever also shattered the attendance record of 13,398 set by the Liberty in 1998 with around 16,084 tickets sold per game.

The 22-year-old is favourite to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year at Tuesday night’s ceremony after storming to Olympic glory in Paris this summer

Alex Yee will become the latest triathlon star to run a marathon.

Both Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting failed an unspecified gender eligibility test in 2023 and were disqualified from the world championships, which has sparked a controversy in Paris.

Lashinda Demus and Erik Kynard Jr. were profiled in short films following their 2012 Olympic gold medal reallocation ceremonies.

Gout Gout ran 20.04 seconds, breaking the Australian record held by 1968 Olympic silver medalist Peter Norman.

Ahmed Hafnaoui of Tunisia won the 400m freestyle at the Tokyo Olympics.

IOC president Thomas Bach has put pressure on the national boxing federations to meet certain criteria if the sport is to be included in the Los Angeles programme in four years’ time

A video of six-time Olympic medallist Dujardin whipping a horse at least 24 times in a minute was leaked ahead of the Paris Olympics leaving the future of equestrian sports at the Games under threat

Three-time Olympic equestrian gold medalist Charlotte Dujardin was suspended from all competition for one year on Thursday following a horse-whipping scandal that saw her withdraw from the Paris Games in July. Dujardin was provisionally suspended by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports on July 23 as the governing body launched an investigation into a video from four years ago showing her repeatedly whipping a horse while coaching another rider. A complaint was made to the FEI by Dutch equine lawyer Stephan Wensing on behalf of an unnamed client.

Gjert Ingebrigtsen strenuously denies the allegations, which surfaced last year