Olympics

Aquatics athletes from Russia and Belarus, if approved to compete as neutrals, can now compete in swimming relays and synchronized diving events.

Jane Figueiredo was named an International Olympic Committee Coaches Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.

Gable Steveson plans to compete for the University of Minnesota wrestling team.

Griggs broke the record set by Team GB Olympian Andrew Butchart in June 2023 by one second

The U.S. went one-two in ice dance at a Grand Prix other than Skate America for the first time.

The track star won the gold medal in the women’s 200-meter final at the Paris Summer Olympics

Madison Chock and Evan Bates seek a record-extending 25th Grand Prix podium at NHK Trophy.

The United States Nordic combined program has been salvaged for the upcoming World Cup season, receiving desperately needed financial help from the International Ski and Snowboard Federation. FIS gave Nordic Combined USA a grant last week, a contingency the Steamboat Springs, Colorado-based nonprofit needed to enter a new partnership with its Norwegian counterpart. Americans who compete internationally in Nordic combined, which encompasses ski jumping and cross-country skiing, lost funding for training and coaching from USA Nordic Sport last June.

The Algerian won gold in Paris, a year after being disqualified at the IBA’s World Championship

Imane Khelif, the gold medal-winning boxer at the centre of the Olympic gender controversy at Paris 2024, is taking legal action over reports in France that leaked medical documents claim she has male XY chromosomes.

Tokyo Olympic beach volleyball gold medalist Alix Klineman announced on social media on Monday she is retiring from the sport, about three weeks after her “A-Team” partner April Ross said she is moving on. Ross, 42, led Southern California to back-to-back NCAA championships in indoor volleyball before switching to the beach.

Olympic gold medalist Alix Klineman plans to retire from beach volleyball after this AVP season.

Abdi Nageeye and Sheila Chepkirui were surprise winners of the New York City Marathon.

Sydney will be the seventh annual World Marathon Major.

Abdi Nageeye outlasted 2022 champion Evans Chebet to win the men's 2024 New York City Marathon. Sheila Chepkirui won the women's race.

Olympic silver medalist race walker Koki Ikeda of Japan has been provisionally banned for suspected blood doping, track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said on Friday. Ikeda was second in the 20-kilometer event at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and placed seventh at the Paris Olympics three months ago.

A combined five Olympics between them, friends and gymnasts Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles are learning from each other, and inspiring the next generation – just by being themselves.

Jenny Simpson, arguably the best female miler in U.S. history, plans to retire after the New York City Marathon.

Great Britain's two-time Olympic rower Rebecca Edwards announces her retirement from the sport after a career she has describes as "amazing" but "painful".

U.S. champions Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea eye rare international success for a U.S. pairs' team.

USA Track and Field will manage Para track and field, which has been managed by the USOPC.

Olympic gold medalist David Taylor is competing in the final wrestling tournament of his career.

Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic funding from the Government is expected to increase by £9 million per year for Los Angeles 2028 in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Budget.

The 10 athletes nominated are road and cross country runners and race walkers.

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles speaks to USA TODAY about her philanthropic work and a wide range of other topics.

Karch Kiraly, a three-time Olympic champion player, was named coach of the men's national team through the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics by USA Volleyball on Thursday.Named the greatest player of the 20th century by the International Volleyball Federation, Kiraly was a key player on the 1984 and 1988 US men's Olympic gold medal squads and won gold in beach volleyball in 1996.

Karch Kiraly, who coached the U.S. women's volleyball team at the last three Olympics, will now coach the men.

A survey finds many of Britain's Olympic and Paralympic athletes may be unable to compete through to the Los Angeles Games in 2028 unless funding increases.

The Algerian won gold in Paris, a year after being disqualified at the World Championship

David Taylor hopes to wrestle Abdulrashid Sadulayev at the world championships in his last tournament.

Manteo Mitchell is bidding to make the Winter Olympics, 14 years after he ran in the Summer Olympics.

Stanislav Pozdnyakov, the Russian Olympic Committee president since 2018, will be replaced after upcoming elections.

The president of the suspended Russian Olympic Committee said Tuesday he plans to step down after six years in charge. Stanislav Pozdnyakov's statement comes just over two months after a delegation of 15 Russians competed at the Paris Olympics as “Individual Neutral Athletes” without the national flag or anthem as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The athletes did not represent the ROC, whose IOC recognition was suspended last year, and Pozdnyakov had been sharply critical of the neutral rules.

"I'm glad I can say I lived it to the fullest and that it was an absolute BLAST," said Ross while reflecting on her career

Olympic medalists Noah Lyles and Junelle Bromfield posted video of their engagement.

The 2024 Chicago Marathon streams live on the NBC Chicago channel on Peacock.

INTERVIEW: Despite 100m disappointment at the Olympic Games, Asher-Smith’s fit and fast season has vindicated her bold move to the United States – even if she feels like a ‘London girl’ in the wrong city, she tells Lawrence Ostlere

Alpine skier Nina O'Brien broke her left leg at the 2022 Olympics and again in 2023. She's back.

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

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.