Kirsty Coventry, 41, was elected to one of the most powerful jobs in sports on Thursday, becoming the first woman and first African to be named president of the International Olympic Committee.
“The best of wrestling for me is when I throw people. I love to throw people.” Sophomore Sara Martinez Lopera of Thomas Kelly College Prep is passionate about her sport.
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif says that President Donald Trump’s stance on gender in sports “does not intimidate” her and plans to defend her gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics.
On March 16, 1994, figure skater Tonya Harding pleaded guilty in Portland, Oregon, to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for covering up an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan, avoiding jail but drawing a $100,000 fine and three years of probation.
NBC will now be the champion of Olympic broadcasting in the United States through at least 2036.
Two Norwegian ski jumpers are now suspended and under formal suspicion in a cheating scandal, the International Ski and Snowboard Federation said in widening its investigation of altered ski suits.
Thomas Bach says he feels a rare calm in his final weeks as IOC president even as a “new world order” gains speed ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
There’s a $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of a former Olympic snowboarder who is wanted for running a multi-national drug trafficking network and orchestrating multiple murders.
Seven people have been summoned to appear in court in Paris on Wednesday in connection with cyberbullying targeting the artistic director of last summer’s Paris Olympics’ opening and closing ceremonies.
Mikaela Shiffrin has created more history in her storied ski career by winning a World Cup slalom on Sunday.