Olympic Sports
With the Olympics underway, some of the central questions are what to make of, what to expect from and where to place this new team.
“It’s always been a dream that I’ve had since I started playing hockey,” Zimmer said.
“I just think about how I got so lucky that this is my wife, and I get to see her — someone that’s literally at the pinnacle of their sport, and I get to call this my wife,” Owens said.
The ceremony starts at 12:30 p.m. Chicago time and is expected to last more than three hours. It will air on NBC-5 and stream on Peacock.
From Korbin Albert to Maddie Zimmer, we have the list of athletes with ties to the area.
Utah’s capital city was the only candidate for 2034 after the Olympic committee gave Salt Lake City exclusive negotiating rights last year.
Traveling abroad on a plane, going through customs, having her bags X-rayed and checked by foreign agents and drug-sniffing dogs no doubt brought back flashes of her 2022 arrest for “drug smuggling” in Moscow.
Coach Matt Eberflus was happy to let him leave, calling it “so cool” for Owens.
Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos were expelled from the 1968 Games for their silent protest, but their gesture is recognized as noble today.
Olympian opens up about her sadness after the 2020 Games and her marriage to the Bears’ Jonathan Owens.
The 31-year-old singer is expected to represent South Korea in the torch relay in hopes of spreading the message of “harmony” and “peace.”
The network didn’t help itself with a confusing interface on its nascent streaming service, Peacock. It further angered viewers by putting men’s basketball games behind the streamer’s paywall.
‘‘Once you’re told you made the team, there’s an enormous amount of joy that comes over you,’’ Weatherspoon said.
The guard pool too deep for rookie to replace veteran on the talented U.S. women’s basketball roster.
Good Lord, what more do you need? Aren’t eyeballs the whole package, the goal? The U.S. women’s Olympic basketball team has won seven consecutive gold medals. Like, Clark will damage that?
Such heights they’ve reached. Such shared glory. And their unlikely story only gets better.
With Mother’s Day coming Sunday, remembering a powerful 2016 commercial from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Yamaguchi became the first Asian American to win an individual figure skating gold medal, at the 1992 Winter Olympics.
The four-time Olympic gold medalist revealed what was going through her mind in the 2020 Summer Olympics on an episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast posted on Wednesday.
She thought the backlash from her fans was “hilarious at first — and then they hurt my feelings.”