Olympic Sports
Only recently have many athletes felt free to take their issues public.
They are seeking $10 million each from the FBI, claiming a bungled investigation by agents led to more abuse by the sports doctor, lawyers said Thursday.
Sharing a weekend with the Red Sox home opener — the city’s other sporting rite of spring — more than 28,000 runners returned to the streets from Hopkinton to Copley Square six months after a smaller and socially distanced event that was the only fall race in its 126-year history.
Most WNBA players have been hesitant to talk about Griner’s detention on apparent drug charges in Russia, hoping to avoid potentially hurting her case.
The about-face came less than 24 hours after the International Paralympic Committee announced it would allow Russians and Belarusians to compete when the Games open on Friday.
The move comes after the IOC urged sports bodies to exclude the country’s athletes and officials from international events.
The request from the Olympic body came after UEFA moved the Champions League final from St. Petersburg to suburban Paris, and after the governing body of skiing and Formula One pulled upcoming races from Russia.
One of Europe’s biggest events, the Champions League final, will be moved from St. Petersburg.
As it did with China, the IOC can envision India as a new frontier that will yield deep-pocketed sponsors, television rights deals and generous government support.
I’m done with the Winter Olympics, a charade of nations that is corrupt and hypocritical to its core.
The next Olympics will be the Summer Games in Paris in 2024. Milan-Cortina in Italy will host the 2026 Winter Games.
The Finns knocked off the favored Russians 2-1 Sunday to win the men’s hockey tournament without NHL players at the Beijing Games.
Losing the case means the U.S. skaters will receive their medals months, maybe even years, from now, after Russian skater Kamila Valieva’s doping case winds its way through hearings and appeals.
The 31-year-old LeDuc and pairs partner Ashley Gain-Gribble placed seventh in their Olympic debut.
Arseni Gritsyuk scored the winner to cap off an eight-round shootout and put the Russians into the final against Finland.
The American-born Gu won two golds and one silver at Beijing, making her the first action-sports athlete to win three medals at the same Olympics.
Anna Shcherbakova, the overlooked world champion, delivered a clean performance in her free skate to win a stunning gold medal.
Last chance at medal ends after she skis out of slalom portion of the combined.
Canada won gold for the fifth time in seven chances.
This is the first time since 2006 neither the U.S. nor Canada made the final four at the Olympics.
American men have won six of nine medals since slopestyle made its Olympic debut in 2014.
Glen Ellyn’s Ethan Cepuran and Oak Park native Emery Lehman take home medals.
“It’ll be a moment I won’t forget for a long time,” U.S. hockey player Matt Knies said of facing Slovakia. His parents were born in the European country.
Becky Hammon and Penny Taylor are also among this year’s group of inductees.
Skating despite a positive drug test, Valieva started her pursuit of a second gold medal with a score of 82.16 points on Tuesday.
“The only difference I see is I’m a black young lady,” Richardson tweeted.
The ruling doesn’t decide the fate of the gold medal she won as part of the team competition. The United States won silver and would be in line for gold if the Russian medal is revoked.
The cross-border rivals will play on Thursday after Canada erupted for five first-period goals over an Olympic record span of 3:24 in a 10-3 win over Switzerland.
Elana Meyers Taylor of the U.S. was second in 4:20.81 — 1.54 seconds back — for her fourth Olympic medal, one that came after she took a year off following the Pyeongchang Games to become a mother.
Though he’s expected to land at Amazon, which will begin broadcasting “Thursday Night Football” exclusively next season, Michaels said even he doesn’t know where he’ll be.