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Discus thrower Mykolas Alekna breaks oldest world record in men’s track and field

Mykolas Alekna broke a 37-year-old world record in the men’s discus.

Santiago 2023 Pan Am Games - Day 9

Evy Leibfarth makes Paris team, hopes to be busiest U.S. female kayaker in Olympic history

Evy Leibfarth is the first American to qualify for the Paris Olympics in caoneing.

Laila Edwards

Laila Edwards hat trick propels U.S. women’s hockey team into world championship final

The U.S. women’s hockey team goes for a repeat world title on Sunday in Utica, New York.

TYR Pro Swim Series San Antonio - Day 4

Kate Douglass swims another historic time at last Tyr Pro Series meet before Olympic Trials

Kate Douglass won the 200m breaststroke in the third-fastest time in American history.

Day 1 - World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023

American record holder Alicia Monson has season-ending surgery

Distance runner Alicia Monson underwent meniscus surgery.

TYR Pro Swim Series Westmont - Day 3

Lilly King prepares for third Olympic swimming bid with career endpoint in mind

Lilly King plans to continue swimming beyond this summer, but not all the way to 2028.

TYR Pro Swim Series San Antonio - Day 3

Torri Huske wins Olympic Trials butterfly preview, just misses American record

Torri Huske missed her American record in the 100m butterfly by four hundredths of a second at a Tyr Pro Series meet.

World Athletics Championships. Budapest 2023.

Triple jumper Yulimar Rojas to miss Olympic title defense in Paris due to injury

Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela injured her Achilles tendon and will miss the Paris Olympics.

CLIMBING-PANAM-2023-SANTIAGO

American Sam Watson breaks speed climbing world record twice

Paris Olympic qualifier Sam Watson lowered the speed climbing world record twice in one day.

Switzerland v United States: Group A - 2024 IIHF Women's World Championship

U.S. women’s hockey team rolls into world championship semifinals

The U.S. women’s hockey team eyes a repeat world title at its first home worlds since 2017.

TYR Pro Swim Series San Antonio - Day 2

Katie Ledecky, Caeleb Dressel open Tyr Pro Series meet with wins as Olympic Trials near

Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel won with their best times this year at a Tyr Pro Swim Series meet in San Antonio.

SWIM-WORLD-2023

Katie Ledecky, Caeleb Dressel headline last Tyr Pro Swim Series meet before Olympic Trials

San Antonio hosts the last Tyr Pro Swim Series meet before the Olympic Trials in June.

World Athletics

World Athletics to award prize money to Olympic gold medalists in Paris

World Athletics says it will be the first international sports federation to pay Olympic gold medalists.

2024 Gymnastics British Championships - Day Four

Max Whitlock plans to make Paris his final Olympics

British gymnast Max Whitlock plans to retire after the Paris Olympics.

Paris Olympic Rings

Olympic rings to adorn Eiffel Tower

A set of Olympic rings will be installed on the Eiffel Tower for the Paris Games.

Olympische Spiele Athen 2004...

Diana Taurasi hits 20 years on USA Basketball national team, still remembers 2004 voicemail

Diana Taurasi played her first game for the U.S. senior national team on April 9, 2004.

Switzerland v United States: Group A - 2024 IIHF Women's World Championship

Teen Kirsten Simms lifts U.S. over Canada in overtime at hockey worlds in group play

The U.S. went 4-0 in group play, capped with a win over rival Canada.

British Swimming Championships 2024 - Day Six

Matt Richards, Duncan Scott hold off Olympic champ Tom Dean at British swim trials

Matt Richards and Duncan Scott beat Tom Dean in the 200m freestyle at the British Olympic trials.

2022 World Rowing Championships

Kara Kohler leads Olympic rowing trials winners, eyes second medal

Five rowers were added to the U.S. Olympic team at trials in Sarasota, Florida.

Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup - Women's Giant Slalom

Mikaela Shiffrin, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde announce engagement

Alpine skiers Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde announced they are engaged.

63rd Itzulia Basque Country 2024 - Stage 3

Jonas Vingegaard breaks collarbone, ribs in cycling crash

Two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark sustained injuries in what his team called a “nasty crash.”

Hampton Morris

Hampton Morris breaks world record, closes in on Olympic weightlifting spot

Hampton Morris became the first American man to break a senior weightlifting world record since 1969.

Kelly Cheng, Sara Hughes

Kelly Cheng, Sara Hughes reunited and are headed to Paris as world champions

Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes are set to compete at the Paris Olympics as reigning world champions.

Joseph Schooling, Michael Phelps

Joseph Schooling, who won Olympic gold over Michael Phelps, retires from swimming

Singapore’s Joseph Schooling, the 2016 Olympic 100m butterfly champion, announced his retirement.

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