Of the 35 cities that received the IOC’s letter asking if they’d be interested in hosting the 2024 Olympics, most assume it’s down to New York and Los Angeles, and maybe Dallas, now that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said his city isn’t interested after losing out on the 2016 Games.
Three-time London Olympics medalist Aly Raisman is prepping to dance with the stars in a couple weeks, but apparently she isn’t quite done chasing Olympic gold medals.
The IOC’s evaluation commission is in Tokyo this week to inspect the potential 2020 host city and see if it really is “second to none” as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday.
Bulgarian national wrestling coach Armen Nazaryan has begun a three week hunger strike to protest the IOC’s decision to recommend his sport’s removal from the 2020 Olympic Games.
Talks about pro players participating in Sochi among the NHL, IIHF, and IOC are slow and going as the sides try to negotiate a way for the NHL to be compensated for the disruption that a two-week break causes in their season, not to mention the risk of injury to its players.
Those who’ve had a hankering for gymnastics ever since watching the Fierce Five take gold in London are in luck: the 2013 season kicks off at the American Cup in Worcester, Mass. this weekend.
After missing out on winning gold at the London Games last summer due to back surgery, Lakers center Dwight Howard is itching to get back in the Olympics, and only had two words when asked if he plans to play in Rio in 2016: “No doubt.”
Fourteen IOC officials are starting their three city tour this week, which will take them from Tokyo to Madrid to Istanbul as they evaluate each city vying to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.
Lolo Jones is going back to the track after her first successful season on the bobsled circuit, but says she’s not done with her new winter sport, and plans to compete for a medal next February in Russia.
Under Armour announced Thursday that it’s inked an eight-year deal with USA Gymnastics to keep the team suited up for two Olympic cycles, starting at this weekend’s American Cup in Worcester, Mass.
Swimming legend Michael Phelps was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Tuesday to discuss his London gold medals - and the silvers he wish hadn’t won - as well as his recent return to the golf course as part of the Golf Channel’s Hank Haney Project.
Three-time 2013 Alpine skiing world champ Ted Ligety recently strapped a GoPro camera on his person during a training run down next year’s Olympic giant slalom course in Sochi, Russia, so that fans could see what he sees on his way down the hill.
After next February’s Sochi Winter Games, Russia is apparently planning to grow the country’s cycling program by turning one of the resort town’s skating venues into a “top-class” velodrome.
While many are freaking out about wrestling being cut from the 2020 Games, possibly for squash, the world cricket community is using a “great deal of effort” to get their sport included in the 2024 Olympics program to boost its global exposure.
Russia’s Sagid Murtazalie, following the lead of Bulgarian champion Valentin Yordanov, has also returned his gold medal to the IOC Tuesday, in protest of the organization’s recommendation to remove the sport from the 2020 Olympics.
Dancing With the Stars is adding another two Olympic gold medalists to their roster this season, as London gymnast Aly Raisman and 1976 figure skating champ Dorothy Hamill will face off for the relatively coveted Mirror Ball Trophy Both women will hope to follow in the dance steps of speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno, figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi, and Beijing gymnast Shawn Johnson, who all won their respective seasons.
Duke Blue Devils basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski reiterated the fact that he won’t be back to coach Team USA this summer while speaking with ESPN Radio’s Mike and Mike Tuesday, and said the team is likely to hire his successor soon so the team can prepare for the 2014 World Championships in Madrid.
Olympics long jumper and general athletic freak Marquise Goodwin has been impressing football scouts at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis this week, running a near record 4.27 seconds in the 40-yard-dash, and somehow broad jumping 11-feet.
There are still nine races to go in the women’s Alpine season, but Slovenian Tina Maze has already won the World Cup title and is now aiming to have the best season in the sport’s history.
Swimming legend Michael Phelps was on Dan Patrick’s radio show Monday morning to chat about his retirement from swimming, his reality TV debut, and what he would give to be a better golfer.
