We’ve seen a more than passionate response from American wrestling fans after Tuesday’s recommendation by the IOC to eliminate the sport from the 2020 Olympics program.
After a less eventful day two of the the IOC’s executive board meeting in Switzerland, President Jacques Rogge said he’s already been contacted by Raphael Martinetti, president of the International Wrestling Federation, and is encouraged by their enthusiasm.
Wrestling was effectively ousted from the 2020 Olympics schedule in an IOC executive committee vote Tuesday at the headquarters in Switzerland, but that doesn’t mean it’s down for the count.
While everyone was a bit shocked that modern pentathlon, which was expected to be dropped from the 2020 Olympic schedule during a vote Tuesday, was instead pardoned by the IOC in exchange for wrestling, the head of the MP’s governing body celebrated victory.
Vancouver downhill champ Lindsey Vonn posted a photo and message on Facebook Monday to thank fans and let them know she’s back home in Vail, Colo. resting up after her surgery to repair a fracture and multiple ligament tears in her knee following a crash at worlds in Austria last week: “Success!
Ted Ligety followed up his surprising super-G victory at the world championships in Schladming, Austria last week with another world title Monday, taking gold in the combined with a time of 2:56.96 to hold off Croatia’s Ivica Kostelic by 1.15 seconds.
Golf will return to the Olympics for the first time in more than a century when it’s contested (with or without Rory McIlroy) at the Rio Games in 2016.
Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn is recovering after knee surgery Sunday to repair her right ACL and MCL and a fractured lateral tibial plateau, all of which all injured during a fall in Austria last Tuesday.
Modern pentathlon is on the Olympic chopping block this week in Lausanne, Switzerland as the IOC meets to suggest which sport to eliminate from the Games to make way for something new.
Reigning Olympic champ Evan Lysacek stopped by the set of TODAY earlier this week to discuss his goal of becoming the first American man since Dick Button in 1952 to win back-to-back Olympic gold, and to talk about his stiffest competition, newly crowned U.S. champ, Max Aaron.
The eight year de facto U.S. gymnastics team captain, Alicia Sacramone, announced her retirement from the sport late last month, and so this post started as a tear-stained, high school diary entry.
One of the lasting images of the Vancouver Games happened February 14th, when Alexandre Bilodeau won the men’s moguls to become the first Canadian to earn gold home soil, ending a disappointing distinction from the 1976 Montreal and the 1988 Calgary Games.
Olympians Ryan Lochte, Allyson Felix, and Alex Morgan, as well as athletes from other sports, will all appear in an upcoming ESPN The Magazine issue recreating some of your favorite album covers.
After avoiding the Olympic discussion during the entire 113-day NHL lockout, and then putting it off again so the league could get itself situated for the start of an abbreviated season, it looks like we finally have some good news about NHL players heading to Sochi next February.
Olympics fans know all about Winter Games gold medalists Shaun White, Lindsey Vonn, and Evan Lysacek, but here are a few more athletes to watch leading up to the Sochi Olympics next February.
