Pat McQuaid, President of the International Cycling Union, has been replaced on an the IOC panel that will decide the host city for the 2020 Games, apparently because he’s too busy for the task.
Joining Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer and the Williams sisters and maybe all of tennis, American gold medalists and 12 time doubles Grand Slam twins Mike and Bob Bryan added their names to the list of stars who will likely end their careers in Rio.
Mustachioed Baltimore swim legend Michael Phelps was excited to see the Ravens heading back to the Super Bowl after avenging last year’s AFC Championship loss to the Patriots, and told Yahoo!
Seven of Turkey’s largest companies are offering to sponsor the country in its bid to host the 2020 Summer Games in Istanbul with upwards of $20 million in funding, the largest private backing of a sporting event in the country’s history.
American teen Arielle Gold lived up to her name at the snowboarding worlds in Stoneham, Quebec over the weekend, taking home first place in the halfpipe in her first year on the senior circuit.
Lindsey Vonn won her first downhill race of the new year in Italy Saturday, and her first race of any kind in more than five weeks, beating World Cup points leader Tina Maze by roughly a half-second.
In sport dominated by tiny, if not fierce, teenagers, British gymnast Lisa Mason is aiming to make a comeback at 31 after twelve years away from the sport.
Regardless of what NHL commish Gary Bettman and everyone else agrees on, Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis said he’ll definitely let his Russian star, Alex Ovechkin, compete in Sochi next year.
After being sidelined for more than seven months with a busted eye socket, broken nose, and serious concussion from an accident during training, Olympic silver medal snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler is back, and prepping for her hometown X-Games.
No one’s sure if gold medalist Apolo Anton Ohno is prepping for a run at Sochi, including the short track skater himself, but the clock is ticking and everyone on the team is waiting to hear an answer from America’s most decorated winter Olympian.
There’s already concern that cycling might be ousted from the Olympics after Lance Armstrong’s doping admission airs on Oprah Thursday, but one badminton champ says his sport might also be facing expulsion after the London scandal and recent mid-match retirements have put them under the microscope.
Olympic gold medal snowboarder Shaun White typically spends his summers catching air on the vert ramp, but the extreme sports star says he’ll be hanging up his skateboard in 2013 to focus on Sochi.
The IOC is tossing a lifeline to the suspended Indian Olympic Association, and sent a letter stating it’s willing to meet with Indian officials in Lausanne to discuss terms of possible reinstatement.
American gold medalist Lindsey Vonn is still struggling in her return to the slopes and will skip the slalom race in Flachau, Austria on Tuesday to focus on her recovery, and on races in Italy this weekend.
