World No. 1 golfer Rory McIlroy is still debating whether to play for the British or Irish national team when his sport is resurrected at the Rio Games in 2016, but might just opt out of the Olympics entirely, so as not to offend his fans in either country.
Ashley Gill-Webb, semi-infamous for tossing a bottle onto the London Olympic track mere seconds before the men’s 100m final, argued Thursday in court that he did not intend to disrupt the race.
The Williams sisters - Venus and Serena - have each won singles Olympic gold, have combined for three more pieces of Olympic hardware in doubles, and are apparently prepping for another run in Rio four years from now.
Before London, I would have scoffed at the idea of darts as an Olympic sport, but after spending each morning waking, ironing, and dressing to the popular world sport on the BBC, I’m now all for it.
If you have fifteen minutes to learn everything you would ever want to know (*but were afraid to ask) about the 2014 Olympics venues in Sochi, check out the very detailed CG video below.
While Lindsey Vonn is taking a break from the World Cup circuit to fully recover from a November intestinal illness, the women were back on the slopes Friday for a giant slalom event in Austria.
SI’s writers may have picked LeBron for Sportsman of the Year, but now the fans have spoken, and swimmer Michael Phelps will grace the final cover of 2012 after winning Sports Moment of the Year.
Despite no damage being reported after a mild earthquake hit Sochi off the coast Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin has ordered local authorities to double-check all the Olympic sites.
U.S. short track coach Guy Thibault has been tasked with piecing back together a fractured national team after its members have scattered throughout three competing programs.
The Russian parliament’s upper house passed a bill Wednesday calling for upwards of $30,000 fines for anyone caught scalping tickets to the Sochi Games.
While the former Georgian Prime Minister was considering a boycott of the Sochi Games in neighboring Russia, the new Prime Minister, Bidzina Ivanishvili, assured his country and his athletes Monday that they plan to compete.
Two-time gold medalist Gabby Douglas capped-off a significant year in women’s sports by earning the AP’s Top Female Athlete of the Year award Friday, marking the fifth straight year that a female Olympic gold medalist has taken it home.
Three-time Olympic runner Suzy Favor Hamilton admitted Thursday that problems with her marriage and bouts with depression led her to start working as an $600/hr escort during the last twelve months.
