Lindsey Vonn is on break and Tina Maze is on fire, but on Wednesday a different familiar face was on top of the giant slalom podium: Viktoria Rebensburg.
Four-time gold medal cyclist Bradley Wiggins, 32, isn’t sure if he’ll stick around for Rio after becoming the first man to win the Tour de France and Olympic gold in the same summer.
After an uncharacteristic fall on the downhill course in Switzerland this weekend, gold medalist Lindsey Vonn admitted that she’s struggling to regain her energy following intestinal illness earlier this season.
Pope Benedict XVI invited Italy’s Olympians to the Vatican Monday to congratulate the team on its 28 medals and remind them (and everyone else) that drugs are the wrong road to the top of the podium.
The hallowed grounds of Wimbledon gave tennis its most memorable stage at the Olympics this past year, and home-grown gold medalist Andy Murray adding to the British fervor.
Rugby may not be one of the Big Four American sports (or ten, fifteen, what-have-you), but sprinter turned rugby star Carlin Isles is hoping to change that perception and make the U.S. a feared opponent when the sport debuts in Rio in 2016.
Vancouver gold medal skier Lindsey Vonn has had a rough 2012-13 World Cup season, facing an illness that is still dragging her down despite sweeping all three races in Lake Louise Thanksgiving weekend.
With the Sochi Games a mere 14 months away, some of the top Olympics snow sports athletes are in Breckenridge, Colo. for the Dew Tour this week to start preparing their runs for the world’s biggest stage.
Via unanimous, albeit mail-in, vote, the International Baseball Federation officially approved a merger with softball’s governing body Thursday so the two could join forces in a joint bid that will aim at getting the sports back in the Olympics by the 2020 Games.
While London gold medalist Mo Farah is set to attempt the 10000m/marathon double in Rio, his friend and training partner Galen Rupp won’t join him on the road until after the Olympics.
With the Sochi Games a mere 14 months away, some of the top Olympics snow sports athletes are in Breckenridge, Colo. for the Dew Tour this week to start preparing their runs for the world’s biggest stage.
While we’re edging closer to a deal that would end the NHL lockout, Commissioner Gary Bettman and the owners have yet to address whether the pros will be allowed to compete in the Olympics.
We’re 14 months and counting from the opening of the Sochi Games, and the city is nearing the end of a six-year construction effort that started as soon as Russia won the right to host the Olympics.
Now that the Olympics will be adding South America to its list of hosts when it lands in Rio four years from now, London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe says there’s one last frontier for the Olympics to cross.
