American soccer stars Abby Wambach and Alex Morgan have both been nominated for the FIFA player of the year after dominating performances that led to America’s third straight Olympic gold medal.
Lance Armstrong has already lost his seven Tour de France titles, been fired by everyone from Nike to his own cancer charity, and been systematically deleted from the hearts and minds of his fans.
The Badminton World Federation announced rule changes to the Olympic doubles format Friday in Bangkok after eight players were expelled from the Olympics for giving less than a valiant effort to win matches during London’s round robin stage.
London all-around champ Gabby Douglas’s autobiography Grace, Gold & Glory is set to be released Tuesday, which leads to the obvious question of “how did Gabby Douglas write an autobiography when she hasn’t been off camera for 45 consecutive minutes since winning in London?”
Four-time London gold medal swimmer Missy Franklin has decided to swim her senior season at Regis Jesuit in Aurora, Colo. rather than sit out to be “fair” to her fellow high school competitors.
South Korean figure skater Yuna Kim probably has a lot of famous fans after taking home Olympic gold from Vancouver two years ago, but now she can add movie star Hugh Jackman to that list.
The fact that gold medal alpine skier Lindsey Vonn finished 21st in Aspen this weekend was already impressive after she spent two nights in a Colorado hospital with severe intestinal pain last week.
“Dancing with the Stars” has long been a haven for Olympic gold medalists like Kristi Yamaguchi, Shawn Johnson, and Apolo Anton Ohno, who have all won the Mirror Ball trophy during the show’s run.
IOC officials are at the Hong Kong Open this week to determine whether or not squash is worthy of the one available spot open on the Olympics competition schedule in 2020.
Olympic officials will discuss samples from a number of unnamed athletes who tested positive for doping during the Games when the IOC Executive Board gathers for a meeting in Switzerland next week.
World record sprinter Usain Bolt seemed concerned about his age – all of 26 – this weekend in Barcelona when he picked up his award for IAAF world athlete of the year, so he says he’ll run as fast and as smooth as he can now, instead of waiting to break the world record on the Olympics stage in Rio.
Now IOC President Jacques Rogge is apparently in favor of doubling the doping ban on Olympic athletes caught using performance-enhancing drugs from two years to four years, and said at a conference in Amsterdam Monday that the measure “satisfies” the IOC’s desire to increase sanctioning on doping.
Olympic gold medal alpine skier Aksel Lund Svindal became the first man to sweep both world cup races at the Lake Louise course in Alberta Sunday since Bode Miller pulled off the same feat back in 2004.
Vancouver downhill gold medalist Lindsey Vonn was sitting tenth in Aspen after her first giant slalom run of the world cup season, but didn’t have anything left in the tank for her second trip down the mountain after spending two nights in a Vail, Colo. hospital with “severe intestinal pain” earlier this week.
World record sprinter Usain Bolt was named the IAAF world athlete of the year Saturday in Barcelona, beating out American hurdler Aries Merritt and Kenyan distance runner David Rudisha, who both won gold in London.
China’s Sun Yang destroyed the field (and the world record) in London’s 1500m freestyle swim, and then threw in another gold in the 400m free, and a silver and bronze to wrap up a nice little Olympics.
One would hope that we as a general population have been convinced to stop doing stupid things at sporting events, but Ashley Gill-Webb allegedly threw a plastic beer bottle on the Olympic track in London mere seconds before the men’s 100m final back in August, and now we have to start over.
British cyclist Sir Chris Hoy just won two gold medals in London to become the most decorated Olympian in the nation’s history, along with Bradley Wiggins.
Shamed Chinese badminton star Yu Yang, who was thought to have retired after she was kick out of the London Games for giving less than her best effort to win, is now apparently back.
Olympic BMX cyclist Kyle Bennett had a blood alcohol level of nearly twice the legal limit when he died in a car crash outside his home in Conroe, Texas on the morning of Oct. 14.
