Gold medalists Missy Franklin and Ryan Lochte had presumably spent more time shooting scenes for TV teen dramas than actually swimming since the London Games, but neither seemed too affected by the time off at this weekend’s Minnesota Grand Prix.
After losing to South Korea, 5-4, in a shootout Friday, the British ice hockey team rallied with wins against Romania (3-0) on Saturday and Japan (2-1) on Sunday to earn a spot in February’s Olympic qualification tournament in Germany.
The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) reinstated windsurfing into the Olympics program Saturday, overturning a vote from earlier this year that kicked the sailing discipline out of the Games in exchange for increasingly popular sport of kite boarding.
After the initial ruling by the FIS that “one gender is not entitled to participate in races of the other and exceptions will not be made,” it appeared gold medal downhill skier Lindsey Vonn had backed off her pursuit of facing off against the men to instead focus on the new women’s world cup season.
American track star turned bobsledder Lolo Jones kicked off her new career nicely on Friday, finishing second at her winter sports debut during an event in Lake Placid, N.Y.
Seven-time Olympic cycling medalist Bradley Wiggins was released from the hospital Friday after spending two nights in observation following a collision with a van near his home in Lancashire.
While we wait for the NHL pros to end their differences with management and lace up their skates on American soil once again, hockey fans everywhere will be glad to know that Olympic qualification kicked off in Japan Friday.
The Greek Olympic Committee (HOC) said Thursday that budget cuts to the program could lead to the “disintegration of Greek sport” as soon as the new year after an 80 percent cut is put into effect in 2013.
It was just his first Olympics as head coach, but after leading the U.S. women’s basketball team to their fifth straight gold medal, Geno Auriemma is taking his ball and going home.
It’s been nearly three months since the London Games, but David Rudisha’s incredible 800m run and Jamaica’s mad 4x100m dash were officially etched into the record books Wednesday after the results were ratified by the IAAF.
Yet another Olympic athlete could see her medal stripped after she was caught doping, but Russia’s Darya Pishchalnikova is facing a much more severe penalty for this, her second offense: a lifetime ban.
Famed British cyclist Bradley Wiggins spent Wednesday night in the hospital with a busted hand and broken ribs after being hit by a vehicle while riding his bike near his home in northern England.
Gold medal snowboarder Shaun White has agreed to seek alcohol treatment in order to settle public intoxication and vandalism charges stemming from an incident at a Nashville hotel in September.
Now that gold medal skier Lindsey Vonn has lost her battle to race her male counterparts in Canada later this month she’s decided to skip the slalom opener in Finland to prep for races in Colorado.
Uzbekistani 74kg freestyle wrestler Soslan Tigiev is set to become the second athlete to be stripped of their 2012 Olympic medal after he tested positive for a banned substance following his bronze medal performance in London.
The U.S. women’s gymnastics team won three golds, a silver, and a bronze In London this summer to bring the team total to 64 international medals since Martha Karolyi took over back in 2001.
World record track stars Usain Bolt, David Rudisha, and Aries Merritt were named finalists for the men’s World Athlete of the Year award in Monaco Monday after receiving the most votes in a three-week poll.
American speedskater Heather Richardson started the season pretty strong by shattering two track records and sweeping all five women’s race at the U.S.
American hurdler Lolo Jones may have become a bobsledder last month when she was one of six push athletes chosen by U.S. coach Todd Hayes for the national team, but that didn’t guarantee her anything but a news cycle and a pat on the back.
Vancouver downhill gold medalist Lindsey Vonn’s formal request to face-off against the men at a World Cup race in Lake Louise, Alberta later this month has been rejected by the International Ski Federation over the weekend, seemingly on the grounds that they just don’t like the idea very much.
Pia Sundhage’s Sept. 1 announcement that she was stepping down from her post as the U.S. women’s soccer head coach to take over in Sweden was a blow to the world’s No. 1 team.
