LeBron James’s favorite Olympian, LeBron James, will be honored by the Miami Heat Saturday night when his gold medal banner is raised to the rafters of AmericanAirlines Arena during the pregame of a matchup against the Denver Nuggets.
In response to the backlash against cyclist Lance Armstrong and the UCI, the Australian Olympic Committee is proposing unprecedented measures to ensure its athletes will never consider doping.
If we can all agree that women ruled the London Olympics – and statistics, as well as plain observation says they did – then it makes sense to see five proud American athletes land on Glamour’s list of 2012’s “Women of the Year.”
We can’t imagine the NFL placing a permanent resident in London anytime soon - although excommunicating Jacksonville to the other side of the Atlantic seems practical, if not appealing - but after another successful NFL showcase in London, the city’s mayor is looking to lock some American football games into Olympic Stadium.
Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after a USADA investigation revealed he was part of the “most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen,” but it was believed Armstrong would keep his Sydney Olympic medal, if only on the technicality of an expired eight-year statute of limitations.
If you’re still scrounging for a last minute costume before going out to celebrate Halloween Wednesday night, here are a few easy ways to dress like an Olympian and be the envy of all trick or treaters.
So far we’ve learned two things from London 2012 chairman and two-time 1500m gold medalist Sebastian Coe’s autobiography: the queen is excellent at keeping secrets and no one in the royal family is reading OlympicTalk... like at all.
South Korean midfielder Park Jong-woo, who was denied his Olympic medal and banned from the podium after celebrating his team’s bronze medal game victory over Japan with a sign of protest, will finally receive his prize after the IOC signed off on the paperwork Wednesday.
Swimming legend Michael Phelps was down at a training center in Rio this week to teach some kids how to swim (adorable), so questions about whether he would be back in four years for the Olympics were bound to follow.
Parts of Manhattan are under water, power is out, debris and downed trees cover the streets, and most of the bridges and tunnels remain closed Tuesday morning, but by all accounts the New York City Marathon, which weaves through all five boroughs, will go off with very few hitches this Sunday.
Due to Spain’s financial situation, a lot of people assume Madrid has little to no shot of hosting the 2020 Olympics when it goes against Tokyo and Istanbul in an IOC committee vote next September.
We’re sure a lot of people were dressing up as Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan for Halloween parties over the weekend, but she and U.S. women’s soccer teammate Sydney Leroux went as a different dynamic duo for their night on the town.
The snow is on the ground, the winter sports world cup season is off and running, and the Americans are already making impressive steps toward the top of the Sochi podium.
Hours before Team GB’s world was torn asunder Tuesday night by the theft of two Olympic medals while the athletes were partying at a London night club, the classy part of the evening took place at Buckingham Palace with a reception honoring the U.K.’
We’re still 1,380 days out from the Rio Games, so while we won’t be learning the official motto or meeting the official mascots for some time, we at OlympicTalk are proud to unveil the official Rio 2016 Olympics font.
After more than a year away from the ice, Vancouver women’s figure skating champ Kim Yu-na is putting the ol’ team back together in hopes of defending her Olympic title at the 2014 Sochi Games.
We’ve seen everyone from the Fierce Five, to Mo Farah, Prince Henry, and various British commoners this summer try to perform Usain Bolt’s famous “to di world” lighting pose, but no one does it quite like the world record sprinter.
Lance Armstrong’s seven Tour de France titles are gone, his Olympic medal is in jeopardy, and his reputation is destroyed now that he’s been banned from the sport for life.
Beijing organizers essentially shouted Chinese culture at their worldwide audience in 2008, spending $67 billion on the Olympics while presumably using “we’re gonna need a bigger boat” as the punch line of every meeting they held leading up to the Games.
The Kelloggs Tour of Gymnastics Champions claimed another victim this week when 2012 national champ John Orozco felt a pop as he landed a dismount from the parallel bars in St.
