We’re not yet sure where the Olympics will be held in 2020 (though we’re guessing Istanbul gets the nod), but it’s already time to start looking at which sports will make the cut when the Summer Games return, then leave, then return again eight years from now.
Rumors are already swirling about who will take Coack Mike Krzyzewski’s spot on the Team USA bench, with Celtics coach Doc Rivers all but running away from the gig this weekend.
There was no hat ceremony or photo op or parade or even a press conference when Missy Franklin named the school she’ll soon be decorating with medals and trophies; instead just a tweet.
We’re not sure what’s worse: that James Bond, a fictional character, was named the Most Influential Man of 2012 (in October, no less), or that he earned it over actual humans in an online popular vote.
Gold medal downhill skier Lindsey Vonn is still very much interested in going head-to-head with the boys at a World Cup race in Lake Louise next month, but now the four-time champ is turning up the dial.
For a nation that thinks highly of its thrones, and even more so of those granted the right to sit upon them, it should be no surprise that the seat one of Great Britain’s most decorated Olympians reclined in as he received his record breaking seventh career medal is fetching a pretty price at auction. “2012 has definitely been Bradley Wiggins’ year, not only triumphing at the Olympics, but also winning the Tour de France, just weeks before,” auctioneer Graham Budd said of the British pedaling hero.
The 2014 Sochi Olympics are still more than 15 months away, but apparently it’s never too early for details of the Opening Ceremony to start leaking out.
Check out this first look picture sent out by the official Olympics Twitter account -- presumably manned by IOC president Jacques Rogge himself -- of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Village.
Just like all references to Barry Bonds and his home run records were removed from AT&T Park in San Francisco after what seemed like only hours following his retirement, the memory of Lance Armstrong was scrubbed from the walls of the U.S. training Center in Colorado Wednesday.
This summer gymnast Gabby Douglas won two gold medals, appeared on the Wheaties Box and in a Nicki Minaj rap, was interviewed by Oprah, threw out first pitches in New York and L.A., and led the Pledge of Allegiance at the Democratic National Convention… all at only sixteen years old.
Incoming Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, who won his seat of power earlier this month, believes his country should compete in the 2014 Sochi Olympics in Russia, “and as a neighbor should do everything to ensure that Games are conducted peacefully and without any accidents,” he said Tuesday in news conference.
Men’s Health apparently named 18-time gold medal swimmer Michael Phelps the “Fittest Man of All-time” without even considering the shirtless men of OlympicTalk as an option.
We’ve heard rumors that Nairobi, Paris, Toronto, Doha, Dubai, and just about every relatively large American city including Tulsa and Milwaukee is considering tossing in their bids for some upcoming Olympic Games.
With ski and snowboard slopestyle and ski halfpipe debuting at the 2014 Sochi Games, it’s getting difficult to tell where the X-Games end and the Olympics begin.
The first American to qualify for BMX Cycling as an Olympic event, Kyle Bennett, 33, died in a single-vehicle car crash early Sunday morning in his hometown of Conroe, Texas.
Abby Wambach has won two gold medals, a World Cup, three collegiate titles, five American player of the year trophies, and, maybe most importantly, my heart.
On a list of people doing dumb things simply to prove they can, we submit Keith Levasseur, who this weekend broke the Guinness world record for fastest marathon run in flip-flops when he finished Saturday’s Baltimore race in an impressive-in-normal-shoes time of 2 hours, 46 minutes.
The universe’s greatest athlete, gold medal American decathlete Ashton Eaton, humbled himself this weekend and gave some normal humans a look at his training regiment at a gym in Falls Church, Va.
