Canadian women’s soccer captain Christine Sinclair has been suspended four games and fined $3,500 by FIFA for showing “unsporting behavior towards match officials” following an exciting 4-3 extra-time loss to Team USA in the Olympics semifinals.
World Cup ski champ Lindsey Vonn has yet to submit paperwork with the International Ski Federation (FIS) to compete at a men’s event in Alberta next month, but a few possible competitors are already chiming in how they think she’ll do.
On Saturday, 84 professional athletes and a couple thousand age groupers will push their bodies to the limit at the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii.
Construction of the Rio Olympic golf course has been blocked due to a legal dispute regarding ownership of the site’s land, but Rio organizers said in a statement Thursday that they are confident “all deadlines for the golf course construction will be met” and that the delay won’t affect scheduled test events.
U.S. short track coach Jae Su Chun and lead assistant Jun Hyung Yeo resigned Thursday amid allegations of physical and verbal abuse, and an admission from Vancouver bronze medalist Simon Cho who said he tampered with a Canadian rival’s skates at Chun’s request during a meet last year.
The Spanish basketball team was so upset after a second straight gold medal game loss to Team USA this summer that the silver medalists apparently performed $14,400 worth of destruction to their two apartments following the game.
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Shaun White was supposed to have his day in court Wednesday for charges of public intoxication and vandalism during an incident at a Nashville hotel last month, but the case has been delayed by a judge until Nov. 20.
After England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland fielded a unified British men’s team for the first time since the 1960 Olympics, it sounds like the four countries will once again part ways and field independent squads for the 2016 Olympics.
After witnessing Usain Bolt run 9.58, 9.63, and 9.69 in the 100m, and seeing six other men dip below the 9.80 mark since Beijing four years ago, it’s becoming more and more difficult to remember a time when just breaking 10 seconds was an incredible feat.
When we first heard that world No. 1 taekwondo fighter Aaron Cook was disgruntled after being left off Team GB’s London squad, allegedly out of spite, we wrote him an open letter inviting him to come compete for USA’s red, white, and blue.
We’re still about four years out from the Rio Games, but Irish Olympic committee chair Pat Hickey is already making pleas and concessions in hopes world No. 1 golfer Rory McIlroy will represent Ireland when his sport returns to the Olympics in 2016.
James Bond is celebrating his 50th year in theatres by saving the world (again) and bedding a bevy of women (again) next month in “Skyfall,” but old school Bond Sir Roger Moore is still raving about the queen’s performance at the Olympic Opening Ceremony back in July.
We’ve seen Olympic Flames cross continents by land, sea, and air, get shot by bow and arrow, and even get sent via laser beam from space (thanks, Canada).
Vancouver downhill gold medalist Lindsey Vonn has asked the International Ski Federation (FIS) for the opportunity to compete against the men at a race in Alberta, Canada next month.
