Karch Kiraly, one of the most decorated volleyball players in history - both indoor and beach - has been chosen to take over the U.S. women’s team and will spend the next four years preparing to avenge back-to-back gold medal game losses to Brazil, which will have home court in 2016.
In an attempt to continue not running really, really fast in a straight line, since London Usain Bolt has flirted with the idea of playing soccer for Manchester United, trying the long jump in 2016, and now, apparently, playing professional cricket.
As London continues its claim as “the greatest Olympics ever,” they added some pretty solid evidence Tuesday when Bernard Hogan-Howe, head of the Met Police, announced that crime was down roughly six percent in London during the seven weeks of the Olympics and Paralympics.
As rumors persist that FIBA will push for 3-on-3 basketball as soon as 2016 it’s probably time to completely overhype this event before having our hopes and dreams dashed as we return to the boredom that is Team USA sleepwalking to gold nearly every four years.
Belarus shot putter Nadzeya Ostapchuk, who was stripped of her London gold medal after she tested positive for anabolic steroids, received a reduced one-year sentence (instead of the standard two-year ban) from the NADA after her coach, Alexander Yefimov, fessed up to spiking her food with metenolone before the Games.
Fierce Fiver McKayla Maroney, most famous for the twisted face she wore on the podium in London after she won silver on the vault, injured her left knee Sunday after falling off the uneven bars at an exhibition in Ontario, Calif.
Rory McIlroy is the world’s No. 1 golfer, he won his second career major in August, and he’s strolled to victory at three of the last four tournaments; so sure, why not try to ruin it all by asking a controversial question?
Whether it’s coming up the ranks at the same time as Michael Phelps or peaking at the 2011 world championships instead of in London, it seems like Ryan Lochte’s timing has always been a little off.
Apparently the £3.3 billion spent on London’s Olympic Park in Stratford was only to get the city through the month-and-a half of Olympics and Paralympics activity that wrapped up with the latter holding its Closing Ceremony Sunday night.
Lest you thought the London Games was your final shot to catch gymnastics until 2016, fear not: the U.S. athletes will kick off on the three-month, 40-city “Kellogg’s Tour of Gymnastics Champions.”
We first saw Michael Phelps as a 15-year-old swimming the 200m butterfly to a fifth place finish in Sydney, and even if we knew he was special then, we’re not sure anyone could have predicted what we’ve seen the last twelve years.
Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight, and Carmelita Jeter of the U.S combined to run the fastest 4x100m relay time in history in London, finishing in 40.82 seconds and finally breaking a 27-year-old record owned by an East German squad from 1985.
