For those intently waiting for the IOC to reveal the Sochi Olympics medals - and yes, we’ve received emails - you only have to hold out a couple more weeks.
A day after four-time NCAA wrestling champ Kyle Dake beat Iran’s Hassan Tahmasebi at Wednesday’s “Rumble on the Rails” - the lone American win against the world’s top team - Dake woke to a much simpler task: taking down Dan Patrick radio show producer Paulie Pabst.
On top of all the incredible athletes wrestling at Wednesday’s “Rumble on the Rails,” many familiar faces showed up to the event in support of the Keep Olympic Wrestling movement, including champions like Dan Gable, Cael Sanderson, and Kurt Angle, NFL hall of famer Ronnie Lott, ESPN personality Mike Golic, and Hollywood point man Billy Baldwin, who showed me a few wrestling moves between matches.
Just ahead of Jordan Burroughs match against Russia’s Saba Khubetzhty, which Burroughs won to go 53-0 in his international career, the London Olympic 74kg champ chatted with NBC’s Jimmy Roberts about what events like “Rumble on the Rails” mean amid the effort to save Olympic wrestling.
IOC Vice President Ng Ser Miang of Singapore officially entered the race for IOC president on Thursday, announcing his candidacy at the Sorbonne in Paris where the Games were originally founded back in 1894.
Because “nobody remembers losers,” and because winning a gold on his home ice in Sochi next February is something that might help that problem, two-time NHL MVP Alex Ovechkin is going to join his national team in Finland and Sweden for the IIHF World Championships.
Despite spearheading Georgia’s recent unanimous decision to compete at the Sochi Olympics, newly elected Prime Minster Bidzina Ivanishvili said that received an invite to attend next February’s Winter Games just yet.
The U.S., Iranian, and Russian wrestling teams are set to square-off Wednesday at New York’s historic Grand Central Station for “The Rumble on the Rails,” in hopes that their competitive cooperation can save their beloved sport from being removed from the 2020 Olympic Games.
Following the lead of Oscars organizers, the Grammys have fled their normal spot on the second Sunday of February in order to avoid conflicting with next year’s Sochi Games.
London 100m hurdling champ Sally Pearson of Australia suffered another setback Sunday, injuring her already ailing hamstring during a rare 4x100m relay appearance in Sri Lanka.
London gold medalist and Fierce Fiver Jordyn Wieber will be on hand in Oklahoma this week when she’s awarded the first ever Nadia Comaneci Sportsmanship Award by the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
In the wake of last month’s bombings at the Boston Marathon, Brazilian authorities are promising a special effort to secure Rio for the upcoming World Cup in 2014 and for the Olympics in 2016.
Leave it to the Americans to show up Usain Bolt and the Jamaicans early in the season: After London fourth place finisher Tyson Gay sprinted to a world’s best 100m time of 9.86-seconds at the Kingston Invite last weekend, where he was a replacement for Bolt who pulled out of the race with a hamstring strain, Athens 100m champ Justin Gatlin ran 9.97-seconds to win the Diamond League meet in Doha despite suffering from an illness or two.
After claiming to be only at sixty percent for this weekend’s FINA USA Grand Prix in Florida - a tune-up for trials and (maybe) worlds later this year - London 10m platform champ David Boudia won silver at his first event since last summer to prove that when you’re good, you’re just that good.
David Rudisha was nearly three second slower than the 800m world record pace he set in London last summer, but that was still plenty fast to earn yet another victory and set a season best at the Diamond League meet in Doha Friday afternoon.
America’s Cup officials have promised a full investigation into the safety of their new sailing vessels after British Olympic gold medalist Andrew Simpson died Thursday amid an accident during team practice in San Francisco Bay.
After months of negotiations, it seems like talks between the NHL, NHLPA, IIHF, IOC, and the rest of the alphabet are finally coming to a close, with the likely conclusion that the pros will be welcome to play in the Olympics this February.
Decorated British sailor Andrew Simpson died Thursday when his 72-foot Swedish catamaran flipped in the in San Francisco Bay, trapping him beneath the boat for approximately ten minutes during an America’s Cup practice.
Instead of moving down to the 400m for a race against Usain Bolt, Kenya’s 800m gold medalist David Rudisha is adding a couple hundred meters for a race at the Ostrava Golden Spike in June.
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