German 1976 Olympic fencing gold medalist, and, maybe more importantly, IOC vice president Thomas Bach announced Thursday that he’ll run for the organizations’s presidency when Jacques Rogge’s term ends in September.
As part of wrestling’s aim to retain its spot in the Olympics, the sport’s world governing body, FILA, is planning to add two weight classes for women into Olympics competition, according to the AP.
Anyone expecting to be dazzled by Usain Bolt this early in the season was probably asking too much, especially after he pulled out of last week’s Kingston Invitational with a hamstring strain.
Even though Mitt Romney doesn’t intend to take a “management position” in San Diego’s and Tijuana’s bi-national bid for the 2024 Olympics, the former Republican Presidential Nominee sat down with San Diego Mayor Bob Filner earlier this week to lend his consulting talents to the effort.
Boston’s Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts, and Cultural Development heard testimony Tuesday from citizens and officials advocating for New England to throw its proverbial hat in the ring as they consider hosting the Games in 2024.
Keeping with tradition, children from the farthest reaches of Siberia will have the pleasure of starting off this year’s Torch Relay once the Flame is lit in Greece and makes its journey to Moscow.
After a solid forth place showing at the Drake relays last month, 100m hurdler (and occasional bobsledder) Lolo Jones earned her first win of the season at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo after taking advantage of a misstep by London bronze medalist Kellie Wells.
Tiger may have missed his chance to walk the red carpet with girlfriend Lindsey Vonn at last week’s Delete Blood Cancer gala because he was practicing, but he made sure to be on her arm at the famous Met Gala in New York Monday night for the couple’s first public appearance together.
It’s been almost a year since David Boudia won his somewhat surprising 10m platform gold in London, but the two-time Olympic medalist said he’s ready to get back in the water at the AT&T USA Diving Grand Prix this weekend.
As we continue to turn back the clock for no apparent reason on a gorgeous Monday, enjoy this 20-part video series (we would have made it 22) on Michael Phelps and the training techniques Bob Bowman used to turn him from a precocious 15-year-old swimmer to history’s greatest Olympic champion.
After finishing out of the medals in London, turning 30, dealing with injuries, and only being added to the Jamaican Invitational after Usain Bolt pulled out with a hamstring strain, it’s safe to say Tyson Gay was an afterthought at the premiere track event in Kingston over the weekend.
Vancouver downhill gold medalist Lindsey Vonn has apparently “dumped” her knee brace and said Thursday that she’ll be back on the slopes in by late summer, giving her plenty of time to train for the Alpine season and Sochi in February.
World record 800m runner David Rudisha said he’s considering taking part in the 4x400m relay at the World Athletic Championships in Moscow this summer, and is daring Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt line up against him on the track.
Despite the fact that R&A chief executive Peter Dawson assumed last week that Rory McIlroy will be forced to play for Ireland at the Rio Games, the world No. 2 golfer understands he still has a choice regarding which team he competes for, according to Paragraph 2 of IOC Rule 41.
In what’s already being called one of the most important meetings in the history of the sport, the federation for international wrestling will hold an “extraordinary” congress in Moscow later this month to figure out how they can retain their spot on the Olympic schedule in 2020.
Following the lead of Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, the country’s Olympic Committee decided in a unanimous vote Thursday that its athletes would be allowed to compete in the 2014 Sochi Games next February.
He may have never played a down of American football - ever - but British discus champ Lawrence Okoye, who San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh has called an “adonis” and a “beautiful man,” has the work ethic to make a difference now that he’s signed a deal with the 49ers.
London silver medal discus thrower Darya Pishchalnikova has been banned for ten years and stripped of her medal by the Russian Track and Field Association after she was caught doping.
Amid the announcement that San Diego and Tijuana were considering a bi-national bid for the 2024 Olympics was the idea that, despite the obvious challenges with the proposal, 2012 republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is the man that could make it happen.
World record sprinter Usain Bolt has pulled out of this weekend’s Jamaica International Invitational, citing a hamstring strain that happened during training; an injury his coach Glen Mills doesn’t want to aggravate this early in the season.
