Cullen Jones recently retired from Olympic-level swimming, but outside of competition, he is amplifying his life-saving mission.

A request by the organizers of next year’s skiing world championships in Italy to postpone the event by one year was rejected.

The program allowing Russian track athletes to compete internationally will be frozen because the country’s federation failed to pay a fine on time.

Whether there is competition next figure skating season or not, Jason Brown remains optimistic and focused on the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee reportedly set a goal to return to swimming competition in October from a February 2019 leukemia diagnosis.

Lara van Ruijven, a world champion short track speed skater from the Netherlands, is "fighting for her life" with an autoimmune disorder.

Bobsled's international federation is investigating triple Olympic medalist Elana Meyers Taylor's claims of racism in the sport.

Female skateboarders once organized to boycott the biggest competition in the sport. The next generation will now compete on the Olympic stage.

Figure skating Grand Prix fields are usually published in June. The timeline changes this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The World Rugby Sevens Series canceled this season's remaining stops in September and October due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The greatest male gymnast in history may be shut out of his home Olympics. Kohei Uchimura is making concessions, 13 months before the Opening Ceremony.

Michael Phelps and at least 10 more Olympians are featured in "The Weight of Gold," a film on Olympians and mental health.

John Carlos and U.S. Olympic athlete leaders want the IOC to abolish its rule on athlete protests and develop a new policy.

Races will be held in seven different countries, including a World Cup stop in Lake Placid, New York, on Jan. 23 and 24 hosted by USA Luge and the Olympic Regional Development Authority.

Angela Madesen was a three-time Paralympian and Marine Corps veteran who aimed to be the first paraplegic and oldest woman to row the Pacific Ocean.

Entrants for the 2020 race will be offered a full refund of their entry fee or a guaranteed entry to either the 2021, 2022 or 2023 marathon.

U.S. hopefuls for Tokyo had to find unique ways to train amid the coronavirus pandemic. A look at how athletes adapted in four different Paralympic sports.

The top-ranked Serb is the fourth player to test positive for the virus after first playing in Belgrade and then again last weekend in Zadar, Croatia

The annual Olympic Day, celebrating the rebirth of the Olympics dating to June 23, 1894, is now known in the U.S. as Olympic and Paralympic Day.

Alysa Liu, who became the youngest U.S. figure skating champion ever at age 13, is changing coaches less than two years before the Beijing Olympics.

Grigor Dimitrov tested positive for coronavirus, leading to the cancellation of an exhibition event where Novak Djokovic was due to play in the final.

“We won’t see what his neurological state is until he wakes up — if he wakes up," said the doctor who operated on Alex Zanardi after the auto racer turned Paralympic champion's crash.

As Chloé Dygert stood atop the podium, after the most dominant time trial in world road cycling championships history, she had to remind herself to smile.

Alex Zanardi was transported by helicopter to a hospital in Siena following a road accident.

Argentine swimmer Guillermo Bertola has been banned for four years in a doping case in which he said he received a transfusion of his mother’s blood.

Dathan Wickson received a courage award from Jordan Burroughs, his favorite wrestler, less than two years after brain surgery.

A total of 58 hours of Paralympic programming air on NBCSN and Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA over the next three weeks.

Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who raised black-gloved fists at the Olympics, discussed the potential for athlete demonstrations at the Tokyo Games next year.

Larisa Iordache, the closest rival to Simone Biles, hopes to join her at the Tokyo Olympics after not competing for the last three years.

Dustin Johnson will reconsider playing the Olympics in 2021, should the PGA Tour schedule be more favorable to flying to Tokyo between top-flight events.

The AVP Champions Cup Series will take place on successive weekends in July and August.

Serena Williams, eyeing a record-tying 24th Grand Slam singles title, plans to play the U.S. Open in two months without fans.

World 100m champion Christian Coleman was provisionally suspended for missing drug tests, a ban that puts his Olympic hopes in jeopardy.

Australia's top five Olympians come from swimming, track and field, field hockey and rowing.

For Rohan Dennis, the last year included the most difficult two months of his life, the best moment of his career and a move to the world's dominant team.

Christian Coleman, the world 100m champion, said he could be suspended after missing a drug test that he believes shouldn't be a strike on his record.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that the U.S. Open tennis tournament will held in late August as part of the state’s reopening from shutdowns caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Luce Douady, a youth world champion climber from France, died after a climbing accident at a cliff. She was 16.

The U.S. Tennis Association intends to hold the U.S. Open in New York starting in August without spectators.

Maddie Rooney, the star goalie of the U.S. Olympic women's hockey team, received a surprise phone call that led to an unusual gig for a hockey star.

Mark McGwire may be the most famous Olympic baseball player.

Sky Brown, the 11-year-old Olympic skateboarding hopeful who suffered skull fractures in a recent crash, chose to post video of the fall to send a message.

In 1987, Eric Barber, 16, wrote in to an NBC show called Sports Fantasy to pitch his dream: to play Michael Jordan one-on-one.

The Commonwealth Games, the biggest summer multi-sport event outside the Olympics, could allow athlete activism, such as taking a knee, at its next edition.

Hayato Sakamoto is in line to be one of the faces of the Tokyo Olympics across all sports. He has been labeled "the Derek Jeter of Japan."

A top U.S. Olympic boxing hopeful and an already named U.S. Olympic softball player were cleared of potential doping violations due to sexual transmission.

Karsten Warholm ran the fastest 300m hurdles in history in a solo race in a largely empty stadium, clocking 33.78 seconds at the Impossible Games in Oslo.

Karsten Warholm sets a new record in the 300m hurdles during the 2020 Impossible Games in Oslo.

Kate Courtney, a world champion mountain biker, leads 38 finalists for the U.S. Olympic cycling team across the road, track and mountain events.

Allyson Felix said it was "a powerful experience" recently participating in a Black Lives Matter protest.