Athletes talk social justice, locker room conversations about race and ways that sports can help combat inequality in a primetime special.

Shelby Houlihan chopped 10.52 seconds off her own American 5000m record.

Now that the NHL is close to returning to the Winter Games, the question: which 2014 Olympians will have a difficult time returning to rosters in 2022?

The NHL took a major step to returning to the Olympics in 2022 and 2026 after a one-Winter Games hiatus in 2018.

Lara van Ruijven, a world champion short track speed skater from the Netherlands, has died following complications from an autoimmune disorder

Usain Bolt isn't doing much running these days, but he would unretire if one man asked him to: longtime coach Glen Mills.

Becky and Ellie Downie spoke out about specific abuses they've experienced in the gymnastics, becoming the latest athletes to come forward this week.

Noah Lyles briefly appeared to break Usain Bolt's 200m world record at the Inspiration Games before an error was noticed.

Jeff Gadley and Willie Davenport became the first Black men to compete on a U.S. Winter Olympic team in 1980.

Chris Froome's contract with Team Ineos won't be renewed after this season, seven weeks before he goes for his fifth Tour de France title.

Finn Christian Jagge, the surprise 1992 Olympic slalom champion, has died at age 54, according to Norway’s Olympic a Committee.

Alex "Chumpy" Pullin, an Olympian and world champion snowboarder, drowned while spearfishing on Australia’s Gold Coast on Wednesday.

Shaunae Miller-Uibo said she likely will not defend her Olympic 400m title in Tokyo in favor of racing the 200m because the turnaround is too tight.

Copenhagen withdrew as host of the 2021 World Gymnastics Championships, citing financial strain as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

In Allyson Felix's 17 years on the senior international level, she has never experienced anything like what the Inspiration Games will bring.

Usain Bolt and Kasi Bennett shared the first public photos -- and the unique name -- of his daughter, Olympia Lightning Bolt.

When Tai Babilonia debuted at the Olympics in 1976, the fact that her presence in Innsbruck, Austria, was historic did not enter her 15-year-old mind.

Alex Zanardi, auto racer turned Paralympic champion, underwent a five-hour surgery to reconstruct his face following a crash on his handbike.

Shawn Johnson East detailed past struggles with body image and prescription drugs and reflected on her eating disorder as an elite athlete.

A world wrestling championships is planned for December in Belgrade, should health and safety measures be met considering the coronavirus pandemic.

Lin Dan, arguably the greatest badminton player in history, announced retirement Saturday, citing "pain and injuries" at age 36.

MyKayla Skinner remembers the moment she was told she didn't make the 2016 Olympic team. She's working so that history doesn't repeat in 2021.

Wilson Kipsang, a former marathon world-record holder, was banned four years over missed drug tests and giving a false statement.

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.