Two-time defending Olympic halfpipe gold medalist David Wise – the only men's freeskier to ever hold that title – returns as the experienced veteran looking to record a historic three-peat, while Alex ...

There's a new champion: Alaska's 17-year-old Lydia Jacoby. The American shocked the field by winning in 1:04.95. She and teammate Lilly King sandwiched South Africa's Tatjana Schoenmaker for medals, ...

Each game and period in Olympic water polo starts with a swim-off, which is a race for the ball in the center of the pool. Players from each team are lined up along their own goal lines and the first ...

The women’s Alpine skiing program at the 2022 Winter Olympics shifts into top gear Monday night with the downhill, and Mikaela Shiffrin is entered to compete for the first time in her Olympic career.

The advent of table tennis supposedly dates back to the late 1800s, when the wealthy Victorians in England created an indoor version of lawn tennis using items laying around the house to assemble a ...

BEIJING — Kristen Santos was in medal position, poised to wipe out the frustration that has haunted American women in Olympic short track speed skating for 12 years. Instead, Santos wiped out. Or ...

At 35, she won the 1500m at the 2022 Winter Games in Olympic record time on Monday, defending her title. Wuest, the most successful Dutch speed skater in history, hadn’t quite wrapped her head around ...

The game of tennis traces its roots back to medieval France, and although history cannot exactly pinpoint the origin of tennis' scoring system, the modern version of tennis scoring was finalized in ...

Simone Biles is not the first athlete to acknowledge how mounting pressure to perform and achieve has affected her mental health. But by stepping away from her events on the world’s biggest stage, ...

From Chase Kalisz's dream-realizing 400m IM victory to Caeleb Dressel's history-making fifth gold medal in the men's 4x100m medley relay, the Tokyo Olympic swimming competition delivered from start to ...

If there’s one thing the world’s top breakers agree on, it might be this: The newest sport at the Olympics is much more than just a sport. Breaking is a culture. Let Jeffrey Louis (aka “B-Boy Jeffro” ...

With the 2024 Paris Games approaching, Olympic qualifying is now complete and nearly 600 athletes have earned their spots on the U.S. Olympic team. Below is a list of athletes that have qualified to ...