Nineteen-year-old phenom Athing Mu captured 800m gold Tuesday night in Tokyo, breaking the U.S. record and triumphantly expiring what had been the longest active American title drought in Olympic ...

With her final swim of the 2024 Paris Olympics, Katie Ledecky draped herself in one of the most significant gold medals in the history of the Olympics. Ledecky won the women’s 800m freestyle, ...

TOKYO — When last seen, at the U.S. track and field Trials in Eugene in June, and this was at the Best Western just a couple blocks from the new Hayward Field, and can we be honest, they’ve cut back ...

Modern pentathlon tests athletes across five separate disciplines. Athletes must swim, fence, ride an unfamiliar horse through a show jumping course — they get just 20 minutes to get acquainted — and ...

Regardless of the outcome of the floor exercise final on Aug. 5, Jordan Chiles will leave Paris with immense pride — and an Olympic gold medal. Chiles, along with her gold-medal-winning teammates — ...

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, ...

The U.S. is once again entering the tournament as a medal contender, and the nation's history backs that up. The U.S. has almost twice as many shooting medals at the Olympics as any other nation.

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” ...

Murphy claimed bronze just behind a pair of athletes from the Russian Olympic Committee amongst a deep field of contenders, finishing in 52.19. Evgeniy Rylov took gold in 51.98 while Kliment ...

Games are won by the first player/team to score 11 points while winning by two. Singles matches are won by the player who wins the best of seven games. Team matches consist of four singles matches and ...

Brisbane, where a crowd had gathered to watch the announcement on big screens, becomes the third Australian city to get the Games after Melbourne in 1956 and Sydney in 2000. Its selection means ...

15-year-old Valieva trains at the same rink as teammates Aleksandra Trusova, 17, and reigning world champion Anna Shcherbakova, also 17. The Moscow rink was also home to Zagitova and Medvedeva. What ...