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Caster Semenya blasts IOC, president over Olympic transgender ban
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (441+ words) Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya expressed her disappointment Sunday with the International Olympic Committee and called out IOC president Kirsty Coventry following the IOC's recent decision to ban transgender athletes from competing in the Games. The decision also restricts female…...
U.S. Olympic Skater Launches 'Woke *******' Taunt After Trump Criticism
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (205+ words) U.S. figure skater Amber Glenn is showing fire off the ice at the Winter Olympics. In a TikTok post on Tuesday, the team event gold medalist brandished her newly won hardware with teammate Alysa Liu and eviscerated her critics. Glenn has…...
New Nice mayor poses a 'real problem' for 2030 Winter Olympics
1+ week, 4+ day ago (716+ words) The 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps, already bedevilled by several senior executives quitting, faces another potential headache with the election of far-right politician Eric Ciotti as mayor of Nice. As with the recent Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics, the proposed venues…...
Olympic women’s hockey MVP Caroline Harvey wins 2026 Patty Kazmaier Award
1+ week, 6+ day ago (592+ words) UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. " Caroline Harvey already solidified herself as one of the very best women's hockey players in the world after turning heads and winning MVP at the Milan Olympics last month. Now, Harvey can officially call herself the top…...
USA Olympic hero Jack Hughes lost 'golden goal' puck. He wants it back.
2+ week, 3+ day ago (436+ words) The story of the U.S. men's hockey team winning the gold medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics features a twist. You know about Jack Hughes' teeth, two of them knocked out before he scored the winning goal in a 2-1 overtime victory over…...
What should future Winter Paralympics look like? Bigger, better and maybe earlier
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1345+ words) CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy " The question, "What should future Winter Paralympics look like?" is simple enough. The answers are multiple and complex. The 2026 Milan Cortina Games involved a record number of participating athletes and countries. It was the fourth straight Games…...
Why women’s sled hockey is not at 2026 Winter Paralympics
3+ week, 22+ hour ago (626+ words) MILAN " Team USA walked away gold-medal winners in both men's and women's hockey at the Winter Games this year, and the men's sled hockey team has claimed a spot in the March 15 Paralympic gold-medal match. If the U.S. wins, it will…...
Olympic comeback queen Brignone ends ski season
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (277+ words) Italian ski great Federica Brignone, who came back from injury to win two gold medals at last month's Winter Olympics, announced on Monday she had ended her campaign for this season. The 35-year-old won the overall World Cup title last…...
8 Olympic Athletes Who Were Stripped of Their Medals
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1276+ words) Mike Powell /Allsport; Mehmet Murat Onel/Anadolu via Getty; Branger/Roger Viollet via Getty Throughout the history of the Olympic Games, several athletes have had their medals stripped away Jim Thorpe and Jordan Chiles are among the American athletes who…...
Slovenian siblings Domen and Nika Prevc win Olympic gold in ski jumping team event
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (580+ words) Norway took silver with a foursome that included a jumper who was suspended last year in a jumpsuit-tampering scandal that caused an uproar in the sport and brought shame to the country that invented it. Japan captured its third bronze…...