Belgian biathlete Maya Cloetens is concerned about the future of winter sports in a warming world.
Organizers in Ancient Olympia conducted an emergency lighting of the Olympic flame for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games, taking advantage of a brief spell of sunshine amid Greece’s stormy weather.
As part of a seismic schedule change for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, track and field, and not swimming, will lead off the Olympics.
Two 15-year-olds have been arrested in Washington for an attempted carjacking and beating of Edward Coristine, a prominent member of the Department of Government Efficiency.
The world Kirsty Coventry walks into Monday as the International Olympic Committee’s first female and first African president is already very different to the one she was elected in three months ago.
The iconic helium-powered balloon that attracted myriads of tourists during the Paris Olympic Games came back to light up the French capital’s skyline.
Veteran rock star Bruce Springsteen, a high-profile celebrity critic of President Donald Trump, slammed the U.S. administration as “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” during a concert Wednesday in Berlin.
The IOC has signed a $3 billion deal with its long-time United States broadcast partner NBC for the 2034 Salt Lake City Olympics and the 2036 Summer Games.
Nearly all of the new film “September 5” takes place in the darkened, smokey control room from which ABC Sports broadcast the hostage crisis of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
Seven International Olympic Committee members are running as candidates to be the next president in its first election since 2013.
Declaring the U.S. the “greatest sports nation in the history of the world,” President Joe Biden welcomed U.S. Olympians and Paralympians at the White House on Monday to recognize their achievement in this summer’s games in Paris.
Australian breaker Rachael Gunn says the backlash to her much-ridiculed Olympic performance has been “devastating,” adding that she took the competition seriously and gave her best effort.
Paris has closed out two and a half extraordinary weeks of Olympic sports and emotion with a star-studded show in France’s national stadium.
As Paris shines under the global spotlight of the Olympic Games, technological innovations are enabling people with visual impairments to take it in.
Canada has lost its appeal against the deduction of six competition points following a drone-spying scandal in the Olympic women’s soccer tournament.
The head of Ukraine’s Olympic delegation touted the limited numbers of Russian athletes at the Paris Olympics — who must compete as neutrals — as war between the two countries grinds on for a third year.
Workers have gone on strike at the five-star hotel in Paris where members of the International Olympic Committee are staying.
French authorities say a French alleged neo-Nazi sympathizer was sentenced to two years in prison after making threats online and was suspected of wanting to target the Olympic torch relay.
In a powerful tribute to the hundreds of Ukrainian athletes who have perished since the Russian invasion of their homeland, the Union of Ukrainians of France led a peaceful march of several hundred people in Paris on Saturday.
Spain and England will play the European Championship final on Sunday in an imposing stadium with a dark history.
France’s fiercely anti-immigration National Rally and opponents of the far-right party are scrambling to capitalize on a first round of voting in high-stakes surprise legislative elections.
More than 120 faith leaders are preparing for an Olympic challenge — how to spiritually support some 14,000 athletes and their staff who will take part in the Paris Games.
French prosecutors say three people have been released from custody pending further investigation after they allegedly placed five coffins at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
The road to Paris has come to an end for the legendary Oksana Chusovitina after sustaining an injury in training at the Asian Championships, her last opportunity to qualify for the Paris Olympic Games.
Some 40,000 meals will be served each day during the Paris Games to over 15,000 athletes from 200 different countries housed at the Olympic village.
This guide breaks down the rules and official competition format for Olympic cycling's mountain bike event. Learn how champions will be crowned in mountain biking at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
How Tokyo Olympic all-around champion Suni Lee has persevered through illness and self-doubt to make a run for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
In a meticulously choreographed ceremony on Tuesday, the flame for this summer’s Paris Olympics will be lit at the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games in southern Greece.
Many other past Olympic hosts around the world have decided in recent years that bringing back the Games isn’t worth the money or hassle.
Police in Paris have removed about 50 migrants, including families with young children, from the Paris City Hall plaza as the capital prepares to mark 100 days to the start of the Olympic Games.
The International Olympic Committee says it needs to find a suitable new international boxing body by early next year or else risk boxing dropping out of the Olympics for the Los Angeles Games in 2028.
U.S. waterpolo goalkeeper Ashleigh Johnson talks about the increase of diversity within the sport and what progress is being made.
Learn about the biggest storylines from sport climbing in speed, bouldering and lead in the three years since the Tokyo Olympics. Find out which sport climbers could be competing for gold at the 2024 Paris Games.
Recapping the most essential highlights from Olympic sport climbing, including a list of every medalist so far and the current records for sport climbing ahead of the 2024 Games in Paris.
An exhibit in the French capital before this summer's Paris Olympics shows how the games have been a “mirror of society” since the beginning of the 20th century.
Breaking is making its Olympic debut in Paris. The community hopes its rich culture and Bronx roots are represented.
Learn about the biggest storylines from park men's and women's surfing in the three years since the Tokyo Olympics. Find out which surfers could be competing for gold at the 2024 Paris Games.
France's public administration minister says the government will offer bonuses to civil servants mobilized to work in Paris during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in a bid to avoid strikes.
Parisians have voted to muscle SUVs off the French capital’s streets by making them much more expensive to park starting next September.
The presidents of Ukrainian and Russian Olympic committees fought together as teammates at the 1992 Barcelona Games and won a gold medal in fencing for the post-Soviet Unified Team.
A Belarusian track coach who tried to force a sprinter to return home from the Tokyo Olympics after she was critical of the team has been charged with breaching the sport’s integrity standards.
The German government has confirmed that families of 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian militants at the 1972 Munich Olympics will receive a total of 28 million euros (dollars) in compensation.
The families of 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian attackers at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and the German government have reached a deal over the long-disputed amount of compensation.
Great Britain and Japan will face off Saturday night for the women's curling Olympic gold medal. Here's what to know about how both teams got here, and how to watch the game.
Thomas Krol from the Netherlands won the men's 1000m speed skating event for his first career Olympic gold medal at 29 years old.
Anna Shcherbakova won a stunning gold medal in women’s figure skating at the Beijing Games while Russian teammate Kamila Valieva tumbled all the way out of the medals after a mistake-filled end to her controversial Olympics.
Mikaela Shiffrin took ninth in the super-G Friday in China. Given her first two Olympic races, it was a success. And if you listened closely to her interview afterword, you might pick up the sounds of the best female skier on earth putting herself back together.
Results, updates and latest news from Day 5 of competition at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics on Wednesday, February 9.
The air went out of the sports world when Mikaela Shiffrin laid it down in Gate 7 Monday in China. With the slalom looming -- her specialty -- there's only one option: Re-focus and move forward.
China has accused the United States of violating the Olympic spirit after the Biden administration announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Games over human rights concerns.
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Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah bested her gold-medal winning time in Tokyo at the Prefontaine Classic on Saturday, and Sha’Carri Richardson finished last in her return to the track after controversy.
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Triathlon saw Norway's Kristian Blummenfelt take gold for the men, Bermuda's Flora Duffy win on the women's side. Great Britain proved they were the most complete triathlon team winning the inaugural mixed relay event.
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The 2020 Tokyo Olympics featured some fierce volleyball competition; the games ultimately concluded with France taking the men's gold, while Team USA took the women's gold.
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