Lindsey Vonn nearly did it again.

Russian athletes have informed the International Luge Federation that they have obtained visas to compete in a World Cup race in Lake Placid, New York, next weekend.

The IOC has taken a big step toward reintegrating Russia and Belarus into world sports.

Verona's ancient Roman Arena is getting a modern facelift for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games.

Three skiers from Russia and six from Belarus have been approved to compete in qualifying events for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games in February.

Most of Bhavani Thekkada’s competitors grew up on skis.

The NHL remains cautiously optimistic about sending top hockey players to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in February.

Hockey at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics will be played on slightly shorter ice than NHL regulation size.

Construction on the main hockey arena is still not finished.

Olympic swimming champion Gregorio Paltrinieri started off the torch relay for the Milan Cortina Winter Games on Saturday marking exactly two months before the Feb. 6 opening ceremony.

Sports officials from United States cities have gone to the heart of the Olympic family this week to show their country wants to host more world championships and top events.

Ukraine has condemned two-time Olympic diver Sofiia Lyskun’s switch to represent Russia amid the ongoing war and will try to strip her of awards.

A preliminary cauldron has been lit by the Olympic flame at Italy’s presidential palace as the countdown to the Milan Cortina Winter Games approaches the two-months-to-go mark.

The Trump administration has instructed U.S. embassies and consulates around the world to prioritize visa applications from foreigners wishing to visit the United States to either invest in America or attend the 2026 World Cup, 2028 Olympics and other major sporting events.

Olympic downhill champion Corinne Suter has crashed in training and cannot ski until about a month before she is due to defend her title.

Yuma Kagiyama has upstaged world champion Ilia Malinin of the United States to lead the men’s short program at the figure skating Grand Prix Final in Nagoya.

The Olympic flame for the Milan Cortina Winter Games has landed in Rome following a handover in Greece.

A new wave of peptides, often banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, is easily available online, raising concerns about potential Olympic doping scandals.

Russian sports minister Mikhail Degtyaryov says the country’s skiers and snowboarders have won a court ruling to get the chance to apply to compete as neutral athletes for qualification events to the Winter Olympics.

There is no backup plan if the main ice hockey arena for the Milan Cortina Winter Games is not ready on time.

Swiss ski star Marco Odermatt has started the World Cup super-G season with a Thanksgiving win at Copper Mountain and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde reduced fiancée Mikaela Shiffrin to tears by making his comeback after nearly two years out.

The Enhanced Games is going public in two ways — with a new listing on the Nadsaq stock exchange and also by offering a direct-to-consumer business focused on performance products.

The Olympic flame began its journey Wednesday for the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Games after bad weather forced officials to move the traditional lighting from ancient Olympia to a nearby museum.

The Olympic flame for the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Games will be lit at Ancient Olympia, continuing a tradition that uses the sun’s rays to symbolize continuity with the original Greek competitions.

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.

The Intuit Dome will be called just that for the Los Angeles Olympics, after organizers struck a deal with the makers of tax and business software as part of a groundbreaking arrangement to sell naming rights for venues at the upcoming Summer Games.

The first official test race on the controversial sliding track being rebuilt for the Milan Cortina Olympics was won by skeleton world champion Matt Weston of Britain.

The mountains that will host the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Olympics have been hit with their first significant snowstorm of the season.

Ski star Lara Gut-Behrami has suffered a potentially career-ending left knee injury during training in the United States.

There won’t be any spectators for the opening races at the controversial sliding venue for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

If you’re an older swimmer or returning to the pool after years away, few are more qualified than Rowdy Gaines to guide your workouts.

As part of a seismic schedule change for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, track and field, and not swimming, will lead off the Olympics.

Organizers of traditional snow and ice sports said Wednesday they do not want events from summer federations added to their Winter Olympics program.

Ferrari executive chairman John Elkann has warned that Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc need to “focus on driving and talk less” after both drivers failed to finish the Brazilian Grand Prix.

Three-time world champion Kaori Sakamoto performed a near-flawless free skate to defend her title in what she says will be her final NHK Trophy.

Atlanta Falcons coach Raheem Morris has prepared a video to show his players in case they need to get up to speed on Jesse Owens’ accomplishments at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Sebastian Coe would love to see a cross-country running race brought back to the Olympics at the 2030 Winter Games.

The stakes for all these U.S. skiers, skaters, snowboarders and sliders over the next 100 days could not be more clear.

Northern Italy is gearing up for the Milan-Cortina Olympics, set to be the most widespread Winter Games ever.

Climate change is affecting winter sports worldwide, with shorter winters and less snow.

With 100 days to go until the Winter Olympics, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has begun the complicated and expensive task of identifying female skiers and snowboarders who need to take gender tests before they arrive in Italy.

Lindsey Vonn feels like she has nothing to prove in her bid to return to the Olympics at the age of 41.

Flavor Flav, the iconic rapper and reality star, has become the official hype man for the USA Bobsled and Skeleton team.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is increasingly confident big league players will participate in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

The all-time winningest World Cup ski racer and two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin is launching a podcast next week.

The Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic organizing committee has unveiled two official posters for the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Mikaela Shiffrin has already ruled out competing in the downhill at the Milan-Cortina Olympics.

The International Olympic Committee says it recommends no international sporting events be held in Indonesia after the country barred Israeli athletes from the gymnastics world championships in Jakarta.

The U.S. track team overhauled its struggling relay strategy to start this Olympic cycle and won four of five possible gold medals at the world championships in Tokyo last month.

Ukraine's top Olympic sliding contender is frustrated with the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation's potential decision to allow Russian athletes to compete in the Milan-Cortina Games.

Ilia Malinin has showed just how far ahead of his figure skating rivals he is in the run-up to the Winter Olympics.

USA Basketball has explained the process of hiring Erik Spoelstra as the next Olympic coach.

Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus has announced her immediate retirement from elite swimming in a surprise move.

Construction on the main hockey arena for the Milan-Cortina Games is going down to the wire with NHL players preparing to return to the Olympics for the first time in more than a decade.

USA Basketball has announced Erik Spoelstra as the new coach for the men's team for the 2027 World Cup in Qatar and the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

Erik Spoelstra of the Miami Heat has emerged as the frontrunner to become the next coach of the U.S. men’s basketball team for the 2027 World Cup and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya is ending her seven-year legal challenge against sex eligibility rules in track and field.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league plans to launch women’s and men’s professional flag football leagues “in the next couple of years."

The International Paralympic Committee has lifted the partial suspensions of Russia and Belarus.

World figure skating champion Alysa Liu is changing her short program for this season.

Skiing’s governing body has approved a gene testing policy for gender eligibility in women’s events.

Kara Lawson helped the U.S. women’s basketball team win an Olympic gold medal as a player 17 years ago.

The International Olympic Committee has confirmed that Russian athletes will compete as Individual Neutral Athletes at next year’s Milan-Cortina Winter Games.

Elena Delle Donne has taken on a new role as USA Basketball's first managing director of the 3-on-3 women's national team.

Former Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen failed to advance out of the first round of the 1,500 meters at the world championships, denying one of the meet’s most competitive races of one of its most dramatic characters.

When he closes the book on 2025, Ryan Crouser will have six official shot put attempts on the books.

Russian bobsled and skeleton athletes will not compete at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics.

Shaun White and Nina Dobrev have called off their engagement and brought an end to their five-year relationship, a person close to the couple tells The Associated Press.

Japan’s National Stadium was fanless four years ago during the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics.

Organizers of the Salt Lake City 2034 Winter Games have announced a fundraising effort that they say is the largest philanthropic campaign supporting a host city in Olympic and Paralympic history.

The 2008 U.S. Olympic men's basketball team, forever to be called the Redeem Team, goes into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this weekend.

Roy Jones Jr. has the gold medal from the 1988 Olympics — thanks to a gift from the South Korean fighter who defeated him in the controversial boxing match.

The startup Olympic-style sports festival promising no drug testing has filed an $800 million antitrust lawsuit against its main critics for what it claims is an illegal campaign to make athletes boycott its own event.

Two Olympic gold medalists have accepted a three-month ban after a scandal over tampering with ski jump suits for Norway men’s team at this year’s world championships.

American-born Chinese skier and Olympic freestyle gold medalist Eileen Gu has suffered an injury while training in New Zealand.

Noah Lyles says he's “super excited” about his progress toward defending his 100 and 200 meters titles at track and field’s world championships in Tokyo next month.

Organizers of the Los Angeles Olympics will sell naming rights for a handful of its venues in deals expected to bring multiple millions of dollars to the 2028 Games while breaking down the International Olympic Committee’s long-sacrosanct policy of keeping brand names off its stadiums.

The Olympics’ newest rowing competition is a beach run, a coastal row and a music party rolled into one.

Outgoing USA Gymnastics president and CEO Li Li Leung is looking forward to a break.

Hezly Rivera has claimed victory at the U.S. gymnastics championships.

A new wave of gymnasts are ready to step into the spotlight at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships.

The U.S. was knocked off the top spot in FIFA’s latest women’s rankings by world champion Spain.

Stephen Nedoroscik, known as "Pommel Horse Guy," remains dedicated to gymnastics despite his newfound fame.

Lindsey Vonn has added former ski champion Aksel Lund Svindal to her coaching team as she prepares for next year's Winter Olympics.

President Trump is signing an executive order establishing a task force for the Los Angeles games in three years.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday established a task force on the 2028 Olympic Games being held in Los Angeles that he said would ensure the event is “safe, seamless and historically successful.”.

Wyatt Hendrickson will face Mostafa Aly Elsayed Gabr Elders in Real American Freestyle wrestling's main event on Aug. 30.

The United States, which had a frustrating swim world championships, ended on a high note Sunday with a world record in the women’s 4x100 medley in the last event of the eight-day championships.

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Rowdy Gaines minces few words when he broadcasts swimming for the American network NBC.

Léon Marchand of France has won gold in the 200-meter individual medley at the swimming world championships in Singapore and it had a Texas flavor to it.

Léon Marchand has broken the world record in the 200-meter individual medley at the world championships in Singapore, clocking 1 minute, 52.69 seconds to surpass the 1:54.00 set in 2011 by American Ryan Lochte.

Katie Ledecky has ceded a tiny bit of ground in other events, but she’s still unbeatable in the 1,500-meter freestyle.

The Tour de France is breaking tradition this year by having riders climb Montmartre during the final stage.

The United States team at the swimming world championships in Singapore is battling a case of “acute gastroenteritis” that compromised performances on the opening day of eight days of competition in the pool.

For Summer McIntosh of Canada, it’s one gold medal won at the swimming world championships with four to go.

Léon Marchand’s life changed drastically after he won four gold medals a year ago in the Paris Olympics.

Summer McIntosh is set to compete in five individual events at the world swimming championships in Singapore.

Yu Zidi of China is only 12 years old and has qualified for the world swimming championships in Singapore.

The Milan-Cortina Olympics are the first games with two host cities in the name.

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred and players’ union head Tony Clark say plans are moving ahead exploring the possibility of using major leaguers in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, a tournament that could be played on an extended All-Star break.