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Despite the grisly picture that Lindsey Vonn tweeted of her knee last week, the Vancouver downhill gold medalist says she’s pleased with her progress, and is recovering ahead of schedule after tearing two knee ligaments during a crash at worlds three weeks ago. That’s the good news. But Vonn also said during a conference call…
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The six members of the Australian men’s 4x100m swim relay, which finished fourth despite being favored to take gold, will face an integrity panel after admitting they used banned sleeping pills during an initiation before the London Games. The men admitted to the incident after it was reported in a review commissioned by Swimming Australia,…
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After Oscar Pistorius spent more than a week in jail without bail following the shooting of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, the South African sprinter was granted bail of about $112,000 Friday on the premeditated murder charge brought against him. Prosecutors said they considered Pistorius a flight risk, and urged the court to keep him in…
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The U.S. Luge team is enlisting your help (and mine!) in locating five sleds that slid down a road near Allentown, P.A. last Friday, sans racers. The team’s marketing director, Nagano Olympic silver medalist Gordy Sheer, said he was hauling them back to his hotel after working at a ski resort last week, and didn’t…
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We asked which U.S. city should host the 2024 Games. You picked…
Feb 21, 2013, 2:37 PM EDT
OlympicTalk has rarely received such passionate responses – or seen as many exclamation points – as it did when we asked “Which city would YOU want to see host the Summer Games?” after the USOC sent letters to 35 mayors asking if they’d be interested in bidding for the 2024 Olympics. Most of you voted…
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Nike suspended its contract with Oscar Pistorius after he was charged with premeditated murder in a Pretoria, South Africa court Monday for shooting and killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. “We believe Oscar Pistorius should be afforded due process and we will continue to monitor the situation closely,” Nike wrote in a brief statement. Pistorius, who…
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Oscar Pistorius’s uncle Arnold said Wednesday in a TV interview that the famous South African sprinter was in shock in a Pretoria jail, and only started eating on Tuesday – nearly a week after shooting his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. “He only started to eat last night,” Arnold told eNews Channel Africa. “Carl and Aimee [Pistorius’s…
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Bulgarian wrestling federation president Valentin Yordanov sacrificed his Atlanta gold medal in the name of his sport Wednesday, and returned it to the IOC after its executive board recommended dropping wrestling from the Games. “As a sign of protest I am returning my gold medal, won at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, to…
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While everyone you’ve ever met is upset about wrestling being ousted from the 2020 Olympics Schedule, and the sport’s governing body is going through the painstaking process of attempting to get it reinstated through two IOC votes, squash is the little engine that’s making a strong argument to take wrestling’s spot in the Games. The…
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The USOC sent letters to 35 mayors Tuesday in order to gauge interest and begin the process of hosting its first Olympics since 2002. “Our objective in this process is to identify a partner city that can work with us to present a compelling bid to the IOC and that has the right alignment of…
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USA Wrestling reiterated its efforts toward having the sport reinstated to the 2020 Olympics schedule during a tournament in Tehran Tuesday, and explained that it plans to cooperate with every nation, from Iran, to Russia, to Cuba in order to see their goals met before an IOC executive board vote this May in St. Petersburg.…
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A review of the Australian swim team’s performance in London last summer, released Tuesday, details “toxic incidents” and a “lack of collective leadership” that might have led to the team’s worst showing in two decades. Some of the most damning evidence against the team, which took home only a single gold from the Olympics, includes…
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Reps from both the U.S. and Russia are preparing for battle after the IOC recommended the expulsion of wrestling from the Olympics in a vote last week. USA Wrestling announced Monday that is has created the Committee for the Preservation of Olympic Wrestling, which will be headed by former world champ Bill Scherr. The group…
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Oscar Pistorius has been officially charged with the premeditated murder of his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, in a South African court Tuesday. However, a statement from the the Blade Runner, read in court, says that Pistorius believed Steenkamp was an intruder and he felt a “sense of terror” and also felt “extremely vulnerable” since he…
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Former NCAA wrestler Anthony Robles, who won a national title in 2011 despite having only one leg, has said he’s coming out of retirement to train for the 2016 Olympics after the IOC recommended that his sport be removed from the Games. “If this is the last chance to be at that elite level, I…
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A South African newspaper is suggesting that a bloody cricket bat found at the home of Oscar Pistorius last Thursday could be the key piece of evidence in the ongoing murder case. The well-regarded City Press, citing sources close to the investigation, is reporting that police officers found the bat in Pistorius’s bedroom after being…
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SOCHI, Russia – American skeleton racer Noelle Pikus-Pace gave new meaning to “Mother Russia” with her win Saturday at the Sochi World Cup, held on the future Olympic track at Sanki Sliding Center. The Utah native has had a blazing comeback season — she retired after finishing fourth at the 2010 Olympics — but she…
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Raphael Martinetti, president of wrestling’s world governing body (FILA), resigned Saturday following the IOC’s recommendation to remove the sport from the 2020 Summer Olympics schedule. Martinetti had been in the position since 2002, but was issued a vote of no confidence by FILA’s executive committee Saturday at a meeting in Thailand, and according to FILA…
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American teen Mikaela Shiffrin earned her first career world title Saturday at the Alpine Ski World Championships in Schladming, Austria. The 17-year-old becomes the third youngest woman in history to stand atop the slalom podium. “I haven’t yet realized what just happened. I don’t know if I ever will. It was crazy, there were so many…
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Ted Ligety becomes first man since 1968 to win three world titles
Feb 15, 2013, 8:43 AM EDT
Ted Ligety added to an incredible, if not surprising, Alpine Ski World Championships Friday in Schladming, Austria by taking gold in the one race he was actually expected to win: the giant slalom. He becomes the first man since Jean-Claude Killy of France in 1968 to win three world titles in one year. “I wasn’t easy.…
