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Vancouver downhill gold medalist Lindsey Vonn suffered a nasty crash at the Alpine World Championships in Schladming, Austria Tuesday. A doctor speaking on behalf of the team reported significant damage to ligaments in Vonn’s right knee, which will apparently require surgery. The Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremony is Feb. 7, 2014. Here’s the video:
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In a race marred by Lindsey Vonn’s injury, fog delays, and plenty of DNFs, World Cup points leader and two-time Olympic silver medalist Tina Maze of Slovenia provisionally won the world super-G championships Tuesday in Schladming, Austria. Maze clocked a time 1:35.39 to hold off Lara Gut of Switzerland by only 0.38 seconds. American Julia…
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Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn will be out for the season after suffering a serious knee injury during a crash at the Alpine World Championships in Schladming, Austria Tuesday during the super-G. Vonn lost her balance on a tough landing, lost her ski, and slid off course into a gate before finally coming to a…
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Former-ish action star Arnold Schwarzenegger has said he’ll be back for the Sochi, while staring ominously through a pair of dark sunglasses, no doubt. But on Monday the Terminator was home in Schladming, Austria for the Alpine Skiing Worlds, where he introduced his gold medal countryman Hermann Maier, aka the Herminator. The former California governor also welcomed…
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Ashley Gill-Webb, the man who semi-infamously threw a bottle onto the London track during the men’s 100m final, was sentenced to eight weeks community service Monday after the judge determined that his idiot mistake, which could have been a “massive embarrassment on the country,” was at least partly due to his bipolar disorder. “Your intention…
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For a man who’s earned 22 Olympic medals and twice as much gold as anyone in history, you’d think Michael Phelps would be used to winning. But the Baltimore native was overcome with emotion after seeing his Ravens hoist the Lombardi trophy. “To be able to watch that, I was in tears,” Phelps said. “I’ve…
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The Indian Olympic Association is suspended by the IOC after the government allegedly interfered with its elections late last year. Now the country’s former Olympics chief is in court on charges of corruption, stemming from his handling of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Dehli. Suresh Kalmadi pleaded not guilty in a written statement on…
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With a tough season already under her belt and rumors swirling about her personal life, Vancouver downhill gold medalist Lindsey Vonn will be surrounded by bodyguards for the alpine skiing World Championships, which start Tuesday in Austria. Vonn told the Boston Globe Sunday that her sponsor, Red Bull, brought in security for her “to make sure I can get…
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Chicago Bulls star Luol Deng must carry some weight in the British sporting world, because his plea to have basketball once again funded by the state worked: The BOA offered a reprieve to the sport Friday, and will indeed fund it for the Rio Olympics. “Today’s news is absolutely fantastic for the sport, I am…
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After two years away from the her sport, skeleton racer Noelle Pikus-Pace is officially back after finishing second at worlds in St. Moritz Friday. “What a great day,” the 2007 world champ said after her final run. “I felt so much better today and I am excited to be on the medal stand. This has…
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The Baltimore Ravens’ No. 1 fan has arrived in New Orleans, the site of Sunday’s Super Bowl. Michael Phelps, who can also be called the Greatest Olympian of All Time (G.O.A.T.), hopes to cap his busy – and definitely exciting – week by witnessing a Ravens victory over the San Francisco 49ers. Phelps visited the…
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Torino figure skating champ Yevgeny Plushenko underwent back surgery Thursday in Tel Aviv, and actually had a deteriorated spinal disc removed and replaced with a synthetic one. “The doctor who performed the operation said it was a success,” Plushenko’s coach Alexei Mishin told Reuters. “It’s too early to make any prognosis about his return to…
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Three of Americas top young speed skaters will miss February’s junior worlds in Poland, where many Olympians make their first mark in the sport, because the U.S. federation didn’t establish the skaters’ international eligibility in time for the deadline set by the sport’s governing body. “I cried until my tears didn’t come out,” Sally Chea,…
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X Games snowmobiler Caleb Moore, 25, passed away Thursday morning due to heart and brain injuries suffered from crash last week in Aspen. Moore was attempting a backflip when his snowmobile caught the lip of the landing area, sending him over the handlebars and face-first into the snow, with the sled landing on top of him.…
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Torino figure skating champ Yevgeny Plushenko says he’ll skate at his hometown Sochi Games next February despite an upcoming operation on an intervertebral disc in his lower back. Plushenko pulled out of the Euro championships last week after being unable to adjust his routine after recently sustained injuries. But he has more than a full…
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Apparently Michael Phelps didn’t have enough sponsorship deals already, so he signed up with Ping, a golf club manufacturer, and will play in the Phoenix Open Pro-Am against Masters champ Bubba Watson using a set of custom-fit sticks. The Olympics’ all-time medal winner has already appeared on the cover of Golf Digest, holed a 153-putt…
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X Games snowmobiler Caleb Moore remains in critical condition after crashing while performing a flip off a jump Thursday in Aspen. His family says they are not hopeful about the athlete’s chances. “Caleb is not doing good at all,” his grandfather Charles Moore told The Denver Post. “The prognosis is not good at all. It’s…
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The IOC executive board will discuss eliminating an event from the Olympic program and adding another during a meeting on February 12 and 13 at their headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. The group will choose one sport to be dropped from the current list of 26, and that sport will then become a candidate vying for…
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Prince Willem-Alexander leaving IOC to start new life… as King
Jan 29, 2013, 2:15 PM EDT
Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander is quitting his post as a committee member of the IOC to take on a slightly taller task: King of the Netherlands. He’s been an IOC member since 1998 and, even though his resignation can’t become official until a September meeting in Buenos Aires, his mother, Queen Beatrix, announced Monday that…
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South Korea will host the Winter Olympics in 2018. In the meantime, the nation is showcasing its sports culture at this week’s Special Olympics. The Games started Tuesday and run through Feb. 5. South Korea’s bid to host the Special Olympics started in 2009 after former lawmaker Na Kyung-won went to the Games in Idaho…
