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Michael Phelps, Gabby Douglas, and Great Britain 10000m gold medalist Mo Farah have all landed on the short-list for Time’s “Person of the Year.” The Olympians join a group made up mostly of political figures (no surprises there) that includes reelected President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Jon Stewart…
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The pristine lawns of Wimbledon. A dominating Serena Williams. Britain’s first home-grown champion in more than 70 years. In 2012, it seemed tennis was truly embraced at the Olympics. Or, was it? In the months since the closing of the 2012 Games, some of the game’s top players have committed themselves to Rio in 2016:…
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The fact that gold medal alpine skier Lindsey Vonn finished 21st in Aspen this weekend was already impressive after she spent two nights in a Colorado hospital with severe intestinal pain last week. Now, after reading about her ordeal in a letter she contributed to the Denver Post, it seems like a miracle the 28-year-old…
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“Dancing with the Stars” has long been a haven for Olympic gold medalists like Kristi Yamaguchi, Shawn Johnson, and Apolo Anton Ohno, who have all won the Mirror Ball trophy during the show’s run. But during this, the All-Star return season, Johnson has upped the ante on her Olympic competitors. Monday night the Beijing balance…
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IOC officials are at the Hong Kong Open this week to determine whether or not squash is worthy of the one available spot open on the Olympics competition schedule in 2020. The sport is going up again heavy hitters like baseball and softball – both voted out of the Games in 2005 – as well…
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Olympic officials will discuss samples from a number of unnamed athletes who tested positive for doping during the Games when the IOC Executive Board gathers for a meeting in Switzerland next week. Oh, one important note: the samples are from 2004. Now that the IOC has more sophisticated means of testing for banned substances they’ve…
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World record sprinter Usain Bolt seemed concerned about his age – all of 26 – this weekend in Barcelona when he picked up his award for IAAF world athlete of the year, so he says he’ll run as fast and as smooth as he can now, instead of waiting to break the world record on…
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Now IOC President Jacques Rogge is apparently in favor of doubling the doping ban on Olympic athletes caught using performance-enhancing drugs from two years to four years, and said at a conference in Amsterdam Monday that the measure “satisfies” the IOC’s desire to increase sanctioning on doping. “We are waiting for the final text but…
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Olympic gold medal alpine skier Aksel Lund Svindal became the first man to sweep both world cup races at the Lake Louise course in Alberta Sunday since Bode Miller pulled off the same feat back in 2004. The Norwegian won the downhill race on Saturday with a time of 1:48.31, then clocked a time of…
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Vancouver downhill gold medalist Lindsey Vonn was sitting tenth in Aspen after her first giant slalom run of the world cup season, but didn’t have anything left in the tank for her second trip down the mountain after spending two nights in a Vail, Colo. hospital with “severe intestinal pain” earlier this week. She finished…
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World record sprinter Usain Bolt was named the IAAF world athlete of the year Saturday in Barcelona, beating out American hurdler Aries Merritt and Kenyan distance runner David Rudisha, who both won gold in London. It was the fourth time in five years that the Jamaican took home the honor. “I really worked hard and…
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What are you thankful for? That’s what we asked some of the athletes walking the red carpet at USA Swimming’s Golden Goggle Awards earlier this week. Here are their answers: Chloe Sutton I’m thankful for my family and how close I am with my family. I’m happy for my brother having an amazing football season…
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China’s Sun Yang destroyed the field (and the world record) in London’s 1500m freestyle swim, and then threw in another gold in the 400m free, and a silver and bronze to wrap up a nice little Olympics. Now the 20-year-old has even bigger goals of fame and fortune, and hopes he can distance himself from…
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Before the London Olympics, U.S. swimmer Tyler Clary told us about his passion for off-road racing and said he was designing a custom buggy for that purpose. Then he won Olympic gold in the 200m backstroke. Clary’s life as an Olympic champion has certainly changed, and so have his out-of-the-pool interests: He’s scrapped his buggy…
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One would hope that we as a general population have been convinced to stop doing stupid things at sporting events, but Ashley Gill-Webb allegedly threw a plastic beer bottle on the Olympic track in London mere seconds before the men’s 100m final back in August, and now we have to start over. Gill-Webb, 34, was…
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British cyclist Sir Chris Hoy just won two gold medals in London to become the most decorated Olympian in the nation’s history, along with Bradley Wiggins. Now he’ll decide whether or not to continue his career or call it quits sometime next spring. Or… he could continue on until the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow…
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Shamed Chinese badminton star Yu Yang, who was thought to have retired after she was kick out of the London Games for giving less than her best effort to win, is now apparently back. “I never said I would retire,” Yu told the South China Morning Post Tuesday. “It was only other people [who] said…
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Olympic BMX cyclist Kyle Bennett had a blood alcohol level of nearly twice the legal limit when he died in a car crash outside his home in Conroe, Texas on the morning of Oct. 14. According to an autopsy obtained by the town’s local paper, The Courier of Conroe, a county medical examiner reported that…
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Is it fair to hop back in a high school pool after winning five Olympic medals? Probably not. Still, that’s the question facing 17-year-old Missy Franklin. She recently signed up to swim at Cal next year with Olympic coach Teri McKeever, but Missy said the decision about whether or not to continue her high school…
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NEW YORK – It was a magical night at USA Swimming’s Golden Goggle Awards Monday night, the organization’s annual gala that recognizes the top performances of the year. The usual suspects were in attendance – Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Nathan Adrian, Missy Franklin, Rebecca Soni, Dana Vollmer and a whole lot more. There were also…
