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Anita DeFrantz ’74, the first—and so far, only—Black woman to earn an Olympic medal in rowing, will be inducted into the U.S.
Malala Yousafzai tells CNN Sports that she wants more opportunities granted to Afghanistan’s elite female athletes and ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The 2026 Winter Olympics are still months away, but we know that at least one member of the Buffalo Sabres will be there, competing for his home country. Defenseman Rasmus Dahlin ...
The six Olympic Games of Bach’s 12 years were rocked by Russian doping scandals and military aggression, Korean nuclear tensions, a global health crisis and corruption-fueled Brazilian chaos.
The Taliban has banned many things since seizing Afghanistan nearly four years ago. There's no music, no videos of living creatures on most Afghan TV stations - that sounds like radio. Mostly no women ...
U.S. Olympic officials are looking forward to hosting both the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles and Utah’s next Winter Games in 2034, what Sykes said promises to be “an amazing decade of sport.” Sykes ...
To supplement LA’s sports facilities, OKC will host 9 canoe slalom sessions and 17 softball sessions. Team OKC, the group spearheading OKC’s Olympics planning, currently has just one staff member: ...
Greek Alpine skier AJ Ginnis, a world slalom silver medalist and former U.S. Ski Team member, will be the first torchbearer of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympic torch relay that starts Nov. 26. Ginnis, ...
Afghanistan is in discussions with Russia to import certain foodstuffs as the conflict between Israel and Iran, one of its largest trading partners, risked cutting off supplies, its agriculture ...
Erika Johnson, a 38-year-old Special Olympics athlete, was surprised with the news that she qualified for the 2026 Special Olympics USA Games. Johnson will represent Texas in golf at the USA Games in ...
Birmingham is a contender to host the U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials in 2028. Gene Hallman, president of Eventive Sports in Birmingham, told AL.com that the city’s bid is one of four currently ...