The United States won six medals at the 2025 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships — more than any other country ...

With the 2024 Paris Games approaching, Olympic qualifying is now complete and nearly 600 athletes have earned their spots on the U.S. Olympic team. Below is a list of athletes that have qualified to ...

Alpine snowboarding: A type of snowboarding that involves racing through gates on groomed courses. Parallel giant slalom is the only discipline within Alpine snowboarding that will be staged at the ...

Basketball debuted as a medal sport for men at the 1936 Olympics, and women's basketball was later added in 1976. During that time, one nation has dominated the sport, but many different players have ...

For the men's competition, Hungary and Great Britain share the record for most gold medals with three each. Hungary also has a silver and bronze medal. The gold medals for Hungary came in the 1952, ...

Stores are struggling to keep up with demand, according to the Washington Post. Officials promised this week that production would ramp up at factories that are producing the toys. At the official ...

During the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, track and field events will be held between Thursday, August 1 and Sunday, August 11. Track and field fans living in the U.S.’ Eastern time zone will wake up to ...

The center of the medal takes the shape of a hexagon, a reference to the country’s shape and nickname, l’hexagone. This piece of the medal contains fragments of iron that were removed from the Eiffel ...

Even then, even with an extra year of waiting, there was zero doubt who the first Olympic champion would be. The only question? By how much. The foregone conclusion: Katie Ledecky. The margin: 4.13 ...

There is a simple and blessed purity to the story of the ski racing Cochrans of Vermont. More than a six decades ago Mickey and Ginny Cochran bought a home in Richmond, Vermont, 13 miles southeast of ...

Golf at the Olympic Games utilizes an individual stroke-play format similar to events on the PGA and LPGA tours, as well as at all major championships. Players are positioned on the leaderboard ...

A volleyball match begins when the ball is served into play. A team may touch the ball three times – not counting blocks – on its side of the net. The usual pattern is as follows: a dig (underarm pass ...