The athletes competing include the first autistic runner to break the four-minute mile, the daughter of a 1976 Olympic silver medalist, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering who holds multiple world records, and an athlete who posed in ESPN’s Body Issue.
Boxer Nicola Adams, a two-time Olympic champion who has earned multiple national honors in Britain, is retiring from professional boxing due to concern over potential eye damage.
Japanese company San-Ei has designed a new table tennis table with a distinctive T-shaped undercarriage for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, though the tables are not in use at the current Team World Cup in Tokyo.
Training partners Simone Manuel and Katie Ledecky will have rare head-to-head showdowns when Manuel tries the 200-meter freestyle and Ledecky goes for the 100m free at the first meet of the TYR Pro Series this week in Greensboro, N.C.
IOC president Thomas Bach has pledged $10 million to the World Anti-Doping Agency, half of which would go toward storing samples from pre-Olympics testing for 10 years and the other half toward investigations and research.
The U.S. baseball team advanced in the Premier12 and kept open its chances of claiming an early Olympic qualifying berth with a 10-8 win over the Dominican Republic on Monday.
Canadian short track speedskater Kim Boutin set a world record in the 500 meters and Kristen Santos set a U.S. record at 1,000m at the first World Cup stop of the season over the weekend at Utah Olympic Oval.
Dawn Harper Nelson, who won the 2008 Olympic gold in the 100m hurdles and added medals in the Olympics and world championships, has announced she will return to the track after a one-year retirement to have her first child.
Brigid Kosgei set a world record and Eliud Kipchoge broke the two-hour mark to highlight 2019 in marathons, while Sara Hall and Leonard Korir posted the fastest times among U.S. runners.
Sexual abuse survivors, survivor advocates and journalists are speaking at the first of a set of public hearings by an independent commission, called Game Over, that will put forth a set of recommendations to preventing cases such as the Larry Nassar case and others in Olympic sports.
The U.S. baseball team dropped an 8-2 decision to Mexico at the Premier12 on Sunday, setting up a must-win game against the Dominican Republic to advance to the final round and have a chance to nail down an Olympic qualification berth early in the process.
Soelden, Austria, has sufficient snow to host the World Cup Alpine skiing season opener as planned Oct. 26-27, international ski federation FIS said Thursday.
Scott Brosius has replaced Joe Girardi as U.S. baseball coach one month before the Premier 12, a tournament with Olympic qualifying berths at stake. Girardi stepped down to pursue major league opportunities
Siblings Brian and Karissa Cook led U.S. four-player beach volleyball teams to gold medals Wednesday on the final day of the World Beach Games in Qatar.
The International Olympic Committee has moved the 2020 Olympic marathons and race walks from Tokyo to Sapporo, the 1972 Winter Olympic host, hoping for cooler weather and fewer dropouts.
Transgender athletes will have to reduce their testosterone level to the same level applied to Caster Semenya and other athletes with Differences of Sex Development (DSD), under a new policy enacted by World Athletics (formerly the IAAF).
