The U.S. women pulled a shocking upset over Jamaica in the 4x100 relay at the world championships Saturday, securing a .04-second victory.

Noah Lyles led wire to wire and routed the field in the 200 meters Thursday in 19.31 seconds, the third-fastest time ever, to lead America’s second sprint sweep at the world championships.

Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm.

On June 13 — one day before her 26th birthday — Loyola Maryland graduate McKenzie Coan captured her third consecutive world championship in the 400-meter freestyle at the Para Swimming World Championships in Madeira, Portugal.

Michael Phelps, 36, who grew up in Rodgers Forge and retired after the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, made five Olympic teams and won record totals of 28 medals and 23 gold medals.

Vincent Ciattei, who finished 10th in the 1,500 at last summer’s U.S. Olympics Trials, defeated an Olympic-studded field to win USATF’s Grand Blue Mile at the Drake Relays on April 26.

Faced with threats of withdrawals and growing animosity in the Athletes Village, organizers of the Winter Paralympics on Thursday reversed course and expelled athletes from Russia and Belarus.

Russian teams were suspended Monday from all international soccer, including qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup, as Moscow was pushed toward pariah status in sports after its invasion of Ukraine.

The terrarium of a Winter Games that has been Beijing 2022 came to its end Sunday, capping an unprecedented Asian Olympic trifecta and sending the planet’s most global sporting event off to the West for the foreseeable future, with no chance of returning to this corner of the world until at least 2030.

Hannes Björninen scored the go-ahead goal 31 seconds into the third period and Finland claimed its first men’s hockey gold medal with a 2-1 win over the Russian Olympic Committee on the final day of the Beijing Games.

Mikaela Shiffrin and the American mixed ski team missed out on a medal by 0.42 seconds, losing in the bronze matchup Sunday to cap an exasperating Beijing Olympics for the two-time gold medalist, who is going home empty-handed.

Arbitrators have rejected a last-ditch request by American figure skaters to have their silver medals awarded before the end of the Olympics.

Elana Meyers Taylor has won more medals than any Black athlete in Winter Olympic history, the most by any women’s bobsledder at the Olympics and two more than any other U.S. Olympic bobsledder.

Even when Eileen Gu’s simply taking a celebratory stroll through the halfpipe, she still makes it look so effortless. The 18-year-old American-born freestyle skier who represents China, captured Olympic gold in the women’s halfpipe to become the first action-sports athlete to pick up three medals at the same Winter Games.

Anna Shcherbakova won a stunning gold medal in women’s figure skating at the Beijing Games on Thursday night, while teammate Kamila Valieva tumbled all the way out of the medals after a mistake-filled end to her controversial Olympics.

Canada defeated the United States 3-2 in the fierce rivals’ latest showdown to win the gold medal in women’s hockey.

Despite the varied menu at the Olympic Village, the options for athletes are radically more limited this year because of COVID-19 restrictions. They can’t venture out of the Olympic “bubble” to sample the local fare.

It was a short-track shutout for the Americans at the Beijing Olympics. A program that has struggled to recapture the buzz and success it had when Apolo Anton Ohno was the star attraction failed to win a medal for the first time since 1998.

Freestyler skier Alex Hall led a 1-2 American finish in the Olympic men’s slopestyle competition with a trick on his first run in which he completely stopped his rotation mid-air and went the other direction.

Protests have long been restricted by the International Olympic Committee, but last year the rules were eased to allow limited activism at the Games inside the field of play.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, the heavily favored 15-year-old dynamo at the center of the latest Olympic doping scandal, overcame an early mistake to lead after the women’s short program at the Beijing Games on Tuesday night.

Eileen Gu, the standout American-born freestyle skier who represents China, finished runner-up with her last run of the Olympic women’s slopestyle contest. It keeps alive her quest to become the first action-sports athlete to capture three medals at the same Winter Games.

Hilary Knight could think of no better way to close the Beijing Games women’s hockey tournament than a rematch between the United States and — who else? — Canada with the gold medal on the line.

U.S.-born athletes have taken center stage at the Winter Olympics in Beijing — for the host country, that is, generating scrutiny of nationality-switching.

The biggest barrier between Russian figure skating star Kamila Valieva and another Olympic gold medal is no longer a panel of judges holed up in a Beijing hotel room but rather the teammates she practices with every day.

Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France broke their own ice dance world record Monday, winning the Olympic gold medal that narrowly eluded them four years ago in Pyeongchang.

Kaillie Humphries is monobob’s first Olympic champion, finishing off a shockingly one-sided competition at the Beijing Games on Monday. She completed four runs in 4 minutes, 19.27 seconds to lead a gold-silver finish for the U.S. women’s program.