Breakdancing, or breaking, has moved one step closer to becoming an Olympic sport. The International Olympic Committee voted its provisional approval for the addition on Tuesday, also giving a nod to surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing. Breaking would join the program at the 2024 Summer Games...
Having confidently glided up to the top pipe on a ramp nearly 10 feet high, skateboarder Sky Brown lost her footing while trying a trick and tumbled down the slick concrete. Coming to a stop at the bottom of the course, her right arm already wrapped in a pink cast from a spill two weeks prior,...
A new professional league for elite swimmers will launch in October with meets in seven cities across the United States and Europe, ending with a championship in a temporary pool in Las Vegas. The International Swimming League announced its schedule Tuesday. The season begins Oct. 4-5 in Indianapolis,...
While swimming to Olympic glory, Michael Phelps found comfort in the pool and quite a bit of angst out of it. His bout with depression reached its nadir in 2014 after a second DUI arrest. That's when the most decorated Olympian of all time checked himself into a rehabilitative center in a desperate...
Outside the modest Sherman Oaks home of Los Angeles’ most unassuming sports legend hangs a flag. It is not a flag of a team or an accomplishment, but of a mission. “Love,” it reads. Inside, Rafer Johnson, 83, an athlete whose life both literally and figuratively lit a flame, speaks of his legacy...
South Africa’s national track federation plans to appeal the landmark ruling in the Caster Semenya case, a government official said. The country’s minister of sport told multiple news outlets Monday that Athletics South Africa would file its challenge in Swiss federal court within a 30-day deadline....
A thudding beat fills the nightclub, music so loud it rattles your bones. Emerging from the crowd, a guy in white sneakers and a bright yellow hoodie skitters onto the empty dance floor. With plenty of room to move, he drops suddenly, catching himself on one hand and kicking his legs in the air....
TOKYO — The Tokyo Olympics are caught between the proverbial rock and hard place. Tokyo organizers are trying to cut spending, under pressure from the International Olympic Committee, which has been widely criticized for pushing host cities to build "white elephant" venues — often at the taxpayer's...
Thomas Hong of Laurel and Maame Biney, a native of Ghana who was raised in Rockville, were named by US Speedskating to the 2019-2020 long track and short track national teams. Hong and and Biney were named as part of a 28-member team that will train at the Utah Olympic Oval this summer. Women’s...
Jessica Anderson trained for the London marathon with a goal: she wanted to be the fastest female to complete the race dressed as a nurse. Breaking the Guinness World Record was "a challenge but not totally out of reach," Anderson said, and on Sunday, she accomplished the feat — passing the marathon...
A day after losing a historic court decision, Caster Semenya hinted at early retirement on social media but was also entered to compete at a professional track meet in Qatar. The South African runner failed in her appeal of a controversial rule that will require her and other female athletes with...
In a landmark ruling that touches upon complex issues of gender in sport, South African runner Caster Semenya has lost her appeal against track officials who may now proceed with a controversial rule that defines her and other female athletes by their body chemistry. The international Court of...