Olympics

Paralympian Jessica Long’s story of being adopted from a Siberian orphanage by a Baltimore couple will be featured in a Toyota advertisement slated to run during the second quarter of Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast.

The retired Olympic swimmer has experienced this feeling often as he’s dredged up “all the things I stuffed down for 25 years” in preparation for a planned book and the release of “The Weight of Gold,” an HBO documentary set to debut at 9 p.m. Wednesday.

Michael Phelps will narrate and serve as the subject of a new documentary on the mental health challenges faced by Olympic athletes, set to debut on HBO at the end of July.

For fans missing their favorite teams while quarantining at home, some of Maryland’s most iconic sports figures have provided encouraging messages.

With the Tokyo Games on hold because of the coronavirus, the retired swimming great worries that some athletes might have trouble coping with this unprecedented postponement.

As Olympians and Paralympians with Maryland ties processed a postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Games, they said it was the only sensible call in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Several, in fact, called the delay to 2021 a relief.

The Bel Air native and Fallston High School graduate was the first American to simultaneously hold world, Four Continents and U.S. championships. Still, she had her doubts about her impact on the sport.

Under Armour unveils a new marketing message during a global summit of athletes, trainers, influences and others descending on the Port Covington offices for a week of workout sessions, product reveals and meet-and-greets with star athletes.

Olympic gold medalist Helen Maroulis, a Rockville native, is planning to return to wrestling in March.

Thomas Hong and Maame Biney, a pair of short-track speed skaters with Maryland ties, each won a pair of titles this weekend at the national championships in Utah.

Meissner, who grew up in Bel Air in Harford County, won the world championship in 2006, when she finished sixth at the Turin Olympics at the age of 16.

Ibrahim, Muhammad, Musa and Yusuf Robinson are coached and managed by their father Shawn, who has turned a storage room in the basement of the family’s home into a gym.

Daniel Romanchuk repeated as the New York City Marathon men’s wheelchair champion Sunday in another tight finish over Switzerland’s Marcel Hug.

Simone Biles set the all-time record for most medals by any gymnast at the world championships by winning the balance beam and floor exercise Sunday.

Mount Airy native Daniel Romanchuk defended his Chicago Marathon crown in the men’s wheelchair division.

Simone Biles has won her fifth world gymnastics all-around title, underlining her status as the clear favorite for next year's Olympic gold medal.

Simone Biles won a record 21st medal at the world gymnastics championships on Tuesday as the United States retained its women's team all-around title.

Renowned track coach Alberto Salazar, who trained four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah, along with gold medalist and Maryland native Matthew Centrowitz, and other top contenders at this week’s world championships, has been kicked out of the competition after being handed a four-year ban in a case long pursued by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

On the final night of competition Sunday at the World Para Swimming Championships, Mallory Weggemann and Loyola Maryland graduate McKenzie Coan recorded a 1-2 finish.

Fifteen-year-old Kayla DiCello of Boyds captured the gold medal at the U.S. Junior Nationals in August. Her next goal: representing the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Becca Meyers of Timonium won the United States’ first gold medal of the World Para Swimming Championships in London on Monday.

The all-time record holder for Olympic gold medals (23) discussed the loss of several of his records, the controversy of performance-enhancing drugs in swimming, and his laser-like focus in … the kitchen.

Simone Biles messed around and got a triple-double. And just about everything else, too, on her way to a sixth U.S. women's gymnastics title.

Kayla DiCello, a 15-year-old from Boyds, Maryland, who trains at Hill’s Gymnastics in nearby Gaithersburg, won the U.S. junior all-around women’s gymnastics title Sunday.

Sam Mikulak clinched his modern era-record sixth national title Saturday night by topping runner-up Yul Moldauer by a staggering 5.550 points

Caeleb Dressel won his record eighth medal at the world swimming championships Sunday, breaking Michael Phelps' previous record of seven.

Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi want their USA Basketball legacy to be more than just winning medals. The four-time Olympic gold medalists came up with an idea for a training plan for USA Basketball leading up to next year's Tokyo Olympics.

The Americans got ailing Katie Ledecky back but couldn't overcome a world record by the Australians.