Olympics

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.

With one bad bounce in the final minute of regulation that became the tying goal and an unsuccessful shootout, the United States is out of the men’s hockey tournament at the Beijing Games after a shocking 3-2 loss to Slovakia in the quarterfinals Wednesday.

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.

The North Carroll High School graduate at one point had the lead in the triathlon before finishing third behind gold medalist Flora Duffy of Bermuda and silver medalist Georgia Taylor-Brown of Great Britain.

As Cathy Kalisz watched her son, Chase, sink back into the pool, the realization of what he’d done washing across his features, she knew he had left every inch of his being in that water. This was the way her four children, raised in Bel Air, learned to race as members of the North Baltimore Aquatic Club.

Katie Ledecky, the 24-year-old from Bethesda, lost to Australian rival Ariarne Titmus in a highly anticipated showdown by .67 of a second.

With his gold-medal swim, Bel Air's Chase Kalisz officially climbed all the way back from a shoulder injury that hampered his training and shredded his confidence in the run-up to the Tokyo Games.

Five years ago, Bel Air native Chase Kalisz was a fresh face ready to make noise as a first-time Olympic swimmer. After a stretch defined by injury and disappointing results, he's back on the Olympic stage and confident he'll leave his best effort in the pool as he pursues an elusive gold medal.

Swimmers Chase Kalisz, Katie Ledecky and Jessica Long, wrestlers Kyle Snyder and Helen Maroulis, and breakout track star Christina Clemons headline the list of U.S. Olympians and Paralympians from Maryland who have punched a ticket to Tokyo.

Good Counsel graduate Uche Eke will be the first gymnast from his father’s home country of Nigeria to compete in the Olympics this summer in Tokyo.