As the UCLA gymnastics team practiced Thursday, a little more than 24 hours before the start of the NCAA championships, the Bruins behaved as they have all season. They danced between exercises and to each other’s floor routines, laughed while sporting shiny blue sunglasses and appeared relaxed,...
Russia plans to fine athletes who get caught doping, though the scheme may not be much of a deterrent for the country's top performers. The Russian parliament voted Thursday to impose a maximum fine of 50,000 rubles ($775) for any athlete caught taking banned substances. Russia has been embroiled...
The Michigan Supreme Court has declined to hear Larry Nassar’s appeals involving two of the multiple prison sentences the former sports doctor is now serving. Nassar was attempting to challenge the 40-plus-year sentences for molesting gymnasts in Eaton County and Ingham County, Mich. “We are not...
Olympian swimmer Michael Phelps and his wife, Nicole, will soon be outnumbered as they prepare for baby No. 3 to join their growing family. The couple announced the pregnancy on Instagram with a photo of their two sons in a toy car decked out with gold balloons spelling “BABY.” The Phelps’ first...
Michael Phelps remembers when he first began to spiral. It was in 2004, months after the swimmer won eight medals at the summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He was arrested for driving under the influence. Ten years later, after the summer Olympics in London, he was arrested for his second DUI. ...
President Donald Trump said Thursday he wants the federal government to continue funding the Special Olympics, an abrupt reversal from his own budget proposal that eliminated federal money for the charity and sparked bipartisan condemnation. His statement on the South Lawn of the White House came...
Gymnast Simone Biles is opening up about the dark period in her life when she “denied” and “buried” the sexual abuse she faced at the hands of former team doctor Larry Nassar. “I was very depressed. I like never left my room, I was sleeping all the time,” she said. “I told, like, one of my lawyers,...
With boxing in danger of being cut from the Olympics, a Russian official has offered pay $16 million to keep what he calls his “favorite sport” in the Summer Games. Umar Kremlev, who serves as secretary-general for boxing in Russia, made the offer in a letter to the International Olympic Committee...
Looking to attract a younger audience, the International Olympic Committee is ready to spin the menu of sports offerings on its head, inching closer to adding break dancing to the 2024 Summer Games in Paris. The IOC's executive board decided at its meeting Tuesday in Lausanne to recommend the inclusion...
Betsy DeVos didn't just receive criticism from members of Congress on Tuesday over the Trump Administration's proposal to cut funding for the Special Olympics. Plenty of people expressed their unhappiness online, as well, when the Education Secretary testified before a House subcommittee. Among...
Barely a month after Paris 2024 officials proposed the addition of breakdancing as an Olympic sport, a U.S. organizer has announced it will bring a major competition to Los Angeles later this spring. The Red Bull BC One will take place at a Hollywood entertainment venue on April 27 as the first...
An American figure skater has been accused of deliberately kicking a South Korean during warm-ups at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships, triggering a request for an investigation by the sport's global governing body and an accusation of bullying. Mariah Bell, 22, allegedly kicked 16-year-old...