USOC keeps interested eye on 2020 Olympic race
The U.S. Olympic Committee is observing the bidding for the 2020 Games, hoping to learn something from Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo as they try to land ...

Beaten by Gatlin, Bolt shows signs of slowing down
After five years of dominating sprinting, Usain Bolt is showing signs of slowing down. The Jamaican lost by one-hundredth of a second Thursday to ...
Wrestling leader confident of IOC reprieve
As the man leading wrestling's charge to preserve its Olympic status, Nenad Lalovic believes he's done what it takes. Three months after wrestling was ...

WADA to hold meeting in China on gene doping
Olympic officials and scientific experts will meet in China next month to review the progress in developing a test for gene doping, the potential ...

Gay athletes have come out while active or retired
Even before Jason Collins, plenty of other athletes around the world have come out as gay, either while still active or in retirement. From Martina ...

Boston Marathon bombs put world's cities on alert
With two high-profile events in the days ahead — Margaret Thatcher's funeral and the London Marathon — British officials are looking anew at security ...

Led by Ligety, US gets most golds at ski worlds
Julia Mancuso got the ball rolling with an almost forgotten bronze medal on the same day Lindsey Vonn had a season-ending crash. Ted Ligety followed ...
NHL meets with IIHF again on Olympic issue
Two days of talks between the NHL and international hockey officials wrapped up Friday with signs that the league will wind up sending its players to ...

Jacques Rogge to meet with wrestling leader
Facing a wave of criticism from around the world, IOC President Jacques Rogge will meet with the head of wrestling's governing body to discuss ways ...

Defending GS champion Maze favorite at worlds
With the season's World Cup discipline title already secured, defending champion Tina Maze will be the one to beat in the women's giant slalom at the ...

Column: Swifter, higher, stronger? Or just dumber?
The motto of "swifter, higher, stronger" says little about the Olympics these days and everything about the lengths to which the clueless ...
US, other sliders upset with Sochi ice conditions
Bobsled and skeleton athletes from the U.S and other nations are upset over ice conditions at the track that will be used for Sochi Olympics, saying ...

Ligety wins super-combi for 2nd gold at ski worlds
Ted Ligety is no longer just a giant slalom specialist. By winning gold medals in super-G and super-combined at the world championships, the American ...

Her knee shredded, Lindsey Vonn done for season
All it took was a moment. Lindsey Vonn landed hard and tumbled face first with a piercing shriek. Just like that, her season was done. The star ...

Sochi a point of national pride for Putin's Russia
One year before Russia hosts its first Winter Olympics, this Black Sea resort is a vast construction site sprawling for nearly 40 kilometers (25 ...

IOC strips Lance Armstrong of Olympic bronze medal
Thirteen years after he stood on the podium in Sydney, Lance Armstrong has been stripped of the bronze medal he won at the 2000 Olympics because of ...
Bode Miller to miss rest of the season
Bode Miller will skip the rest of the World Cup season to rest his surgically repaired left knee. The two-time overall champion had microfracture ...

Canada's Humphries wins bobsled World Cup event
Olympic and world champion Kaillie Humphries of Canada bounced back to win a women's bobsled World Cup event Friday and hand German rival Cathleen ...

Douglas wins AP female athlete of the year honor
Gabby Douglas, the first African-American to win the all-around Olympic gymnastics title in London, was chosen The Associated Press female athlete of ...

Larry Probst re-elected as USOC chair
Once considered a reluctant conscript to the U.S. Olympic Committee, Larry Probst now embraces his role. So much, in fact, that he's staying on for ...