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 ...
Italy's Schwazer gets 3 ½-year ban for doping
Italy's anti-doping tribunal has banned former Olympic race walk champion Alex Schwazer for 3 ½ years. Schwazer, who won the 50-kilometer event at the ...
Moscow to host 2014 worlds in 3-on-3 basketball
The 2014 world championship in 3-on-3 basketball will be held in Moscow, which could be its first as an Olympic sport. The International Basketball ...
Mo Farah's marathon debut ends midway
Double Olympic long-distance champion Mo Farah shrugged off criticism and stuck to his plan to run just half of the London Marathon on Sunday before ...
Madrid Marathon enrollment up after Boston bombing
Enrollment for next week's Madrid Marathon has risen following the deadly bombings at the Boston race. Entries increased fourfold the day after ...
Memories of safe Olympics assure London runners
Any anxiety marathon runners have about competing in London after the Boston bombings is being allayed by memories of the successful security measures ...
Cyclist Hoy retires after winning 6 Olympic golds
Six-time gold medalist Chris Hoy retired from cycling Thursday, saying he had expended "every last ounce of effort and energy" in becoming Britain's ...
S&P warns Russia on high costs for 2018 World Cup
Many of the Russian cities hosting the 2018 World Cup will have trouble finding the money to build soccer stadiums and improve transit links and other ...
Bolt back in London for Diamond League event
Usain Bolt will headline the Diamond League meeting at London's Olympic Stadium in July, returning to the scene of his clean sweep of sprint gold ...
Boston bombs raise worries for Olympics, World Cup
From London to Sochi to Rio de Janeiro, the deadly bomb attacks on the Boston Marathon raised new concerns Tuesday over safety at major sports events ...
London Marathon to go ahead after Boston bombings
Determined to put on a show of "solidarity" for Boston, defiant London Marathon organizers will stage the race as planned on Sunday despite the threat ...
International officials react to Boston attacks
International reaction to the bombings at the Boston Marathon: ___ "My thoughts and those of all the Olympic Movement are with the victims, their ...
Russia ponders sports security lessons from Boston
Russian officials gave mixed signals Tuesday over whether they needed to increase security at key sporting events like the World Athletics ...
Murofushi challenges IOC election bar at CAS
Former Olympic champion Koji Murofushi left sport's highest court on Thursday after a two-day hearing to challenge his disqualification at the London ...
Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang out for season
Former Olympic hurdles champion Liu Xiang will miss the 2013 season because of his slow recovery from an Achilles injury. Jos Hermens, the Chinese ...
Thatcher had troubled relations with UK sports
Margaret Thatcher barely concealed her distaste for sports while serving as prime minister of Britain. Instead, she tried to use the athletic arena ...
IOC mulls requests for new events at 2016 Olympics
Three years out from the Rio Games, 3-on-3 basketball and BMX freestyle are competing in an alternative Olympic contest — trying to win selection to ...
2 top Olympic sports lose major sponsor
Two major Olympic sports are in the hunt for new sponsorship deals after key commercial partners announced the end of their partnership right in the ...
Baseball still lacks MLB guarantee for Olympic bid
Baseball and softball's joint bid for Olympic reinstatement is still lacking a guarantee that major league stars would be freed up to play ahead of ...
Greece: 5 jailed for militant anarchist attacks
A Greek court on Wednesday convicted five people on terrorism-related charges related to a militant anarchist group which claimed responsibility for ...
Olympic wrestling champion Martinescu dies at 73
Wrestling's governing body says former Olympic champion Nicolae Martinescu of Romania has died. He was 73. Martinescu won gold in the Greco-Roman ...
US, French tourists kidnapped, 1 raped in Rio
A night out on the town turned into a nightmare after an American woman was gang raped and beaten aboard a public transport van while her French ...
Russian hammer thrower Kuzenkova banned for doping
Former Olympic hammer throw champion Olga Kuzenkova of Russia has been banned two years for doping and is set to lose her 2005 world championship ...
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