League One Volleyball announced the addition of superstar athlete Haleigh Washington to its pro league roster featuring Olympic Gold medalists Kelsey Robinson and Justine Wong-Orantes, Washington will join LOVB as it prepares to launch its pre-season following the Paris Olympics in 2024.
Hey, Izzy, we've got some good news. Your 26-year reign as the worst Olympic mascot is over. The often-ridiculed computer-generated blob from the 1996 Atlanta Games has been toppled as the G.O.A.T., for Grossest Of All Time, by the mascot for the 2024 Paris Olympics, a floppy hat known as a Phryge.
The legendary athlete is declared the sole winner of the Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for violations of amateurism rules.
The 15-year-old athlete tested positive in December for trimetazidine, a drug typically prescribed to much older patients suffering from angina and other heart-related conditions.
With Kamila Valieva seizing the top spot, 25 skaters advance to the next segment. Normally, only the top 24 move on from the short program. But these Games aren't normal.
At their ages, Jacobellis' and Baumgartner's win over Italy and Canada during the first-ever Olympic mixed team snowboard cross events broke multiple records.
The man who fiercely shreds halfpipes openly shed tears on the snow, saying he was proud of his effort. It closed the book on a record-setting Olympic career.
"Coming back out and getting the chance to race again was just the perfect thing to do, actually," Shiffrin said. She had failed to finish qualifying runs in two events earlier this week.
Skeleton is a heart-racing event where a single racer flies face first down a frozen track. The inherent pressure of being "the first" and "only" isn't fazing her, Kelly Curtis says.
Shiffrin, a two-time Olympic champion, did not to finish the women's slalom race on Wednesday. She previously won a gold medal in this competition in 2014 during the Sochi Olympics.
"The sport of ski jumping has experienced one of its darker days," a Norwegian official said, after athletes from some of the top medal-contending teams were disqualified from competing.
Despite a fall during one of their qualifying runs, Shaun White and Chloe Kim were able to move on to the medal round of the men's and women's halfpipe events.
Diggins snared a hard-won bronze medal in the grueling event after Swedish skiers took an early lead. The only other time a U.S. athlete has won an individual medal in cross country came in 1976.
