Olympics

With new confidence and Simone Biles as her training mate, Jordan Chiles is ready to make the Olympic team

Jordan Chiles was just joking when she first started talking to Simone Biles about changing gyms and joining her at…

5 years ago

Australian softball squad leaves for Tokyo Olympics, among first athletes to travel to Japan for Games

The Aussie Spirit, the Australian women's softball team, will be among the first athletes to arrive in Japan for the…

5 years ago

Caster Semenya fails to clock Olympic qualifying time in Pretoria 5000m race

Caster Semenya won the South African 5000m title in Pretoria in April, but she is yet to post an Olympic…

5 years ago

Kerri Walsh Jennings, Brooke Sweat in danger of missing Olympics

Kerri Walsh Jennings, eyeing a sixth Olympics at age 42, and new partner Brooke Sweat must rally past another U.S.…

5 years ago

I’m a lifelong competitive athlete and a mom: Transgender athletes aren’t a threat to women’s sports

Policies at the Olympic level allowing transgender athletes to compete have been in place for years, and yet we have…

5 years ago

Megan Rapinoe, Carli Lloyd called into United States training camp; Julie Ertz out

Megan Rapinoe, Carli Lloyd, and Alex Morgan have been named to United States women's national team training camp

5 years ago

Olympic champion Caster Semenya’s critics couch misogynoir in the language of ‘equality’

Like a true champion, Semenya knows this fight is about more than herself or Olympic gold. It’s about women’s freedom…

5 years ago

Simone Biles Dials Up the Difficulty, ‘Because I Can’

The Olympic gold medalist’s new vault is so dangerous that gymnastics, for now, limits the scoring rewards for trying it.…

5 years ago

Opinion: Simone Biles’ new vault move pushes boundaries and motivates her for Olympics

Biles returns to competition Saturday for the first time since the 2019 world championships, where she became the most-decorated gymnast,…

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