2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
FILE - United States' Julie Ertz reacts after losing to Sweden at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, in Tokyo. Ertz was named to the U.S. national team roster for a pair of upcoming matches against Ireland next after taking time off for the birth of her son. Ertz was among 26 players named to the roster, announced by coach Vlatko Andonovski on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan, File)
Julie Ertz returns to US team for 2 friendlies with Ireland

By Anne M. Peterson Mar. 28, 2023 03:27 PM EDT

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain returns to Tommy Paul during the Miami Open tennis tournament, Sunday, March 26, 2023, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Andreescu, Paul advance to 4th round at Miami Open

Mar. 26, 2023 03:34 PM EDT

FILE - Britain's gold medalists Helen Glover, left, and Heather Stanning pose for photographs with their medals after the medal ceremony for the women's rowing pair rowing event at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 12, 2016. Two-time Olympic rowing champion Helen Glover is making another comeback in a bid to qualify for a fourth Summer Games, saying she will be representing a “whole community of parents" in elite sport. (Ezra Shaw/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Olympic rowing champion Helen Glover aiming for Paris Games

Mar. 22, 2023 06:38 AM EDT

McKeown sets 200-meter backstroke swimming world record

Mar. 10, 2023 04:23 AM EST
SYDNEY (AP) — Three-time Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown broke the world record in the 200-meter backstroke Friday at the New South Wales State Open swim...

FILE - Irina Viner, head coach of the Russian national team, president of the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation attends the 2019 Gaidar Economic Forum in Moscow, Russia, on Jan. 15, 2019. Viner, whose athletes won numerous Olympic gold medals has been suspended, in a decision published late Monday, March 6, 2023 following vehement criticism of judges who ended Russia's winning streak in rhythmic gymnastics at the Tokyo Olympics. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
Russian gym coach who criticized Olympic judges banned

Mar. 07, 2023 05:14 AM EST

FILE - Boats prepare to tow giant Olympic rings as they are removed from the waterfront area at Odaiba Marine Park after 2020 Summer Olympics came to an end on Aug. 8 in Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 11, 2021. The Tokyo Olympic bid-rigging scandal widened Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, with Japanese advertising giant Dentsu and five other companies being charged by Tokyo district prosecutors. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Dentsu and others charged in Tokyo Olympic bid-rigging probe

By Yuri Kageyama Feb. 28, 2023 02:57 AM EST

U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski, right, and forward Megan Rapinoe (15) laugh after the team's win against Canada during a SheBelieves Cup soccer match Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
US women's soccer coach paid 27% as much as men's coach

By Ronald Blum Feb. 27, 2023 01:04 PM EST

USA Basketball clinches berth in World Cup, tops Uruguay

By Tim Reynolds Feb. 23, 2023 09:18 PM EST
USA Basketball is heading to this summer’s FIBA World Cup. The Americans clinched their berth in the 32-team field on Thursday night, rallying for an...

FILE - Igor Son of Kazakhstan competes in the men's 61kg weightlifting event, at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on July 25, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. The Weightlifting Federation of the Republic of Kazakhstan (WFRK) said Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, that Igor Son, who won the bronze in the men's 61-kilogram category in Tokyo, was among six weightlifters from the country to receive doping bans. It was first reported in March 2022 that they had tested positive in samples taken by Kazakhstan's anti-doping authorities. It's the second career doping ban for Son, who served a seven-month sanction in 2015. The WFRK said the positive test would not lead to Son being stripped of his Olympic medal. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Tokyo Olympic medalist weightlifter Son banned for doping

Feb. 22, 2023 04:42 AM EST

Femke Bol breaks 40-year world indoor record in 400 meters

Feb. 19, 2023 01:22 PM EST
APELDOORN, Netherlands (AP) — Femke Bol broke a 40-year-old world indoor record in the women’s 400 meters on Sunday, covering the distance in 49.26 seconds. ...

Ethiopia’s Girma sets indoor world record in 3,000m

Feb. 15, 2023 06:56 PM EST
LIEVIN, France (AP) — Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma broke a 25-year-old indoor world record in the 3,000 meters on Wednesday at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais....

Mayor of Marseille Benoit Payan, center, raises the Olympic flag with Head of Paris 2024 Olympics Tony Estanguet, center right, after a press conference at the Marseille City Hall, southern France, Friday, Feb. 3. 2023. Instead of arriving overland, the symbolic flame alighting the Paris 2024 Games will take to the seas from its birthplace in Greece, arriving aboard a three-masted tall ship in the French port of Marseille. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Olympic bans and boycotts go back a century

By The Associated Press Feb. 03, 2023 11:30 AM EST

FILE - Workers prepare to remove giant Olympic rings from the waterfront area at Odaiba Marine Park after 2020 Summer Olympics came to an end on Aug. 8 in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. A Japanese company embroiled in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic corruption scandal said Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, it would strengthen oversight to prevent further wrongdoing. (Kim Kyung-hoon/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Tokyo Olympic bribery scandal rolls on; company apologizes

By Yuri Kageyama And Stephen Wade Feb. 02, 2023 04:33 AM EST

FILE - United States' Diana Taurasi, left, and Brittney Griner tale part in a women's basketball practice at the 2020 Summer Olympics, July 24, 2021, in Saitama, Japan. Taurasi’s USA Basketball career isn’t done just yet. The five-time Olympic gold medalist is part of the national team training camp in Minnesota next month. While Taurasi will be at the camp, Brittney Griner won’t. She is still part of the pool that the 2024 Olympic team will be chosen from. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, file)
Taurasi to take part in USA Basketball training camp

By Doug Feinberg Jan. 31, 2023 12:16 PM EST

Alexander Zverev of Germany plays a backhand return to Michael Mmoh of the U.S. during their second round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
ATP abuse probe finds 'insufficient evidence' against Zverev

Jan. 31, 2023 07:23 AM EST

Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan reacts after defeating Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia in their quarterfinal match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023.(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Australian Open lookahead: Azarenka vs. Rybakina in semis

Jan. 25, 2023 06:09 AM EST

FILE - Dallas Wings guard Allisha Gray handles the ball during a WNBA basketball game against the New York Liberty in Arlington, Texas, on Aug. 10, 2022. In a deal announced Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023, the Atlanta Dream have acquired Olympic gold-medalist Gray in a trade that sent a pair of first-round picks to the Dallas Wings. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
Dream acquires G Allisha Gray from Wings for 1st-round picks

Jan. 21, 2023 02:41 PM EST

FILE - Peter Bol, of Australia, wins a men's 800-meter semifinal at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on Aug. 1, 2021, in Tokyo. Australian Olympic middle-distance runner and 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medalist Peter Bol has tested positive to a banned performance-enhancing drug, according to Athletics Australia on Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)
Australian Olympic runner Bol tests positive for EPO

Jan. 20, 2023 02:05 AM EST

Olympic triple jumper Ana José Tima suspended in doping case

Jan. 16, 2023 01:21 PM EST
MONACO (AP) — Two-time Olympic athlete Ana José Tima was provisionally suspended for two positive tests for doping substances, track and field’s Athletics Integrity...

2024 US Olympic diving trials coming to Knoxville, Tennessee

Jan. 12, 2023 05:39 PM EST
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. diving trials for the 2024 Olympics will be held in Knoxville, Tennessee. USA Diving awarded the competition to the...