[ad_1] Jun 11, 2024, 09:31 AM ETWho will make the USWNT's 18-player roster for the 2024 Olympics? Matt Krohn/USA TODAY SportsEmma Hayes is a few weeks into her official tenure as head coach of the U.S. women's national team and she already has a pivotal decision to make: She must narrow a talented pool down to an 18-player roster for the Paris Olympics, where the Americans hope to win a gold
[ad_1] Jun 12, 2024, 07:09 AM ETRafael Nadal has been chosen to the Spanish tennis team for the Paris Olympics, where he will also partner with French Open champion Carlos Alcaraz in doubles, the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation announced Wednesday.Nadal, who has been limited the past two years by a number of injuries, has said the Games were his focus and that he could skip Wimbledon to prepare."My main goal
[ad_1] Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterJun 12, 2024, 07:49 AM ETClose• Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018PARIS -- Les Bouquinistes have been selling their secondhand books by the Seine since the 1500s. Through revolutions and World War II, they kept their stalls open. Their little green boxes, containing old paperback copies
[ad_1] Jun 14, 2024, 08:36 AM ETMELBOURNE, Australia -- Mollie O'Callaghan swept to victory in a stacked 100-meter freestyle final, while Emma McKeon's hopes of defending her gold medal in Paris were crushed at Australia's Olympic trials on Friday.O'Callaghan won in 52.33 seconds, 0.39 clear of runner-up Shayna Jack, who wept after securing the second individual 100-meter berth three years after missing Tokyo while banned for doping.McKeon claimed the 50
[ad_1] Jun 14, 2024, 08:23 AM ETROME -- Top-ranked Jannik Sinner will compete in both singles and doubles at the Paris Olympics, the Italian tennis federation said Friday.This will be the first Summer Games for 22-year-old Sinner, who reached the top spot in the men's rankings this week following his run to the semifinals of the French Open, where he lost to eventual champion Carlos Alcaraz. Sinner won the Australian
[ad_1] Jun 14, 2024, 08:00 AM ETThe U.S. Olympic swim trials get underway on Saturday in Indianapolis as the country's best and fastest in the pool battle it out with tickets to Paris on the line.Held at Lucas Oil Stadium -- yes, there will be a pool in the middle of a football stadium -- the competition will last for nine days and by the end of the final race
[ad_1] Jun 14, 2024, 10:10 AM ETLAUSANNE, Switzerland -- The International Olympic Committee will next month vote on the creation of new Olympic Esports Games that the Olympic body hopes will become the peak of achievement for gamers around the world, president Thomas Bach said Friday.The IOC has been looking into esports for several years and formed a dedicated commission to look at opportunities. In 2021, it developed the Olympic
[ad_1] Jun 14, 2024, 03:44 PM ETThe banning of Russian sliders, coaches and others from International Luge Federation events as a response to the country's invasion of Ukraine will continue indefinitely, the sport's governing body said Friday.Representatives from 27 national federations, gathered in Lake Placid, New York, for the federation's annual congress, voted to extend the ban "in an effort to ensure a safe [and] peaceful" sport with integrity, the
[ad_1] Jun 14, 2024, 10:12 AM ETLAUSANNE, Switzerland -- The International Olympic Committee will deploy AI to block any abuse on social media directed at 15,000 athletes and officials at the Paris Olympics next month, president Thomas Bach said Friday.The Games are being staged amid ongoing wars in Ukraine, following Russia's invasion in 2022, and between Hamas and Israel in Gaza -- events that have already led to cases of
[ad_1] Jun 12, 2024, 06:12 AM ETKyle Chalmers needed four cortisone injections for a debilitating back injury before securing his spot at a third Olympic Games.Chalmers pushed through the pain barrier to win the 100m freestyle at Australia's Olympic selection trials on Thursday in Brisbane.Editor's PicksOn a night when Kaylee McKeown again fell just shy of another world record, Chalmers revealed that just 10 days ago he had doubts of
