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Skier/snowboarder Ester Ledecka has 2 Olympic races on same day in 2026, hoping for schedule change

Dec. 12, 2024 17:18 PM EST

BEAVER CREEK, Colo. (AP) — As the situation stands, snowboarder/ski racer Ester Ledecka has two Olympic races on the same day in 2026, at nearly the same time and in Italian mountain towns hours apart. The Czech Republic standout simply can’t make both starting gates. So she may...

Forgan and Kirkby win a World Cup women's doubles luge gold for the US

Nov. 30, 2024 12:26 PM EST

LILLEHAMMER, Norway (AP) — Chevonne Forgan and Sophie Kirkby became the first Americans to win a World Cup luge gold medal on foreign soil in nearly seven years, prevailing Saturday in the season-opening women's doubles race. It was part of a two-medal day for USA Luge. Emily...

US runner Shannon Rowbury on course for 2012 Olympic medal after Russian disqualified

Nov. 19, 2024 07:47 AM EST

The results of the London Olympics are still changing more than 12 years later. Shannon Rowbury of the United States took another step toward a long-delayed bronze medal on Tuesday when Russian runner Tatyana Tomashova was officially disqualified from the women's 1,500 meters final...

US track wants to shorten Olympic trials and put them at LA Coliseum

Nov. 14, 2024 20:22 PM EST

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The leader of USA Track and Field cut through confusion surrounding the 2028 Olympic trials, saying the preference is to hold them in the LA Coliseum several weeks before the actual Olympic track meet takes place there. Max Siegel told The Associated...

Dallas Long, who won 2 Olympic medals while dominating the shot put in the 1960s, has died at 84

Nov. 12, 2024 22:59 PM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dallas Long, a three-time NCAA shot put champion who won a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, has died. He was 84. He died of natural causes Sunday in Whitefish, Montana, USC said Tuesday after being informed by a family member. No further details were...

Abdi Nageeye of the Netherlands and Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya win the New York City Marathon

Nov. 03, 2024 20:01 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Abdi Nageeye and Sheila Chepkirui used strong kicks in the final mile to pull away from their nearest competitors and both win the New York City Marathon for the first time Sunday. Nageeye, who became the first runner from the Netherlands to win the men's race, was...

Kenya's Sheila Chepkirui wins the women's race at the New York City Marathon

Nov. 03, 2024 11:02 AM EST
NEW YORK (AP) — Kenya's Sheila Chepkirui wins the women's race at the New York City Marathon.

Romanchuk wins men's wheelchair race at NYC Marathon, Scaroni wins women's event

Nov. 03, 2024 10:19 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Marcel Hug's three-year streak as New York Marathon men's wheelchair champion is over after Daniel Romanchuk won the race on Sunday. The Swiss star, nicknamed the Silver Bullet, had won 16 straight marathons, including a gold medal at this year's Paris Paralympics....

The NYC Marathon is here. Your guide to following along with 50,000 runners from home

Nov. 02, 2024 16:19 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Marathon is Sunday, with more than 50,000 runners from over 150 countries expected to start the race. The winner of the men's and women's division will each earn $100,000. Here's a guide for the NYC Marathon, which starts in Staten Island and ends...

Olympic medalist race walker Koki Ikeda of Japan suspended in doping investigation

Nov. 01, 2024 12:57 PM EDT

MONACO (AP) — Olympic silver medalist race walker Koki Ikeda of Japan has been provisionally banned for suspected blood doping, track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said on Friday. Ikeda was second in the 20-kilometer event at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and placed seventh...