Shaun White starting new halfpipe league in hopes of increasing prizes, visibility for action sports

Shaun White is starting a season-long halfpipe league that will offer more than $1.5 million in prizes in hopes of pulling together what has long been a spread-out, confusing action-sports calendar. The 37-year-old, three-time Olympic gold medalist, who retired in 2022 after the...

Gretchen Walsh follows world record with 1st Olympic berth; Carson Foster wins 400 IM

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gretchen Walsh followed up a world record in the 100-meter butterfly with something that felt just as good. Her first trip to the Olympics. Walsh didn’t go quite as fast as a night earlier in the semifinals, but she touched in 55.31 seconds to...

Gabrielle Rose proves age is just a number as she competes in US swim trials at 46

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gabrielle Rose is realistic about her goals. She knows a third Olympics is out of reach. That's OK. This time, she's swimming for an even higher cause. At the age of 46, Rose is by far the oldest athlete at the U.S. Olympic...

Andy Murray selected for 5th Olympics but not certain he will play. Emma Raducanu turns down chance

LONDON (AP) — Andy Murray is not “100% sure” he will play at a fifth Olympics despite his selection for the Paris Games on Sunday. Murray, who back in February signaled his intention to retire later this year, has been granted an International Tennis Federation (ITF) place to...

Schurter and Ferrand-Prevot win mountain bike World Cup in Italy, build momentum for Paris Olympics

VAL DI SOLE, Italy (AP) — Nino Schurter of Switzerland and Pauline Ferrand-Prevot of France won mountain bike World Cup races in Italy on Sunday, making emphatic statements that the veterans are still among the ones to beat at the Paris Olympics in just over a month. Schurter, a...

Katie Ledecky heading to her fourth Olympics, wins 400 freestyle at US swimming trials

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Katie Ledecky is heading to her fourth Olympics, an accomplishment that seemed unimaginable when she was a 15-year-old kid in London. These days, it wouldn't seem like a Summer Games without her. As steady as ever, Ledecky cruised to victory in...

Gretchen Walsh sets a world record in the 100-meter butterfly at the U.S. Olympic trials

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gretchen Walsh set a world record in the women's 100-meter butterfly Saturday night, posting a time of 55.18 seconds in a semifinal heat at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials. Walsh was more than a half-second under world-record pace at the turn and held on to...

Katie Ledecky qualifies for her fourth Olympics with a victory in the 400-meter freestyle at the U.S. swimming trials

Kenyan teenage sensation Wanyonyi becomes third-fastest man in 800m as he qualifies for Olympics

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan teenager Emmanuel Wanyonyi ran the fastest 800 meters since 2012 and his time of 1:41.70 on Saturday makes him the third-fastest man ever in the event. The 2023 world silver medalist's dominant performance at the Kenyan athletics Olympic trials...

Olympic spots are on the line for Patrick Cantlay and Corey Conners at the US Open

PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) — David Puig of Spain knew the score even before he teed off in the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2. All he had to do was make the cut to move past Jorge Campillo and earn a spot in the Olympics this summer in Paris. “Unless someone like Eugenio Chacarra...