Speed skating – Credit: (Imagn) There are two forms of speed skating that will take place at the 2022 Winter Olympics: long track and short track. One is a rhythmic race against the clock while the other is a fast-paced ...
Speed skater Irene Schouten – Credit: (Imagn) The kickoff 2022 Winter Olympics speed skating competition is the Women’s 3000m. Skaters will line up in pairs and race against the clock in this near two-mile distance. Mia Manganello Kilburg represents the United ...
Olympic oval in Beijing – Credit: (Getty Images) As training for the long track speed skating competitions entered the eighth day ahead of the Winter Olympic Games, skaters said they were getting used to the venue and unfamiliar conditions at the new Beijing ...
Short track skater Kristen Santos – Credit: (Imagn) United States short track speed skater Kristen Santos enjoyed a breakthrough 2021-2022 World Cup season and is peaking just in time to contend for medals at the 2022 Winter Olympics. No American had ...
Erin Jackson has emerged as a gold medal favorite in the lead-up to the 2022 Winter Olympics – Credit: Imagn Erin Jackson After a mere four months of training on ice, Erin Jackson showed up to the 2018 U.S. Olympic ...
Tom Pidcock on Monday gave Team GB its first Olympic medal in mountain biking, a gold, breaking midway at the Izu MTB Course and holding a lead to win the men’s event by 20 seconds. Great Britain, historically known for its ...
TOKYO – The Dutch men’s doubles team have withdrawn from the Tokyo Games after one of the pair, Jean-Julien Rojer, tested positive for COVID-19, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) said. Rojer is the first tennis player, and the sixth member of ...
In one of the biggest upsets in Olympic road cycling history, Anna Kiesenhofer of Austria won the women’s road race early Sunday to capture her nation’s first Olympic medal since the inaugural 1896 Athens Games. Kiesenhofer covered the 85.1-mile (137 km) course from Musashinonomori Park ...
The Canadian pairing of Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan got off to a solid start in the Olympic women’s beach volleyball tournament. Ranked No. 1 in the world in women’s beach volleyball, Humana-Paredes and Pavan took down the Netherlands’ Stam/Schoon to earn their ...