From the botched format to the economic and environmental concerns surrounding the Rio course, Olympic golf is on course to be a major letdown

Ronda Rousey’s claim to dominance is certainly strong, and Katie Ledecky is up there – but if Serena Williams wins the US Open, we have our answer

The US tanked at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, winning just one medal, after several years of off-ice chaos. Has a change of management made a difference?

Unless world champion Lindsey Van and her fellow plaintiffs win an appeal of a court case to be heard in November, women's ski jumping won't be on the Olympic program.

“The blues ain’t about feelin’ better. The blues are about making other people feel worse.” — Bleeding Gums Murphy Journalists and blues musicians have a lot in common…

In covering Iceland’s handball team today, I got this quote: What we thought before this game is just to do what our forefathers did. They at most endured, like, two or three days at home in …

Long before she hit it big in MMA and posed nude for ESPN magazine, Ronda Rousey was a brash young judo phenom with a penchant for armbars ...

Caster Semenya carried the flag for South Africa in the London Games opening ceremony. She has advanced to Saturday's final in the women's 800-meter run, where she's a legitimate medal contender based on her past results and qualifying time...

The amateurs from Baltimore put a good scare into D.C. United on Tuesday night, taking an early 1-0 lead and remaining tied through the 80th minute, but were unable to match Dallas Roma FC (2006) and…

In his fourth Olympics, U.S. biathlon veteran Jay Hakkinen was determined not to let his team go out meekly from a disappointing Games.

When Todd Lodwick was a minute away from finishing the last race of his fifth Olympics on Thursday, his mind was on what was happening ahead, down the hill and around two turns at Whistler Olympic Park.

Whistler Village's outdoor nightlife has been lively during the Games. For a daytime party, Whistler Olympic Park's biathlon venue is the place to be.

Nordic combined world champions Todd Lodwick and Billy Demong, pioneers in their sport in the United States, are Olympic medalists at last.

Kikkan Randall and Caitlin Compton posted the best U.S. result ever in women's Olympic cross country skiing, placing sixth, as the team sprint lived up to its wild reputation Monday with mishaps, fast times and the occasional bit of vomit.

Imagine Michael Phelps climbing out of the pool after completing the butterfly leg of a medley relay, cheering for a teammate, then hopping on the starting block to go again. That's the team sprint in cross country, where each skier on a two-skier...

Biathlon can be a cruel sport, and U.S. favorite Tim Burke felt that cruelty once again in Sunday's 15k mass start.

Kris Freeman competes in the grueling sport of cross country skiing with Type I diabetes. Most days, he manages it well; some days, he posts results such as his two fourth-place finishes in World Championship competition. In Saturday's men's...

Simon Ammann of Switzerland became the first ski jumper to win four individual Olympic titles with his victory Saturday in the large hill event.

Norway's Marit Bjoergen won her second gold and third medal of the 2010 Olympics on Friday on a day as suitable for sunbathing as it was for skiing at Whistler Olympic Park.

As a toddler, Anders Johnson followed his ski-jumping sister up the hill to try the sport for himself. On Friday, Alissa Johnson stood at the bottom of the large hill at Whistler Olympic Park to see her 20-year-old brother take what might be his...

Kikkan Randall knew she'd have a tough fight in Wednesday's cross country classical sprints. The American finished second at the World Championships last year, but that competition was in freestyle. Randall has never been as strong in classical and...

German biathlon star Magdalena Neuner won her first Olympic gold medal Tuesday, easily overtaking Slovakian sprint winner Anastazia Kuzmina in the women's 10k pursuit.

Switzerland's Dario Cologna won the men's 15-kilometer freestyle cross-country race at the Vancouver Games on Monday in his Olympic debut.

Charlotte Kalla of Sweden won the women's 10-kilometer freestyle race. The U.S. women's best was No. 30 at the Vancouver Games for her first Olympic gold medal.

Johnny Spillane has claimed the first U.S. medal in the sport of Nordic combined, testing an athlete's ski jumping and cross country skiing ability.

Vincent Jay of France has won a gold medal in his Olympic debut, capturing the 10-kilometer sprint at the Vancouver Games.

For the young American team, the event was good experience. All three moved through Friday's qualification round, but none reached the final 30. Nick Alexander and Peter Frenette tied for 41st; Anders Johnson placed 49th.

The best U.S. men's water polo performance in 20 years of Olympic play came to an end somewhere in the third quarter, as two-time defending champion Hungary pulled away with five unanswered goals on the way to a 14-10 win in the gold-medal match.