Winter Olympics Close; Elana Meyers Taylor Sets Record
The 2022 Winter Olympics came to a close with the United States winning a total of 25 medals—8 Gold, 10 silver, and 7 bronze. Norway led the way with 37...
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Canada Beats the United States for Olympic Gold in Women’s Hockey
Since Women’s Hockey was added to the Olympics in 1998, every Gold Medal has gone to either Canada 2002, ’06, ’10, ’14) or the United States (1998, 2018), and both...
Ryan Cochran-Siegle Wins Alpine Skiing Olympic Silver Medal 50 Years After His Mother Won Gold
At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, 21 year old Barbara Ann Cochran won the Gold Medal in the Women’s Slalom by the narrowest of margins, 0.02 seconds over...
Allyson Felix Wins Record 11th Olympic Medal; Men’s and Women’s 400m Relay Teams Sweep Gold
Allyson Felix won a U.S. record 11th Olympic Medal as the U.S. Women’s 4 X 400 relay team took the gold in one of the last track events of the...
Andre de Grasse of Canada Wins Men’s 200 meters; Americans Kenneth Bednarek an Noah Lyles win Silver and Bronze
Andre de Grasse edged Americans Kenneth Bednarek and Noah Lyles in the men’s 200 meters at the Tokyo Olympics to become the first Canadian to win the event since Percy...
Jamaicans Sweep Women’s 100m; Italian Sprinter Lamont Marcell Jacobs Wins Men’s 100m
Usain Bolt has retired, but the tradition of great sprinters from Jamaica lives on, at least for women. Elaine Thompson-Herah, winner of the 100 meters in Rio in 2016, successfully...
Great Britain Wins Men’s 4 X 200 Relay; U.S. Fails to Medal
In the 1908, Great Britain won the 4 X 200m Men’s Freestyle Relay in the Olympic Games held in London that year. It was a long wait for the next...
U.S. Men Win 4 X100m Freestyle Relay; Katie Ledecky Takes Silver in 400m
There’s no Michael Phelps on this year’s U.S. Olympic men’s swim team—he’s a once in a lifetime athlete—but there are still plenty of good swimmers on the team that will...
Sydney McLaughlin Breaks World Record in Women’s 400 Meter Hurdles at Olympic Trials
The Covid delayed Olympics are still on in Tokyo in July, and the final trials for the U.S. teams are wrapping up. It appears that the representatives for Women’s 400...
R.I.P. Leon Spinks
Olympic Gold Medalist and former Heavyweight boxing champion Leon Spinks died in Las Vegas on February 5th, 2021. Spinks had been battling prostate cancer in recent years. He was 67...
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