Mar 15, 2017- Calgary, Alberta, CAN- NHL commissioner Gary Bettman during an interview prior to the game between the Calgary Flames and the Boston Bruins at Scotiabank Saddledome. Mandatory Credit: Sergei Belski-USA TODAY Sports NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman s... More »
French canoe champion and co-president of the Paris candicacy for the 2024 Olympics, Tony Estanguet, speaks during the launch of the international campaign for the Paris bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games, in Paris, France, February 3, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tes... More »
FILE PHOTO – The logo of Bridgestone Corp is seen next to its new Playz tyre at the tyre’s unveiling event in Tokyo, Japan, January 8, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo Japan’s Bridgestone Corp has gone from a rookie Olympic sponsor to a model for fan partic... More »
Asian Winter Games – Opening ceremony – Sapporo Dome – Sapporo, Japan – 19/02/17 – International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President John Coates (R) takes part in the opening ceremony. REUTERS/Issei Kato John Coates is facing a challenge to his role as Aust... More »
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach speaks during a news conference in Pyeongchang, South Korea, March 17, 2017. Yu Hyung-jae/Yonhap via REUTERS Olympic chief Thomas Bach hopes the golf club hosting the men’s and women’s tournaments at ... More »
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach speaks during a news conference in Pyeongchang, South Korea, March 17, 2017. Yu Hyung-jae/Yonhap via REUTERS International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach left the door open to the possi... More »
Yoshiro Mori, Japan’s President of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee, talks during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, May 26, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Peter Picture Supplied by Action Images Fukushima prefecture’s Azuma Baseball Stadium will host at least one ba... More »
2016 Rio Olympics – Synchronised Swimming – Duets Free Routine – Victory Ceremony – Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 16/08/2016. Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia waves from the tribune. REUTERS/Michael Dalder Double Olympic pole vault champion ... More »
2016 Rio Olympics – Artistic Gymnastics – Final – Women’s Individual All-Around Final – Rio Olympic Arena – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 11/08/2016. Silver medal winner Alexandra Raisman (USA) of the U.S, and gold medal winner Simone Biles (USA) hug Raisman’s coac... More »
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a news conference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, January 17, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool/File Photo Russia has never had a state-sponsored doping program, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, afte... More »
Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps reacts as fellow witnesses testify before the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee about anti-doping policy in international sport, in Washington February 28, 2017. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan Michael Phelps urge... More »
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during his state-of-the-nation address in Budapest, Hungary, February 10, 2017. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh Hungary had to withdraw its bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games to avoid a humiliating defeat in the race w... More »
Short Track – Asian Winter Games – Women’s 1000 m – Makomanai, Sapporo, Japan 22/02/17 – South Korea’s Shim Suk-hee (L) and South Korea’s Choi Min-jeong (R) in action during final. Picture taken on February 22, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon South Korea invested... More »
The Twitter logo is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., September 28, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Twitter Inc has found a bright spot in Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy, even as... More »
A leader of political movement Momentum Andras Fekete-Gyor holds one of the boxes consisting over 266,000 signatures from Budapest voters who want a referendum on Budapest’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics in Budapest, Hungary February 17, 2017. REUTERS/L... More »
A leader of political movement Momentum Andras Fekete-Gyor holds one of the boxes consisting over 266,000 signatures from Budapest voters who want a referendum on Budapest’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics in Budapest, Hungary February 17, 2017. REUTERS/L... More »
Edina Pottyondy, Andras Fekete-Gyor, Miklos Hajnal and Anna Orosz, leading members of political movement Momentum which challenges Budapest’s 2024 Olympic bid with a referendum, sit on a sofa at Momentum’s headquarters, located in a basement in Budapest, Hunga... More »
A hostess poses with Hungary’s Olympic logo at a promotional spot as the Hungarian capital bids for the 2024 Olympic Games, in central Budapest, Hungary January 31, 2017. Picture taken January 31, 2017. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh Budapest’s mayor is expected to see... More »
2016 Rio Olympics – Artistic Gymnastics – Final – Women’s Individual All-Around Final – Rio Olympic Arena – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 11/08/2016. Alexandra Raisman (USA) of USA (Aly Raisman) competes on the floor during the women’s individual all-around final. ... More »
Asian Winter Games – Opening ceremony – Sapporo Dome – Sapporo, Japan – 19/02/17 – John Coates (R) takes part in the opening ceremony. REUTERS/Issei Kato Australia hopes to bring a full delegation of athletes to the 2022 Asian Summer Games in China and is seek... More »
Asian Winter Games – Opening ceremony – Sapporo Dome – Sapporo, Japan – 19/02/17 – The flame is seen in the cauldron during the opening ceremony. REUTERS/Issei Kato Asia is ready, willing and able to host a third straight Winter Olympics if the Japanese city o... More »
The re-testing of samples from the 2014 Sochi winter Olympics in Russia to identify any cheats who had competed there will last another five years to 2022, the International Olympic Committee said. More »
A man performs during the ceremony to mark a year to the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea February 9, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji South Korean conglomerate Samsung Group will make good on its sponsorship promises to the 2018 Wint... More »
Hungarian political movement Momentum has collected over 200,000 signatures in its campaign against Budapest’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, which could be sufficient to force a referendum, daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet reported on Friday. More »
A woman is silhouetted against a monitor showing Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics emblems during the Olympic and Paralympic flag-raising ceremony at Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Tokyo, Japan, September 21, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Problems surr... More »
Olympic swimmer Grant Hackett of Australia speaks at a news conference at an event to unveil the new line of Speedo LZR Racer X swim suits in the Manhattan borough of New York City, December 15, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Segar Australian long distance swimming great ... More »
Australia’s bronze medallist Shane Perkins stands with his medal during the victory ceremony after the track cycling men’s sprint finals at the Velodrome during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 6, 2012. REUTERS/Paul Hanna Australian two-time world champion... More »
2016 Rio Olympics – Opening Ceremony – Maracana – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 05/08/2016. The Refugee Olympic Athletes’ team arrives for the opening ceremony. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach A refugee team that competed at the 2016 Rio Olympics with 10 athletes from coun... More »
Women wearing Korean traditional costume Hanbok perform during an unveiling ceremony of the Olympic countdown clock to mark a year to the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, February 8, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji Pyeongchang has waited ... More »
Japan Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda speaks during a news conference in support of the Tokyo 2020 summer Olympics candidacy in Buenos Aires September 4, 2013. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci Tokyo prosecutors have questioned the president of the Japan O... More »
Hurdler Dawn Harper-Nelson poses for a portrait at the U.S. Olympic Committee Media Summit in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California March 7, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Beijing Olympics 100 meters hurdles champion Dawn Harper-Nelson has been banned for three... More »
Embattled Jamaican sprinter Nesta Carter will return to the track this weekend in his first meeting since he was stripped of his Beijing Olympics gold medal after a retroactive test uncovered a banned substance in his sample. More »
American boxer Deontay Wilder arrives at federal court in Manhattan, New York U.S., February 6, 2017. REUTERS/Nate Raymond Heavyweight boxing champion Deontay Wilder and Russian boxer Alexander Povetkin battled in court on Tuesday, at a trial over a title bout... More »
Park In-bee of South Korea hits off the sixth tee during the first round of the LPGA Canadian Women’s Open golf tournament in Coquitlam, British Columbia August 23, 2012. REUTERS/Andy Clark Olympic champion and seven-times major winner Park In-bee has a relati... More »
Sebastian Coe (C), IAAF’s President, Rune Andersen, head of the IAAF taskforce on Russia (R) and Hamad Kalkaba Malboum (L), President of the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) attend a press conference as part of the International Association of Athletic... More »
Russian track and field athletes look certain to miss out on this year’s world championships after an IAAF task force recommended on Monday that the country’s ban should run until November. More »
January 28, 2017- Los Angeles, CA, USA- NHL commissioner Gary Bettman speaks to media before the 2017 NHL All Star Game skills compeition at Staples Center. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports While the National Hockey League has not yet committ... More »
2016 Rio Olympics – Athletics – Victory Ceremony – Men’s 5000m Victory Ceremony – Olympic Stadium – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 20/08/2016. Gold medalist Mo Farah (GBR) of Britain on the podium. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov British Olympic champion Mo Farah said he was r... More »
File photo: Former french ski champion Jean Vuarnet (C), and his sons Pierre Vuarnet (L) and Alain Vuarnet (R) leave Saint Marie-Madeleine church in Morzine January 6, after the funeral of his wife and son Patrick, surrounded by family and friends. Reuters For... More »
Fashion designer, model and singer Victoria Beckham poses on the red carpet as she arrives for the opening ceremony and the screening of the film ”Cafe Society” out of competition during the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 11, 2016. REUTERS/Yv... More »
Ireland’s former Olympic chief Pat Hickey returned to Dublin on Sunday and said he will continue to fight to clear his name after being charged in Brazil in August over an alleged scheme to sell Olympic tickets illegally. More »
U.S. skeleton athletes are considering boycotting the world championships in Sochi next year in protest at the Russian doping scandal and how it has been handled, the New York Times reported on Sunday. More »
John Coates speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, May 26, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Peter Picture Supplied by Action Images Australia’s Olympic chief John Coates has backed calls for an A$50 million ($37.35 million) lottery to boost funding for sport and... More »
2016 Rio Olympics – Athletics – Victory Ceremony – Men’s 4 x 100m Relay Victory Ceremony – Olympic Stadium – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 20/08/2016. Gold medalist Usain Bolt (JAM) of Jamaica celebrates. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi Usain Bolt is set to race in Aust... More »
Britain Athletics – Team GB – Rio 2016 Endurance Athletes Media Session – Grange Tower Hotel, London – 24/7/16Team GB’s Laura Weightman poses for a photoAction Images via Reuters / Matthew ChildsLivepic Laura Weightman expressed disappointment at British Athle... More »
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike speaks in front of Tokyo 2020 Olympics emblem during an interview with Reuters at Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Tokyo, Japan, October 12, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Tokyo’s governor said on Wednesday that now was the last ... More »
Tyson Gay of USA reacts after his men’s 4 X 100m relay was disqualified in the final at the 2016 Rio Olympics in an August 19, 2016 file photo. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/Files The 15-year-old daughter of U.S. Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay died on Sunday after being ... More »
Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) President Giovanni Malago speaks during the unveiling ceremony of the official logo for the 2024 Olympic bid in Rome, Italy, December 14, 2015. REUTERS/Max Rossi Italy’s Olympic Committee has officially withdrawn its b... More »
2016 Rio Olympics – Opening ceremony – Maracana – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 05/08/2016. Flagbearer Rose Nathike Lokonyen (ROT) of the Refugee Olympic Athletes leads her contingent during the opening ceremony. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov The portraits of all 10 members... More »
By Mary Milliken | RIO DE JANEIRO RIO DE JANEIRO As Italian rifle shooter Niccolo Campriani reveled in his second gold medal in the Olympic Games on Sunday, he paused to express some sadness. For him, the “greatest shooter of the century,” Matt Emmons, had not... More »
By Jack Stubbs | RIO DE JANEIRO RIO DE JANEIRO Russian long jumper Darya Klishina will compete at the Rio Olympics after her ban from the Games was struck down by sport’s highest court on the eve of her event. Russian track and field suffered a final humiliati... More »
By Nick Mulvenney | RIO DE JANEIRO RIO DE JANEIRO South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk ran the fastest single lap in history to win the Olympic 400 meters gold medal in 43.03 seconds and break Michael Johnson’s 17-year-old world record on Sunday. Running an extrao... More »
By Nick Mulvenney | RIO DE JANEIRO RIO DE JANEIRO Wayde van Niekerk’s rivalry with Kirani James and LaShawn Merritt has brought about a new golden age in 400 meters running but the two previous Olympic champions were simply stunned by the South African’s world... More »
By Scott Malone | RIO DE JANEIRO RIO DE JANEIRO American Justin Gatlin felt the full force of the crowd’s ire on Sunday and scowled back in response before finishing second to Usain Bolt in the Olympic 100 meters final and miss out on becoming the oldest man t... More »
By Nick Mulvenney | RIO DE JANEIRO RIO DE JANEIRO Win or lose, Usain Bolt was always going to dominate the Olympic headlines on Sunday but Wayde van Niekerk offered his embattled sport some hope for the future beyond the Jamaican’s retirement with a stunning w... More »
By Steve Keating | RIO DE JANEIRO RIO DE JANEIRO The U.S. men’s basketball team closed out pool play with an unbeaten record but a nervy 100-97 win over France on Sunday confirmed that getting to the top step of the Olympic podium will not be an easy climb. “P... More »
By Joshua Schneyer | RIO DE JANEIRO RIO DE JANEIRO Britain’s Andy Murray beat Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro 7-5 4-6 6-2 7-5 in a compelling Olympic tennis final on Sunday to become the first player to win two men’s singles gold medals. The world number two... More »
By Anthony Boadle | RIO DE JANEIRO RIO DE JANEIRO Forget beach volleyball, soccer or tennis, not to mention the steeplechase or discus. Pokemon Go is challenging the Olympics for most popular game among some young Brazilians. Hundreds of them turned out in a R... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO First time Olympic winners, including Australian teen Kyle Chalmers in the 100 meters freestyle, plundered three of the four golds in the Rio pool on Wednesday but there was no getting past Katie Ledecky. On a night of novelty, with Mireia Belmo... More »
MOSCOW Yelena Isinbayeva is to run for president of the Russian athletics federation (ARAF), the double Olympic pole vault champion said. Isinbayeva, who is unable to compete at the Rio Olympics due to a doping ban on Russia’s athletics team, said on Thursday ... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO A year ago, Mireia Belmonte was injured and unsure whether she would even be able to compete at the Rio Olympics. Now, after a come-from-behind victory in the 200 meters butterfly, the 25-year-old is the first female swimmer to win a gold medal ... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO Freestyle queen Katie Ledecky won her third gold medal of the Rio Olympics by anchoring the U.S. women to victory in the 4×200 metres freestyle relay on Wednesday while struggling Missy Franklin opened her account without being in the water for ... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO Leonidas of Rhodes would recognize a kindred spirit in Michael Phelps of Baltimore. After 2,160 years of history, give or take a decade, the greatest athlete of ancient Greece is no longer alone on his pedestal. The medal machine that is Phelps ... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO Mireia Belmonte won the 200 meters butterfly on Wednesday to become the first Spanish woman to win an Olympic swimming gold medal. The silver medalist in London four years ago went a step better in Rio with a winning time of two minutes, 4.85 se... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO The water in the Olympic diving pool was bright green on Tuesday, baffling at least one competitor who said she could not see her partner underwater, although organizers said that it did not pose any danger to health. The mysterious shade of the... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO Hans Gubler is the man who knows the answers but will never tell, the keeper of secrets as well as time at Rio’s Olympic aquatics center. Gubler is the Omega man, overseeing a ‘nerve-centre’ of timing systems as a privileged insider with access ... More »
TOKYO Voters in the Japanese capital elected their first woman governor on Sunday, after two predecessors stepped down over scandals that clouded the city’s preparations to host the 2020 summer Olympic Games. Yuriko Koike, Japan’s first female defence minister... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO The risk of Zika virus infections at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro is low and has been overcome, health officials in Brazil said on Sunday, five days before South America’s first Games are due to begin. Rio de Janeiro’s health secretary, D... More »
MELBOURNE The Australian government has criticized the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for rejecting a blanket ban on Russian athletes at the Rio de Janeiro Games, saying their participation risks damaging the reputation of the Olympic movement. The IOC ... More »
BERLIN When record Olympic champion Michael Phelps and the king of sprinting Usain Bolt resume their hunt for world records and gold medals at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics next month they will not be the only big stories in town. A team of refugees, hand-picked... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO The judge overseeing the probe that led to the arrest last week of suspected Islamist militants in Brazil said Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. co-operated with investigators by providing information about the suspects’ use of both social networks... More »
BANGKOK World number four Ratchanok Intanon has been cleared of an anti-doping violation, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) said in a statement on Monday, paving the way for the Thai medal hope to compete at the Rio Olympics. Ratchanok had been given a prov... More »
LONDON She was once the ponytailed Romanian teenager excited at the thought of owning colored socks and eating bubble gum yet Nadia Comaneci went on to captivate the world by performing an Olympic feat that continues to stir the emotions four decades later. Th... More »
MELBOURNE World number one Jason Day has hit back at critics of the golfers who have elected to skip the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Golf’s return to the Olympics for the first time since 1904 has been soured by the withdrawals of a number of top men’s players, m... More »
WELLINGTON World number one Lydia Ko will be New Zealand’s sole entrant in the women’s golf tournament at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, with Danny Lee and Ryan Fox taking the two men’s spots. Ko is one of New Zealand’s top medal prospects in Rio, having taken t... More »
RIYADH The Saudi Olympic Committee has approved four female Saudi athletes to compete as part of the conservative Gulf kingdom’s team at the Rio Olympics, a spokesman said on Sunday. Sara Al-Attar, Lubna Al-Omair, Cariman Abu Al-Jadail and Wujud Fahmi will bec... More »
BENGALURU, India Adapting quickly to playing conditions at the Rio Olympics will pose the biggest challenge for players, says India’s Saina Nehwal, who is aiming to better the badminton bronze she won in London four years ago. After fighting her way back to fi... More »
NAIROBI Kenya is investigating newspaper allegations that doctors from the country supplied prohibited performance enhancing drugs to British athletes, a government minister said on Tuesday. Undercover footage taken by the Sunday Times showed two Kenyan doctor... More »
TROON, Scotland Rory McIlroy had never played Royal Troon before he came to town last Thursday to get ready for the 145th British Open and after his practice round on Tuesday, you could not blame him if he never played it again. Specifically, he might not want... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO A man has been arrested for trying to extinguish the Olympic torch by throwing a bucket of water over it as it passed through his farming town of Maracaju in central Brazil, an officer at the local police station said on Monday. Police arrested ... More »
OMAHA, Nebraska After the cut-throat competition of the U.S. Olympic Trials, the Rio Games will be a swim in the park, Michael Phelps said on Saturday as the most decorated Olympian of all time prepared for his final races in the United States. A reflective, r... More »
LONDON Britain’s Anthony Joshua put on a devastating display to retain his IBF heavyweight crown with a seventh round knockout of American Dominic Breazeale at London’s O2 Arena on Saturday. Unbeaten Joshua dominated from the start but the 30-year-old Breazeal... More »
OMAHA, Nebraska Missy Franklin was selected this week in the Harlem Globetrotters’ 10th annual celebrity player draft, yet she comes into the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials that begin on Sunday as anything but a slam dunk for Rio Games gold. With a resume that inclu... More »
ATLANTA A 1992 Olympic gold medal stolen from champion canoeist Joe Jacobi’s car earlier this month in Atlanta was found by a 6-year-old girl and returned to him, he said on Monday. The girl spotted the medal in a wooded area while on a walk with her family on... More »
LONDON Usain Bolt will fine-tune his preparations for the Rio Olympics by competing at the Anniversary Games in London on July 22. Organizers of the event, staged at the stadium where Bolt won double sprint gold and the 4x100m relay in 2012, said the Jamaican ... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil’s Health Minister Ricardo Barros said on Friday there is no scientific basis for postponing the Olympics because of the Zika virus, explaining that lower temperatures and fewer mosquitoes reduced the chance of infection in August when the... More »
GENEVA/NEW YORK With debate growing over the safety of holding the Olympics in Brazil amid the ongoing Zika virus outbreak, the World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee on Zika will meet in the coming weeks to evaluate the risks tied to going on with th... More »
NEW YORK World Health Organization officials on Friday cautioned that “many thousands” of infants infected with Zika virus could suffer neurological abnormalities and said nations dealing with an outbreak need to watch for problems beyond the widely reported c... More »
BOSTON Comcast Corp’s NBCUniversal unit will air live over 6,000 hours of competition on TVs and mobile devices from the Rio Olympic Games and offer viewers up-to-the-minute technology to search and personalize content, Chief Executive Officer Brian Roberts sa... More »
