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On April 17, 2024, exactly 100 days ahead of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, Nielsen’s Gracenote released its latest Virtual Medal Table (VMT) forecast for the 2024 Games. Considering available results data from key global and continental competitions since the 2021 Summer Games, Gracenote has projected gold, silver and bronze medal counts for participating countries […]
An American track and field legend has recently come forward and raised a toast to herself. The Olympic champ gave herself and her followers online a boost amid Black History Month. Interestingly, the 3x Olympic medalist is also the former fastest woman alive. America’s Favorite Video Today Carmelita Jeter, 44, held the . . .
Clive Charles: “If the performance is good, the result will take care of itself. If you worry about the result too much, you can sometimes forget about the performance.” (Photo courtesy of the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame) Since February is Black History Month, FrontRowSoccer.com will post one story a day about soccer players of […]
ORLANDO, Florida — An Olympic Trials with the fastest collection of American women in history was won by a runner who had never before raced a marathon. Fiona O’Keeffe became the first woman to win the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in her debut at the distance on Saturday. O’Keeffe, 25, pulled away from the lead […]
ORLANDO, Fla. — Fiona O’Keeffe smashed the women’s U.S. Olympic marathon trials record in her debut at the distance on a warm Saturday to secure her spot in the Paris Games. O’Keeffe finished in a time of 2 hours, 22 minutes, 10 seconds to break the American marathon trials mark of 2:25:38 set by Shalane […]
Members of the U.S. Olympic figure skating team learned late Monday they will receive gold medals now that Russian skater Kamila Valieva has been disqualified for doping at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee received word that the IOC would award the gold to the U.S. for the team […]
In back-to-back matches, the U.S.’ most recent Olympic and world champions in taekwondo were eliminated from Paris Olympic team contention on Friday. At the Olympic Trials in Charlotte, Kristina Teachout prevailed over Anastasija Zolotic, who in Tokyo became the second American, and first American woman, to win Olympic taekwondo gold. Teachout, 18, rallied after losing […]
Sunny Choi won the Pan American Games to become the first American woman to qualify for breaking’s Olympic debut in Paris. In January, the 34-year-old Choi quit her job as director of global creative operations at skincare and makeup company Estee Lauder to focus on breaking full-time. She placed 17th at the world championships in […]
Piper Kelly and Samuel Watson won the speed climbing events at the Pan American Games to become the third and fourth American climbers to clinch a 2024 Olympic spot. Kelly, a 24-year-old from Indianapolis, earned her spot when she beat 17-year-old countrywoman Sophia Curcio in Saturday’s semifinals in Santiago, Chile. In each climbing event at […]