Olympics
The United States Artistic Swimming Team is making its final push in training as the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics fast-approaches. Artistic swimming, formerly known as synchronized swimming, requires athletes to tap into their best abilities in acrobatics and artistry. As the U.S. Artistic Swimming Team qualified for its first Olympic opportunity since 2008, team members […]
Gabby Douglas is officially back. Whether the gymnastics star’s return to the sport carries all the way to the Paris Olympics remains to be seen. Douglas, who became the first Black woman to win the Olympic all-around title when she triumphed in London in 2012, competed for the first time in eight years on Saturday at the […]
For many years, there was one kind of swim cap. It was ultratight, made of latex or silicone — and it was “one size fits all.” But those swim caps left out large groups of swimmers, adding to structural inequities that often keep people of color out of the pool.
The 2024 Paris Olympics will be a historic one for USA Swimming. Anthony Nesty is set to become the first Black swimming head coach for Team USA in Olympic history. Nesty previously made history in 2022 as the first Black U.S. swimming coach at a world championships. He oversaw . . .
CNN — The United States Figure Skating team will receive a gold medal for their team event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, after Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was handed a four-year ban Monday over a long-running doping controversy. Valieva, now 17, had led the Russian Olympic Committee to first place in the team […]
The year 2024 may have only just begun but it looks set to be an action-packed one. With a number of pivotal political, environmental, cultural and athletic events on the horizon, it can be difficult to keep track of what’s to come. FRANCE 24 sets out a a timeline of a few major events that […]
BURNSVILLE, Minn. — This summer, winter sports star Rebecca Flynn got life-changing news — she was named to the United States Snowboard Pro Slopestyle team. “It was probably one of the most exciting moments of my life. I was not expecting it. My parents were not expecting it. It was crazy,” Flynn said. Flynn’s parents […]
Listen to this article here After many years of wanting to implement new sports, the 2028 Olympics will soon introduce flag football to the global stage. Flag football involves 10 individuals with a 5-on-5 on each side of the field. Unlike football, in flag football, there are no offensive and defensive lineman. The “tackles” are […]
The U.S. men’s volleyball team qualified for the 2024 Paris Games on Saturday, bidding to rebound from a disappointing Olympic result two years ago. The Americans won their first six matches of an eight-team round-robin tournament in Tokyo, clinching one of the two Olympic berths available with one match left Sunday. They go into next […]
As ambassadors of the country where breakdancing originated 50 years ago, members of Team USA have something to prove — and potentially to lose — when the hip-hop dance form makes its official debut at the Paris Games in 2024. That’s because for U.S. breakers like Carmarry Hall, Victor Montalvo and Jeffrey Mike Louis, it’s […]