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For those who have competed — or nearly competed — under the Olympic rings, the fear of missing out the next time the Games beckon is real. Regardless of the venue. Regardless of the sport.
Last year’s U.S. 1,500-meter champion Jonah Koech’s title was stripped and he received a three-year ban for blood doping, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency announced Monday.
The veteran defensive back leads Canada’s national women’s team into the 2026 world championship. Not only will the Canadians chase a gold medal but also a berth into the 2028 Los Angeles Games, where flag football makes its Olympic debut.
Ten track-and-field athletes with the best performances at next week’s European championships will each receive a bonus of 50,000 euros ($58,000), the continent’s governing body for athletics has confirmed.
Get ready to see plenty more of the flag-pulling, fast-paced game of football that was all over television screens last month.
Lorena Wiebes again sprinted to victory in the second stage of the Women’s Tour de France on Sunday.
Kyle Reyes and Coralie Godbout added a pair of judo medals to Canada’s tally Sunday at the Commonwealth Games.
Olympic wrestler Amarveer Dhesi has been suspended for two years for an anti-doping rule violation, Sport Integrity Canada announced Thursday.
Retired Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci is back in Montreal to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Summer Games, where she became the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 in Olympic competition.
The federal and provincial governments are equally splitting a $52-million contribution to the renewal of the speedskating facility built for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
Noah Lyles pulled up halfway through the 200-meter final at U.S. track championships Sunday, suffering a rare loss in his best race and allowing USC’s Garrett Kaalund to take the title.
Remco Evenepoel held off Tadej Pogacar and his teammate Isaac Del Toro to win the 15th stage of the Tour de France, while Pogacar kept his commanding overall lead and saw his main rival Jonas Vingegaard crash out of the race.
Mark Daigneault, J.B. Bickerstaff and Mark Few were formally named assistant coaches to serve on Miami coach Erik Spoelstra’s staff for the 2027 Basketball World Cup in Qatar and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, those nominations getting approved by USA Basketball’s Board of Directors on Thursday.
The America gymnastics star announced she is returning to the sport on Tuesday, about two years out from the Los Angeles Games.
Fifty years later, key players in the Olympic movement say the first Games on Canadian soil had a lasting impact on Quebec’s sporting culture that went far beyond those negative headlines.
When Matthew Smith took his five-year-old son to a World Cup game in the Los Angeles area earlier this month, they opted to take public transit instead of driving from their nearby coastal city. It was Smith’s first time on the LA Metro in a decade, and the experience exceeded his expectations.
The FIFA World Cup is an early test run of sorts for the 2028 Olympics, which organizers have billed as a “no car” Games where there will be no parking for attendees at any of the venues. Spectators will have to rely on transit and shuttles to get to events.
Women’s hockey rosters for the 2030 Olympics in the French Alps are expected to include 25 players, up from 23.
Canada is objecting to the International Olympic Committee loosening its suspension on Russian athletes.
Kylie Masse needed a reset. After a decade of the competitive swimming grind, the decorated Canadian backstroker made the type of life change you don’t normally see from someone hitting their 30s: she moved back in with her parents.
The Kremlin has welcomed as an “important step” the International Olympic Committee’s decision to remove many of its restrictions on Russia, a big step closer to letting it field a full team when Los Angeles hosts the 2028 Games.
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