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The 2028 Summer Games in ... Oklahoma? Olympic events being held outside California
Lisa Riley Roche, Deseret News | Posted April 8 - 6:18 a.m. | Save Story
Los Angeles has made it official — several 2028 Summer Games events will be held in Oklahoma City.
Overall ski champion Brignone breaks leg in crash with home Olympics approaching
Andrew Dampf, Associated Press | Updated April 3 - 12:19 p.m. | Save Story
It was meant to be a celebratory final week of competition in the best season of her career.
US Olympic and Paralympic officials fire coach and director after AP report on sexual abuse
Martha Bellisle, Associated Press | Updated April 2 - 5:59 a.m. | Save Story
The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee has fired a coach and a director after The Associated Press reported that the coach was accused of sexually abusing a young biathlete, causing her so much distress that she attempted suicide.
US-Canada-Mexico joint World Cup goes from unity to acrimony thanks to tariffs and '51st state' talk
Howard Fendrich, Associated Press | Updated April 1 - 7:54 a.m. | Save Story
As the United States prepares to welcome the world for FIFA's Club World Cup this June, golf's Ryder Cup in September, the World Cup next year and the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028, the question becomes: Will the world want to come? And will the world be able to? President Donald Trump's tariff wars with neighbors Canada and Mexico and other countries, as well as other current geopolitical fissures, set a backdrop for the soccer showcase being jointly hosted by the three North American neighbors. But it's hard to know exactly how the organization and coordination, fans' travel plans and more for the 2026 World Cup will be altered.
The US dominated figure skating's world championships. It may face the Russians at the Olympics
Dave Skretta, Associated Press | Posted March 30 - 7:40 a.m. | Save Story
It's hard to imagine a better world championships for the American figure skating team, which captured gold in three of the four disciplines over the weekend for the first time in its history, and will take all of that momentum into an Olympic year.
Luge officials predict 2026 Olympic sliding races will be in Italy, a good sign for Milan-Cortina
Tim Reynolds, Associated Press | Posted March 29 - 2:50 p.m. | Save Story
Next year's Olympic sliding races will be in Italy after all, international luge officials predicted Saturday in another ringing endorsement of the newly rebuilt track in Cortina d'Ampezzo. The International Luge Federation followed its bobsled and skeleton counterpart in declaring the testing of the track that Italy hopes to use at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics a success. That's another sign that the sliding community fully expects the Olympic races to be in the Italian Alps and not at the Plan B site in Lake Placid, New York, next winter.
Reigning champ Ilia Malinin of US leads Japan's Yuma Kagiyama at figure skating world championships
Dave Skretta, Associated Press | Updated March 27 - 8:19 p.m. | Save Story
American figure skating sensation Ilia Malinin sheepishly grinned when his closest rival, Japanese star Yuma Kagiyama, said what seems to be on everyone's minds these days: "I'm starting to think he's invincible."
American figure skater Alysa Liu takes the lead on the opening night of the world championships
Dave Skretta, Associated Press | Updated March 26 - 8:40 p.m. | Save Story
Alysa Liu rarely wavers when it comes to anything, whether it be her abrupt decision to retire after the 2022 Winter Olympics, or the American figure skater's similarly stunning decision to announce her comeback early last year.
Utah Olympic organizer Lindsey Vonn's comeback ski season ends with a medal
Lisa Riley Roche, Deseret News | Posted March 26 - 6:04 p.m. | Save Story
When Lindsey Vonn secured a podium finish at the Sun Valley Super G finals on Sunday, her first since returning to ski racing nearly six years after retiring, she became the oldest woman to medal in a skiing World Cup at 40.
Testing begins at Cortina's controversial Olympic sliding track for bobsled, luge and skeleton
Andrew Dampf, Associated Press | Updated March 26 - 2:34 a.m. | Save Story
When Italian skeleton competitor Mattia Gaspari became the first athlete to test the controversial sliding track for next year's Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, he did so in a sort of tunnel under a temporary roof built of wooden beams and white plastic paper.
With a new international Olympic president, will Russia compete in the next Games?
Lisa Riley Roche, Deseret News | Posted March 25 - 12:11 p.m. | Save Story
Russian President Vladimir Putin was quick to send congratulations to the newly elected leader of the International Olympic Committee, Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe, as Moscow pushes for a full return to the Games.
A new Olympic stadium and a crocodile-inhabited rowing course unveiled in Brisbane 2032 overhaul
John Pye, Associated Press | Updated March 25 - 1:26 a.m. | Save Story
Sailing the Whitsunday islands. Surfing an iconic Gold Coast break. Rowing in a crocodile-inhabited river in Rockhampton.
Shiffrin steadily overcoming PTSD in giant slalom after crash, focus on slalom at World Cup finals
Pat Graham, Associated Press | Posted March 25 - 12:33 a.m. | Save Story
Mikaela Shiffrin's flashbacks to her November crash in the giant slalom are happening less and less when she's training. For her, as she deals with post-traumatic stress disorder in the discipline, that's major progress. While other racers compete in the GS on Tuesday at World Cup finals in Sun Valley, the American standout plans to squeeze in some training in the slalom. It will be Shiffrin's only event of the weeklong finals after not qualifying in giant slalom. The two-time Olympic champion revealed last month that she's suffering from PTSD after falling in the GS on Nov. 30 in Killington, Vermont. In the crash, something punctured her side and caused severe trauma to her oblique muscles.
Newly elected IOC President Kirsty Coventry celebrated on return home to Zimbabwe
Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press | Updated March 23 - 9:47 p.m. | Save Story
Newly elected International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry has arrived in her home country of Zimbabwe to a hero's welcome as her victory is celebrated as a national milestone. The southern African country has faced years of isolation and sanctions by the United States and other Western nations. The 41-year-old Coventry, who is also Zimbabwe's sports minister, was the only female candidate in the IOC presidency race. She became the first woman and first African to be elected head of the global Olympic movement. She told Zimbabweans who had gathered to welcome her Sunday that "we broke down barriers."
US runner Shelby Houlihan earns silver medal in return to big stage after 4-year burrito ban
Eddie Pells, Associated Press | Posted March 23 - 8:57 a.m. | Save Story
American runner Shelby Houlihan returned to the big stage after a much-debated four-year doping ban and won a silver medal in the 3,000 meters at the world indoor championships. The U.S. record holder at 1,500 meters and former record holder in the 5,000 sat out the Paris Olympics because she tested positive after eating a burrito she claimed was tainted with a performance-enhancing drug. The 32-year-old runner said she was flooded with a range of emotions after her second-place finish Saturday, saying it's been a long journey but she's glad she stuck with it.
What the outgoing IOC president says about diversity, climate change and the Olympics
Lisa Riley Roche, Deseret News | Posted March 22 - 10:46 a.m. | Save Story
Outgoing International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach touted the progress made on diversity, climate change and other issues he put front and center during his 12 years as a world sport leader but said there's still much work to be done.
After historic Olympic election comes leadership issues for IOC president Kirsty Coventry
Graham Dunbar, Associated Press | Posted March 21 - 1:54 p.m. | Save Story
After the stunning election win comes the sober business of leading the International Olympic Committee for Kirsty Coventry. The first woman president elected in the IOC's 131-year history began Friday in a breakfast meeting with Thomas Bach in Greece to start their transition. The formal handover is on Olympic Day, June 23. They agreed Coventry will take precedence in major IOC decisions in the next three months. The 41-year-old sports minister of Zimbabwe will soon resign her government position. She plans to move with her family in April to the Olympic home city, Lausanne in Switzerland. Here's a look at some of the issues ahead.
Olympic champions win big with gold medals at freestyle ski and snowboard worlds
The Associated Press | Posted March 21 - 10:46 a.m. | Save Story
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott is among five Olympic gold medalists who won events at the world freestyle skiing and snowboard championships in Switzerland, less than a year out from the Winter Games. It was a busy Friday with eight finals after several events were rescheduled to avoid poor weather forecast for the weekend. New Zealander Sadowski-Synnott added a third world gold medal to the Olympic snowboard slopestyle title she won in Beijing in 2022.
