The United States won six medals at the 2025 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships — more than any other country ...

During the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, track and field events will be held between Thursday, August 1 and Sunday, August 11. Track and field fans living in the U.S.’ Eastern time zone will wake up to ...

With the 2024 Paris Games approaching, Olympic qualifying is now complete and nearly 600 athletes have earned their spots on the U.S. Olympic team. Below is a list of athletes that have qualified to ...

The main objective in wrestling is to pin the opponent, which is achieved by holding his or her shoulder blades to the mat for about a second. A pin, also known as a "fall," automatically ends the ...

A volleyball match begins when the ball is served into play. A team may touch the ball three times – not counting blocks – on its side of the net. The usual pattern is as follows: a dig (underarm pass ...

Alpine snowboarding: A type of snowboarding that involves racing through gates on groomed courses. Parallel giant slalom is the only discipline within Alpine snowboarding that will be staged at the ...

Brazilian surfer Italo Ferreira became the first Olympic gold medalist in surfing, overcoming the early adversity of breaking his board on his first wave to defeat Japan's Kanoa Igarashi on Tuesday in ...

Even then, even with an extra year of waiting, there was zero doubt who the first Olympic champion would be. The only question? By how much. The foregone conclusion: Katie Ledecky. The margin: 4.13 ...

Block: The starting platform; the area from which a swimmer dives into the pool to begin a race. Cap: Latex or lycra head covering used during a race or workout to protect a swimmer's hair from the ...

Each halfpipe run is scored by a team of six judges. After dropping the highest and lowest scores, the four remaining scores are averaged together for each run. All judges score the runs based on ...

In a result two years in the making, 20-year-old Australian Ariarne Titmus dealt Katie Ledecky her first loss in individual Olympic competition Saturday in a marquee 400m freestyle final. Titmus ...

Editor's note: You will notice that this article is numbered. The main intention of the addition of numbers is not to rank these incredible athletes and their accomplishments, but rather to help ...