Every Olympic Games brings together the best athletes from around the world. At the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, about 2,900 athletes are competing across 116 events. Only a small group will ...

The IOC has made strides toward gender equality, but many of the competition formats aren't there yet. Some think that's just fine.

TOKYO (AP) — Swimming is nothing if not orderly. Get ready for a little chaos. Here comes the 4×100-meter mixed medley relay making its Olympic debut in Tokyo on Saturday: Two men and two women per ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics are facing some criticism over conditions that bring "more risk," but there's not much they can do.

New research on heart rate variability suggests that composure isn’t a personality trait. It’s a physiological skill the nervous system can train—one that may determine who thrives when the stakes are ...

Competitions at the Winter Olympics are defined by extremes: extreme air, extreme speed and extreme temperatures. On sliding tracks, athletes in luge, bobsleigh and skeleton break highway speed limits ...

Lindsey Vonn crashed and injured her left knee on Friday in her final downhill race before the Winter Olympics, but said she still hopes to recover in time for the ...

The Olympic dress code has been called into question recently, after a Ukrainian skeleton athlete was banned from wearing his helmet for races.

Twenty years ago this week, a precocious 8-year-old from Bethesda finished 28th out of 36 entrants in the 10-and-under girls’ 50-yard freestyle at the Tom Dolan Invitational, the biggest meet to that ...

Among the most important things an athlete can do is set goals, and with these goals come standards. Proper training, sleep, and nutrition are vital necessities for success in any sport. But balancing ...

Win or lose, Jessie Diggins plans to celebrate her last Olympics. More than 40 friends and family are traveling to the Milan Cortina Winter Games to watch America’s most decorated cross-country skier ...