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

Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo are the hosts of the 2026 Winter Olympics. Milan is Italy’s second most populated city and is considered the economic capital of the country. Milan will host multiple ...

The United States leads the way with 50 gold medals, the most of any country in Olympic boxing history. The only country that comes close to that total is Cuba, which currently has 41 gold medals. How ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Olympic gymnastics, the score for an athlete is based on two different components; the Execution Score and Difficulty Score. Each Execution Score starts at 10.0 points. The judges on the execution ...

Each swimming event is broken up into rounds with the purpose of trimming the field of competitors (which can sometimes number upwards of 90+ for individual events) down to a final race of eight.

Friedrich drove German two- and four-man bobsleds to gold medals, with Margis in the sled in both events. Together (and with two more pushers in the four-man), they clocked the fastest runs in three ...

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 ...

The center of the medal takes the shape of a hexagon, a reference to the country’s shape and nickname, l’hexagone. This piece of the medal contains fragments of iron that were removed from the Eiffel ...