Olympics

USA Gymnastics has found its next leader, announcing MLS executive Kyle Albrecht will take over as president and CEO at the start of the year.

The IOC is “moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women’s sport” and is also “looking at prohibiting athletes with DSD (differences of sex development) from women’s events given testosterone advantages,” according to Rob Harris of SKY NEWS. The news follows a presentation last week ...

Reprising a strategy it used in the lead-up to the last Olympics, NBCUniversal is pairing athletes and celebrities in advance of Milan Cortina.

A survey published Tuesday stated that a “large majority of Germans are keen to see their country host the Olympic Games again,” according to Richard Connor of DEUTSCHE WELLE. In a Forsa poll for the news magazine “Stern,” 72% of Germans “said they would welcome a Summer Olympics and Paralympics in ...

With well more than two years to go until the Games open, LA28 launched its volunteer program on Thursday. Delta will serve as the presenting sponsor of the program, which kicks off with volunteer opportunities as early as this year before the organizing committee reveals details in 2026 on applying...

Flag football has “stepped up its bid to beat a swathe of local sports to retain its Olympics spot” for the 2032 Brisbane Games, according to Nick Wright of the BRISBANE TIMES. Netball, rugby league and surf lifesaving have been “lobbying for inclusion.” However, American Football Australia CEO Wade...

USA Swimming has elected Brent Lang as chair of the organization’s BOD, effective immediately. The BOD unanimously voted to approve Lang’s appointment during its most recent meeting, with the newly elected chair to serve a four-year term through September 2029. In this role, Lang will oversee BOD go...

Three months ahead of the start of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games, USA Bobsled/Skeleton (USABS) has signed a new partnership with Snowflake that makes the well-known cloud data platform the organization’s “official data cloud provider.”

With the Empire State Building lit up red, white and blue and Olympic and Paralympic athletes on the TODAY Show, the now-customary markers of an impending Games signaled the final turn this week to Milan-Cortina. As the movement marked 100 days until the Olympic opening ceremony on Feb. 6, Team USA ...

Athletes who make the U.S. Olympic or Paralympic teams starting next year for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games will be “eligible to receive a $100,000 award when they retire” thanks to the recent record $100M donation to the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Foundation, according to Pells & Whyno of the A...