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1896 Olympic Games

TSX REPORT: Athens 1896 winner’s medal sells for $111,960; Infantino asks for match forfeits for racism; 95th World Cup win for Shiffrin!

1976 Olympic Games

TSX REPORT: Shiffrin skis to fifth straight World Cup win; Ukraine points to bombed arena to keep Russia suspended; big-time T&F returning to L.A.?

5-Ring Circus

HIGHLIGHTS: Shiffrin on the podium again; Kipchoge (2:02:40) and Kosgei (2:16:02) sensational in Tokyo Marathon wins; Nilsen clears record 19-10 1/4!

5-Ring Circus

BEIJING 2022/Wednesday Review & Preview: Jacobellis scores sensational snowcross win; NBC ratings recede; Shiffrin skies out again

5-Ring Circus

BEIJING 2022/Tuesday Review & Preview: Cochran-Siegle and Diggins claim U.S. medals; Chen supreme in Short Program; S.F.’s Gu wins Big Air for China

5-Ring Circus

BEIJING 2022/Monday Review & Preview: Bach meets with Peng Shuai; Wust wins gold in fifth straight Games; FINA adds “extra” World Champs in June!

5-Ring Circus

BEIJING 2022/Saturday Review & Preview: Ceremonies director explains small flame; Dutch reporter hassled on-air; Johaug takes first OWG gold

Alpine Skiing

HIGHLIGHTS: Djokovic saga ends; D’Amato takes U.S. marathon record; Meyers Taylor wins two-woman and Monobob season titles

2020 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: Shiffrin second at Courchevel, but has World Cup lead; NHL officially out of Beijing; Mod Pent’s Olympic issues not due to riding?!

Alpine Skiing

HIGHLIGHTS: Astounding 1,085-pound world weightlifting record for Talakhadze; Haughey sets world mark in Short-Course Worlds; U.S. men edge BIH, 1-0

Alpine Skiing

HIGHLIGHTS: Two bobsled World Cup wins for new citizen Humphries; Ledecky in amazing form at U.S. Open; third World Cup skating win for Erin...

Alpine Skiing

HIGHLIGHTS: Shiffrin wins Killington Slalom; Murphy sets U.S. 50 m Back record in ISL playoffs; U.S. women win at Australia, 3-0

Alpine Skiing

HIGHLIGHTS: Two silvers for Shiffrin as Vlhova & Pinturault win Alpine World Cup; Chloe Kim wins World Cup Halfpipe; world 20 km Walk record

2020 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: Tokyo 2020 foreign-fan decision tomorrow? Paris 2024 to offer event ‘carbon calculator’; FIFA sees $4.7 billion revenue (!) for 2022

2020 Olympic Games

HIGHLIGHTS: Ledecky wins four in Tyr Pro Swim; Shiffrin slaloms to 69th World Cup win; U.S. wrestlers win six in Rome

Alpine Skiing

HIGHLIGHTS: Humphries & Jones win women’s World Bobsled title; Kessler gets prep mike mark; U.S.’s Kai Owens, 16, wins Dual Moguls World Cup

2020 Olympic Games

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Florida offers itself as Tokyo replacement (?); new USOPC Board opening; USA Swimming splits Trials in two

Alpine Skiing

HIGHLIGHTS: World Indoor shot record for Ryan Crouser; Chloe Kim and Jamie Anderson score Snowboard golds, two skating wins for Brittany Bowe!

Alpine Skiing

HIGHLIGHTS: Ledecky leads U.S. swimmers as 12 new world-leading marks set in Des Moines; U.S. women edge Spain, 1-0

Alpine Skiing

HIGHLIGHTS: Shiffrin dominates in Bulgaria; Chen storms to fourth straight U.S. figure skating title

Alpine Skiing

HIGHLIGHTS: Amazing Shiffrin scores gold and bronze in World Cup in Vermont

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5-Ring Circus

PANORAMA: Int’l Testing Agency did 44,400+ tests in 2025, saw 532 positives; tragic father-son doping incident; Cal gets $26M endowment for swimming!

United States Olympic Committee

SAFESPORT: Annual report for 2024 shows Center for SafeSport made an actual violations decision on just 11.7% of all cases, all-time

Aquatics

TRANSGENDER: U.S. Education Dept. announces agreement with Penn, with records removed and no transgenders allowed on women’s teams

2028 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: An Olympic city is at war, with Los Angeles fighting against itself, and now with Washington, D.C.

1984 Olympic Games

MEMORABILIA: Paris gold and torch offered together, three Louganis medals available among 67 Olympic medals up for bid from RR Auction