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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Basketball debuted as a medal sport for men at the 1936 Olympics, and women's basketball was later added in 1976. During that time, one nation has dominated the sport, but many different players have ...

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 ...

For the men's competition, Hungary and Great Britain share the record for most gold medals with three each. Hungary also has a silver and bronze medal. The gold medals for Hungary came in the 1952, ...

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 ...

In a Winter Olympics first, but similar to its coverage of the Tokyo Olympics, NBCU will provide unprecedented full-day coverage of the Opening Ceremony on Friday. Feb. 4, on NBC and Peacock. The day ...