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An Olympic gold medalist is selling her $1.2 million mansion after her dreams of finding success in Louisiana faltered and she is forced to move back to Las Vegas amid a divorce from her longtime husband. Oksana Baiul, who represented Ukraine at the 1994 Winter Olympics in figure skating, said her “heart is broken” as she listed her Shreveport estate …

“They’re Building 400 Horsepower Hydrogen Engines”: Toyota Revolutionizes Combustion While Critics Attack Olympic Hydrogen Push  Energy Reporters Source link

It’s usually not until December or January and after a series of tumbles, twisted knees, torn ACLs and worse that the debate over safety in World Cup skiing becomes an annual topic. Not this season. The death of Italian skier Matteo Franzoso this week following a crash in preseason training in Chile has resurfaced concerns over how to limit risks …

Sprinter Fred Kerley has been announced as the first American male athlete to join the Enhanced Games, the competition which allows performance-enhancing drugs. The 100meter competitor is not competing at the ongoing World Athletics Championships after missing the United States trials, a few weeks before he was then provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for an anti-doping whereabouts …

SUPPORT STAFF NAMED Additional support staff named today for the 2026 U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team includes team services manager Brij Singh (Los Altos, Calif./Boston Bruins);  equipment managers Chris “Frosty” Scoppetto (Hamden, Conn./New Jersey Devils) and Teddy Richards (Wilkes-Barre, Pa./Florida Panthers); athletic trainers John Worley (Ridley Park, Pa./Minnesota Wild), Travis Green (St. Paul, Minn./Minnesota Wild) and Kevin Morley (Newington, Conn./Nashville Predators); team physician Dr. Joel  Boyd (St. Paul, Minn./Minnesota Wild); and media officers Dave Fischer (Colorado Springs, …

TOKYO (AP) — Olympic champion Cole Hocker was disqualified from the semifinals of the 1,500 meters at world championships Monday after judges ruled he jostled other runners while making a late move on the inside. Hocker was running near the inside edge of the track when he got boxed in and turned semi-sideways to squeeze past Germany’s Robert Farken. Hocker …

USA’s Olympic 1500m champion Cole Hocker was disqualified from his semi-final at the world championships on Monday after he barged his way through a crowd on the home straight. Hocker was boxed in on the inside with nowhere to go – just as he had been in the Olympic final a year ago. He saw a sliver of a gap …

GENEVA (AP) — Two-time Olympic finalist Erriyon Knighton was banned for four years on Friday in a doping case that ruled the 21-year-old United States sprinter out of the 2028 Los Angeles Games. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said its judges upheld separate appeals by the World Anti-Doping Agency and track and field investigators, who filed after Knighton was …

Olympic champion boxer Imane Khelif is challenging the global boxing federation’s decision to mandate gender testing to determine the eligibility of male and female boxers. In May, World Boxing said Khelif, an Algerian boxer, would be banned from all World Boxing competitions until she underwent the mandatory test. The decision to mandate testing came in part due to the controversy …

SEATTLE (AP) — Two firefighters who were part of a 44-person crew fighting a wildland blaze on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula were taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents during a multiagency criminal investigation into the two contractors they worked for, federal authorities said Thursday. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management asked the Border Patrol to help check the …