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Iowa State discontinues troubled women's gymnastics program
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (307+ words) AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State is ending its women's gymnastics program. The decision, announced by athletic director Jamie Pollard on Tuesday, comes not long after the school canceled the remainder of its 2026 season because of what Pollard described as "unresolvable" issues…...
Which U.S. Olympians have won the most gold medals?
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (665+ words) The Olympics have long served as a stage for some of the world's most awe-inspiring athletic feats. It has turned standout competitors into household names. In the Winter Olympics, speedskaters Bonnie Blair and Eric Heiden are the U.S. athletes with the…...
What is the IOC? Inside the Olympic organization
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (461+ words) The International Olympic Committee began in 1894 as the brainchild of Pierre de Coubertin, widely considered the father of the modern Olympics. Demetrios Vikelas, who co-founded the modern Games in his homeland of Greece, became the committee's first president. Most familiarly…...
Who has won the most gold medals at the Olympics?
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (539+ words) Michael Phelps has amassed the most gold medals for an individual competitor (male or female) in modern day Olympics history. Italian short track skater Arianna Fontana has won 11 total medals and will look for her third gold at the 2026 Winter…...
U.S.-Romania Olympic gymnastics medal dispute back to court
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (251+ words) LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- A gymnastics medal disputed by the United States and Romania at the 2024 Paris Olympics is heading for a fresh legal review in a Swiss court. Switzerland's federal court said on Thursday its judges sent the "highly exceptional circumstances…...
IOC doesn't act on U.S. request for Katie Uhlaender Olympic skeleton spot
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (413+ words) Katie Uhlaender's hopes of making the women's skeleton field for next month's Milan Cortina Games have been thwarted again, after U.S. officials said Monday that the International Olympic Committee didn't take action on their request for her to receive a discretionary…...
Ota Zaremba, 1980 Olympic weightlifting champion, dies at 68
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (377+ words) PRAGUE -- Ota Zaremba, who won a weightlifting gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics before admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs under a secret program run by the totalitarian regime in the former Czechoslovakia, has died. He was 68. The Czech Weightlifting Federation…...
Gabriella Papadakis says she lost NBC Olympic job over book
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (480+ words) PARIS -- Olympic ice dance champion Gabriella Papadakis said she lost her commentary role with NBC at the upcoming Winter Olympics because of her former skating partner's response to revelations in her new book. In an interview with sports daily L'quipe…...
Olympian accuses ex-partner of smear campaign
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (397+ words) PARIS -- Olympic ice dance champion Guillaume Cizeron said Tuesday that his former on-ice partner Gabriella Papadakis is spreading lies about him in the lead-up to the Milan Cortina Winter Games. The French skater, who now competes with Laurence Fournier Beaudry,…...
U.S. gymnast, Nebraska coach Hartung, 65, dies
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (205+ words) LINCOLN, Neb. -- Jim Hartung, a two-time Olympian who helped lead the 1984 U.S. team to its first and only gold medal in men's gymnastics, has died. He was 65. The University of Nebraska announced Hartung died Saturday night. He had been a Cornhuskers…...