The mountain biking event consists of one single race for each gender. All riders start at the same time and complete multiple laps though a course full of rough, hilly terrain. The first rider to ...

Swimming at the 2024 Paris Olympics will take place inside Paris La Defense Arena, the largest indoor events venue in Europe. Located just to the northwest of Paris in Nanterre, the domed stadium ...

First, there was the "The Magnificent Seven" in 1996. Then came the "The Fierce Five" in 2012 and "The Final Five " in 2016. Now, it appears to be "The Fighting Four." After a shocking Olympic women's ...

That is neither exaggeration nor hyperbole. This was, perhaps, the sole reason the Tokyo Olympics had to happen. The 400 hurdles is an event of such stamina and difficulty that Young’s 46.78 stood for ...

Murphy claimed bronze just behind a pair of athletes from the Russian Olympic Committee amongst a deep field of contenders, finishing in 52.19. Evgeniy Rylov took gold in 51.98 while Kliment ...

Olympic men's golf champion Xander Schauffele said on Tuesday he is ready to get back to work on the PGA Tour this week in Memphis, Tenn., after the biggest win of his career. Schauffele secured a one ...

At the Olympics, all dives are scored by a panel of judges. The judges rate the execution (and synchronization, for synchro events) of every dive on a scale of 1-10, including half-point margins.

The individual diving events at the Olympics consist of three rounds: preliminary, semifinal and final. The preliminary round trims the field of divers to 18, which is then reduced to 12 after the ...

Those are the best words to describe the performance from the United States women’s gymnastics team during the qualification round at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Led by two Olympic all-around ...

Modern pentathlon tests athletes across five separate disciplines. Athletes must swim, fence, ride an unfamiliar horse through a show jumping course — they get just 20 minutes to get acquainted — and ...

The advent of table tennis supposedly dates back to the late 1800s, when the wealthy Victorians in England created an indoor version of lawn tennis using items laying around the house to assemble a ...

With her final swim of the 2024 Paris Olympics, Katie Ledecky draped herself in one of the most significant gold medals in the history of the Olympics. Ledecky won the women’s 800m freestyle, ...