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Logan Edra, better known as Logistx, recently won the Red Bull BC One B-Girl World Championship. But she’s just getting started – she’s training for the 2024 Paris Olympics, where she wants to compete in the first-ever Olympic breakdancing events. Edra says it’s an exciting time for the sport, also referred to as breaking – with a growing number of women...

Sen. Tom Cotton said on Thursday that he is calling for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in China.

For men’s health awareness month, Olympians weigh in on how they are coping with mental health struggles after an unprecedented Olympic offseason due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Winter Games in Beijing are just 100 days away. Bruce Beck reports.

We caught up with Olympic recordholder Usain Bolt about what he’s been up to since retiring from competition – and which superheroes he thinks he could beat in a race. Bolt has been enjoying time with family and working on some songs.

Three activists protesting human rights abuses in China have sneaked into the archaeological site where the flame lighting ceremony for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is being held and ran toward the Temple of Hera holding a Tibetan flag and a banner that read “No genocide games.”

Dawn Staley, USA Women’s Olympic Basketball Coach, received the key to West Columbia, South Carolina, on Monday.

The 24-year-old Ledecky said she looks forward to working with Nesty’s “outstanding mid-distance and distance training group.”

Sarah Klein was first abused by Larry Nassar in 1988 when she was just 8 years old. Today she is a pillar of support for the younger victims of the USA Gymnastics doctor’s abuse. They include Olympians Simone Biles and McKayla Maroney, who testified before the U.S. Senate on Wednesday about failures by the Department of Justice and FBI to...

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Olympic silver medalist Andrew Capobianco went back to his home town in Long Island to visit an athletic center he once worked at. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

In honor of the Tokyo Games, which ended on Sunday, astronauts aboard the ISS competed in everything from synchronized floating to no-gravity gymnastics.

During the Tokyo 2020 Closing Ceremony on Sunday, protesters gathered outside the stadium denouncing the Olympics.

In an Olympic Games closed off to fans, athletes have used TikTok to provide a glimpse at life in the Olympic Village. From dining hall reviews to videos testing out the infamous cardboard beds to videos from training in the arenas, many athletes have gone viral on the popular social media app throughout the Games, connecting fans directly to the...

After strong performances at the Tokyo Olympics, these five young U.S. Olympians could become stars at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

Canadian diver Pamela Ware couldn’t overcome a misstep on her most difficult dive of the night. And, unfortunately for Ware, that most difficult dive of the night — the one that caused her to misstep — was her last effort in the qualifying round of the women’s 3m springboard event earlier this week in Tokyo. Apparently it was a lasting…

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Ryan Crouser revealed his grandfather, who introduced him to the sport, passed away the day before Crouser left for Tokyo.  Crouser, from Oregon, called his grandfather ”my biggest fan and biggest supporter” “He got to see Olympic gold in 2016 and got to see the world record. And I know it felt like he was there…

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Ryan Crouser revealed his grandfather, who introduced him to the sport, passed away the day before Crouser left for Tokyo.  Crouser, from Oregon, called his grandfather ”my biggest fan and biggest supporter” “He got to see Olympic gold in 2016 and got to see the world record. And I know it felt like he was there…

Weightlifting had a rare moment in the Olympic spotlight at the Tokyo Games. It may not get another. When Laurel Hubbard made history as the first transgender female weightlifter at the Olympics, the sport found itself at the forefront of social change. After her competition ended with three failed lifts, Hubbard praised the “extraordinarily supportive” International Weightlifting Federation for its inclusivity....

Weeks after encouraging his supporters to boo the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team at the Tokyo Olympics, Donald Trump now says “Leftist Maniacs” cost the team a gold medal — in the process falsely repeating a debunked allegation about their behavior during the Games. “If our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn’t woke, they would...