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Gymnastics great Mary Lou Retton facing DUI charge
Gymnastics great Mary Lou Retton was arrested earlier this month on a misdemeanor DUI charge in West Virginia.,Court records confirm that the 1984 Olympic all-around gold medalist was charged on May 17 in Fairmont, W.Va.,Officers observed a container of wine in the vehicle and said Retton slurred he...
Jordan Chiles turns to Swiss supreme court in bronze medal case
Jordan Chiles is appealing to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland in her quest to overturn the ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that stripped her of a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics.,Chiles' appeal is backed by both USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Commit...
USA Gymnastics taking Jordan Chiles appeal to Swiss supreme court
USA Gymnastics will appeal to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland after the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected their request Monday to reconsider the case of Jordan Chiles' Olympic bronze medal.,Chiles won the bronze in women's floor exercise at the Paris Olympics when her coach submitted ...
Gold-medal gymnast Jordan Chiles returning to UCLA
Olympic gold medalist and two-time NCAA national champion gymnast Jordan Chiles is returning to UCLA.,Chiles made the announcement Thursday in an appearance on NBC's "Today" show.,"You all have been waiting for it -- I am returning back to UCLA to represent the Bruins for my two remaining years of c...
Simone Biles on Olympics: 'I'm pretty proud of myself'
Simone Biles is the world's most decorated gymnast, but that did not stop her from producing uncharacteristic errors during her final two performances at the Paris Olympics on Monday, reminding her vast fan base that she, too, is human.,On a self-described "redemption tour," Biles strived to return ...
Brazil's Rebeca Andrade beats Simone Biles for gold in floor exercise
PARIS -- Simone Biles finished .033 behind Brazil's Rebeca Andrade, who claimed the gold medal in the floor exercise at the Paris Olympics on Monday.,Biles won gold medals in the vault and all-around with Team USA in her rebound from the Tokyo 2020 Games and ran her career total to 11 medals with a ...
China's Zou Jingyuan defends gold in parallel bars
PARIS -- China's Zou Jingyouan handily beat his rivals to retain the Olympic parallel bars title on Monday, picking up his third medal of the Paris Games and giving his country a second gold in gymnastics.,The 26-year-old, nicknamed 'king of parallel bars' for his dominance on the apparatus, earned ...
Algeria's Kaylia Nemour wins gold on bars; Suni Lee takes bronze
PARIS -- Algeria's Kaylia Nemour became the first African gymnast to win an Olympic medal when she secured the gold with a breathtaking routine on the uneven bars at the Paris Games on Sunday that wowed the crowd in Bercy Arena.,The 17-year-old's fast-paced routine featuring a number of complex rele...
Japan's Shinnosuke Oka wins gold in tense gymnastics all-around
PARIS -- Japan's Shinnosuke Oka displayed nerves of steel to capitalize on early errors by top contenders and fended off a late challenge by China's Zhang Boheng to win the men's all-around gold medal at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday.,Zhang trailed by just 0.233 of a point to take silver and his c...
Simone Biles shakes off ankle pain, qualifies first for Olympics all-around
PARIS -- Simone Biles experienced pain in her left calf on the first day of the women's gymnastics competition at the Paris Olympics on Sunday but the American never considered aborting any of her four apparatus routines, her coaches said.,Biles, a four-time Olympic gold medalist competing in her th...
Simone Biles submits original skill for Olympics uneven bars
PARIS -- Simone Biles submitted an original skill on uneven bars ahead of the Paris Olympics, which would become the American's sixth signature move and first on bars if she can successfully complete it.,The new skill is a clear hip circle forward with 1.5 turns to handstand, a variation of an eleme...
Simone Biles Olympics-bound for 3rd time after winning team trials
Simone Biles will be headed to the Olympics for the third time after posting an all-around score of 117.225 in Minneapolis at the U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials, which concluded on Sunday night. ,Biles came on the scene at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, collecting four gold medals and a bronze. She ...
Frederick Richard prevails at gymnastics trials, named to Olympic team
Frederick Richard finished with an all-around score of 170.500 as gymnastics team trials for the U.S. Men's Olympic Team wrapped up on Saturday in Minneapolis. ,Richard will be heading to the Olympics for the first time. Asher Hong, Paul Juda, Brody Malone and Stephen Nedoroscik will be joining him ...
Simone Biles leads U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials
Simone Biles landed a Yurchenko double pike vault on Friday and leaped to first place in the all-around standings after the opening day of women's action at the U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials in Minneapolis.,However, the overall health of the U.S. women's gymnastics roster became the bigger story on...
Frederick Richard on top at U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials
Rising University of Michigan junior Frederick Richard holds the all-around lead after the opening night of the U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials on Thursday in Minneapolis.,Richard, the reigning world championship all-around bronze medalist, posted the day's best scores on the floor exercise and high ...
AEW's Sting sendoff was perfect in so many ways
Darby Allin crashed some 20 feet through a plate of glass onto the floor, spent a good five to 10 minutes having ringside medical staff picking shards out of his back, leaving Sting to perform his last-ever comeback and win, and it might have only been the third or fourth best match on the card for ...
Looks like the new 'Steroid Olympics' are actually going to happen
There’s good news for steroid fans: juicers will finally get their day on the field. A who’s who of extremely online investors pitched in to fund a series of events called the Enhanced Games, which describes itself as “the 21st Century Olympics without drug testing.” The list includes Christian Ange...
Novak Djokovic was the boulder, Taylor Fritz was Sisyphus
It has to be hard enough to work through the mental gymnastics it takes to take the court against Novak Djokovic, convinced you can win. That’s what professional athletes do, of course, it’s part of the job. But they’re also still human, and it gets hard to shut out the list that makes Djokovic the ...
NCAA-ESPN's new broadcast deal is great for women's sports
The NCAA and ESPN agreed to an eight-year, $115 million annual deal to broadcast 40 different championships including the women’s college basketball tournament....
Lexi Thompson’s PGA Tour debut comes with a chance at history and to pierce through golf’s sexism
In the modern history of golf, no female has made a cut on a PGA Tour event. Only Babe Didrikson Zaharias has done it ever, playing all four rounds at the 1945 Phoenix Open, and Tucson Open. And as Lexi Thompson becomes the seventh woman to play in a PGA Tour event next week, on a sponsor’s invitati...