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Churchill Downs abandons $1B renovation due to tariff-fueled uncertainty
A large-scale renovation project at Churchill Downs intended to be unveiled by the 2028 Kentucky Derby has been gated in the paddock due to implemented tariffs and related economic uncertainty.,When and if the nearly $1 billion planned renovations announced only two months ago could resume is depend...

Josh Hoey sets American record in 800m final at indoor championships
Josh Hoey broke his own American indoor record Sunday in the 800 meter, holding off the competition to win his first national championship at the 2025 USATF Indoor Championships in Staten Island, N.Y.,Hoey notched a 1:43.24, giving the 25-year-old a victory over close competitors Brandon Miller and ...

Olympic champs Masai Russell, Grant Holloway add national indoor titles
Hurdlers Masai Russell and Grant Holloway, gold medalists at the Paris Olympics, became U.S. indoor national titlists on Saturday at the 2025 USATF Indoor Championships in Staten Island, N.Y.,Holloway has a winning streak for over a decade in the men's 60-meter hurdles, and he matched his fastest ti...

U.S. women turn in dominant 4x400 relay performance
PARIS -- The United States blazed to the gold medal in the Olympic women's 4x400 meters relay on Saturday, clocking the second-quickest time in history and stretching the country's remarkable victory streak in the event to eight in a row.,Fielding a star-studded foursome featuring Olympic champions ...

U.S. men win 4x400 relay thriller in Olympic-record time
PARIS -- The United States continued its dominance of the Olympic 4x400 meters relay on Saturday as Rai Benjamin held off Botswana's Letsile Tebogo in a thrilling last-leg battle between two individual gold medalists.,The U.S. as expected, dropped Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old who struggled badly i...

Ethiopian Tamirat Tola wins men's marathon in Paris
PARIS -- Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola won gold in the men's marathon at the Olympics on Saturday while Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, who had been bidding for an unprecedented third consecutive Olympic crown, failed to finish.,Belgium's Bashir Abdi took silver, improving on his bronze from Tokyo, and Kenya's Ben...

U.S. men disqualifed in 4x100 relay
PARIS -- Canada won the men's Olympic 4x100m relay on Friday after the favored foursome from the United States messed up a changeover and were disqualified.,Andre de Grasse ran a superb last leg to bring the Tokyo silver medalists home in 37.50 seconds for their second gold in the event following th...

US men DQ'd in 4x100 relay
PARIS -- Canada won the men's Olympic 4x100m relay on Friday after the favored foursome from the United States messed up a changeover and were disqualified.,Andre de Grasse ran a superb last leg to bring the Tokyo silver medalists home in 37.50 seconds for their second gold in the event following th...

Sha'Carri Richardson, US sprints to gold in 4x100 relay
PARIS -- The United States won the gold medal in the Olympic women's 4x100 meters relay on Friday, their 12th title in the event ,after Great Britain botched their final exchange.,The U.S. team of Melissa Jefferson, Twanisha Terry, Paris Olympic 200-meter champion Gabby Thomas and Sha'Carri Richards...

American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone sets WR, claims gold in 400 hurdles
PARIS -- American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone obliterated her own 400 meters hurdles world record with a time of 50.37 seconds to retain her Olympic title on Thursday.,Anna Cockrell of the United States took silver and Dutchwoman Femke Bol claimed bronze.,McLaughlin-Levrone lowered her previous mark o...

American Quincy Hall storms from behind to claim 400-meter gold
Saint-Denis, FRANCE -- Quincy Hall produced an incredible late surge to overtake Great Britain's Matthew Hudson-Smith and take a first Olympic 400-meter gold for the United States since 2008 in another scintillating race on Wednesday.,Hudson-Smith seemed on course to win his country's first gold ove...

Canada revokes track coach Rana Reider's Olympic credential amid new allegations
The Canadian Olympic Committee revoked the Olympic accreditation of personal track coach Rana Reider on Tuesday amid allegations of sexual and emotional abuse.,Reider was in Paris as coach of Canada's Andre de Grasse, Italian Olympian Marcell Jacobs and American Trayvon Bromell. Jacobs won two gold ...
