U.S. President Donald Trump often says the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics are among the events he is most excited about in his second term.

The organizers of the Los Angeles Olympics remain optimistic that Major League Baseball will find a way to join the NFL in sending the world’s best athletes in their respective sports to the 2028 Games.

After all of swimming great Gary Hall Jr.'s Olympic medals were destroyed in the Los Angeles fires he set an unexpected record replacing them at IOC headquarters.

The IOC has signed a $3 billion deal with its long-time United States broadcast partner NBC for the 2034 Salt Lake City Olympics and the 2036 Summer Games.

The deadly wildfires that have ravaged sections of Los Angeles left an indelible imprint on the region's landscape and psyche.

Novak Djokovic says he understands why Jannik Sinner’s lack of a suspension despite two positive drug tests has some tennis players questioning whether there’s a double standard in the sport.

Carlos Alcaraz has cut short a pre-U.S. Open training session after twisting his right ankle but said he isn’t worried that it’ll be a problem for the year’s last Grand Slam tournament.

Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz have been placed on opposite sides of the U.S. Open bracket and could meet in another big final after Wimbledon and the Paris Olympics.

Snoop Dogg brought out Dr. Dre, Billie Eilish and Red Hot Chili Peppers all performed from a California beachside during the handover to the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

Paris has closed out two and a half extraordinary weeks of Olympic sports and emotion with a star-studded show in France’s national stadium.

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The Olympics will always have Paris.

What are gold, silver, and bronze medals really made of?

Oh, and why Olympians bite their medals...

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Noah Lyles lost the Olympic 200 meters, falling to Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, then collapsing on the track and being carted off in a wheelchair.

China is trying to fight fire with fire in the face of persistent doping allegations that have dogged its swimmers at the Paris Olympics.

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Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon opened her bid to win a third straight Olympic 1,500-meter title, turning the page on a drama-filled night that ultimately ended with a medal for her.

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The United States closed out Olympic swimming with a wide range of emotions.

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While some of the biggest names in American swimming have faltered at the Paris Olympics, Torri Huske has claimed a starring role.

Less than an hour after Alex Walsh was denied an Olympic bronze medal for a disqualification in her 200-meter individual medley, younger sister Gretchen helped set a 4x100 mixed medley relay world record with the Americans.

Katie Ledecky has capped another stellar Olympics by becoming only the second swimmer to win the same event at four straight Summer Games, holding off Ariarne Titmus to win the 800-meter freestyle.

Katie Ledecky has capped another stellar Olympics by becoming only the second swimmer to win the same event at four straight Summer Games, holding off Ariarne Titmus to win the 800-meter freestyle.

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Tahiti is hosting the surfing competition for the Paris Olympics and has been a coveted destination for the sport for decades, but it’s only in more recent years that local surf culture and talent begun to develop among younger generations.

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Covered with pins and adornments, Vivianne Robinson is hard to miss in the streets of Paris.

Canada has lost its appeal against the deduction of six competition points following a drone-spying scandal in the Olympic women’s soccer tournament.

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Fashion.

Olympic gymnastics is no longer exclusively the realm of teenagers.

China has won the first gold medal of the Paris Olympics.

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The chief executive of Delta Air Lines expects flight cancellations and delays that resulted from a global technology breakdown last week to be resolved by Thursday.

The United States has won 826 all-time medals in track and field, the most of any country.

French authorities say a police officer has been wounded in a knife attack in Paris in the Champs-Elysees neighborhood.

Luka Doncic and Giannis Antetokounmpo have faced off nine times in their NBA careers, and those games have never disappointed.

Grant Holloway won U.S. track trials in the 110-meter hurdles Friday, finishing in 12.86 second to earn a chance to capture the Olympic title that eluded him in an upset loss three years ago.

Cooper Flagg’s summer will include some time playing against the U.S. Olympic team.

The days of “plausibly live” Olympics coverage on NBC are coming to an end.

Olympic champion Athing Mu’s hopes for a repeat title came crashing down during the first lap of the 800-meter final at U.S. track trials.

Simone Manuel has earned an individual race at the Olympics on the final night of the U.S. swimming trials, winning the 50-meter freestyle.

Caeleb Dressel has locked up his second individual race in Paris, giving him another chance to shine after his stellar performance at the last Olympics.

There is one more item to scratch off the list before everyone from Sha’Carri Richardson to Noah Lyles to Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone embark on their trips to Paris for the Olympics.

Caitlin Clark hopes to play for the U.S. Olympic team one day.

Gymnastics star Simone Biles cruised to a record ninth U.S. Championship, giving good friend Sunisa Lee a boost along the way.

Olympic champion Katie Ledecky says faith in the anti-doping system is at an “all-time low” in the wake of the way global regulators handled a case involving Chinese swimmers.

There’s no making up for what Olympic hurdler Lashinda Demus lost on the day she finished.

French police have evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the Seine River.

Athletes in plenty of sports compete for plenty of cash.

Sunni Lee was one of the top athletes in the world heading into the Summer Olympics in 2021, but almost no one expected her to leave with a gold medal. She did just that.

Suni Lee was one of the top athletes in the world heading into the Summer Olympics in 2021, but almost no one expected her to leave with a gold medal. She did just that.

The biggest moments for many of this generation’s Olympic athletes came in front of mostly empty stands.

A proposed rewrite of the law governing the Olympics in the United States calls on public funding for the embattled U.S. Center for SafeSport while also forming a new government office to oversee grassroots sports that have long been attached to the Olympics themselves.

Can the USWNT rebound from a disappointing performance at 2023 Women's World Cup?

This will definitely be a unique "French touch" for medal winners this summer.

The Summer Olympics in Paris are nearly six months away, but already trials have started in certain sports for American athletes.

American gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton says she is “overwhelmed with all the love and support” she has received and is slowly recovering with family after being hospitalized with a rare form of pneumonia earlier this month.

The family of Olympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton says she is “continuing to fight.”.

The NFL’s ongoing push for worldwide exposure got another boost when organizers for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics delivered a proposal to put flag football on the program when the Summer Games return to the United States for the first time in 32 years.

American cyclist Chloe Dygert's comeback from a career-threatening injury culminated with a world title in the women's time trial on Thursday.

Heavy rains in Paris have led Sunday to cancel a swimming event in the River Seine that was to be a test for next year’s Summer Olympics.

Ralph Boston, the Olympic long jump champion who broke Jesse Owens’ record, has died.

The new leader of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has reiterated the federation’s support for exploring a way for Russian athletes to compete at the Paris Olympics as neutrals.

This weekend and next week will mark a slice of sports history in the United States, one that might be hard to fathom.

Changes are coming at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, sparked by frustration with years of flat revenue and what some portray as heavy-handed management in the wake of sex-abuse scandals that upended the movement in America.

Bottom of the ninth? Pressure. Two free throws to win the game? Pressure. Six-foot putt to win the U.S. Open? Pressure. But there's not pressure like that heaped on Olympic athletes, who carry the expectations of a nation and only get the chance to shrug it off every four years.

The first so-called modern Olympics were held in 1896 in Athens.

Tara Lipinski was a sprightly 15-year-old ballerina-on-ice when she won figure skating gold at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.

The Summer Olympics might be over, but these little kids were inspired by the athletes they saw on TV, and they're now ready to compete in future games.

In what was otherwise a rough two weeks in Tokyo for NBC Universal, viewers perked up a bit in the second week of the games when the U.S. team's performance did the same.

Here’s a breakdown of what certain countries pay athletes when they win a medal in the Summer Olympics, according to Forbes.

With the flame extinguished in Tokyo this past weekend, the torch for the Summer Olympics -- seeing as the Winter Games in Beijing are just six months away -- has been passed to Paris, the host of the 2024 Summer Games.

Baseball's traditional powers — Japan, the United States and the Dominican Republic — took the medals as the sport made a dramatic return to the Olympic program.

Japan secured Olympic baseball gold 11 days after winning the gold medal in softball on the same field in Yokohama.

Olympians themselves are absolutely impressive. Then, throw in the athletes who have medaled more than once. That’s certainly something to write home about.

The United States hasn’t hosted any Olympic Games since 2002, when Salt Lake City welcomed the world to the Winter Olympics, but man, there have certainly been some cities that have tried.

She had the long and colorful nails. She wore the flashy outfits, including a neon, one-legged spandex bodysuit. Above all, she had the iconic nickname “Flo-Jo,” which just sounded fast.

A third country has joined the medal table for the very first time at the 2020 Tokyo Games.

It will nearly impossible for Pita Taufatofua to outlast his original claim to fame as “the shirtless flag bearer,” which made him a legend on social media.

For anyone who’s waiting until the Games air in primetime Thursday night: Caution ahead! This article contains spoilers.

The Tokyo Olympics are still just getting started, but there already have been a good collection of stories that have pulled at the heartstrings of millions around the world.

Simone Biles came to Tokyo as the star of the U.S. Olympic movement and perhaps the Games themselves.

It was the portion of the Opening Ceremony that many were talking about, and no, it wasn’t the lighting of the torch.

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Ja'Quan Lavender is a track star from Ohio that recently moved to Houston during the Summer of 2020. Lavender is originally from Steubenville, Ohio. and graduated from Tiffin University in Tiffin, Ohio. He was currently training for the 2020 Summer Olympics, but unfortunately, did not qualify for the 400 meter dash this year. So now, his focus is to prepare for the 2022 World Championships and 2024 Summer Olympics.

Tens of thousands of visiting athletes, officials and media are descending on Japan for a Summer Olympics unlike any other.

The largest of the Navajo Nation casinos is preparing to reopen for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.

When the pandemic hit last March leading to a one year postponement of the Olympics and the inability of teams to practice and play together, the U.S. women’s volleyball team devised a plan.

The past two Olympics in indoor volleyball have shown that slow starts are far from detrimental.