TULSA, Okla. – Buoyed by its success hosting a major fishing tournament this winter, Oklahoma’s second-largest city is now dreaming of something faster, higher, stronger: the 2024 Summer Olympics. Local officials acknowledge the [...]

USOC Chief Executive Scott Blackmun told the Associated Press that the committee is considering ten cities for America’s 2024 Olympic bid, including a joint bid between San Diego and Tijuana. “That would have its challenges, Blackmun said [...]

TOKYO (AP) – Organizers of Tokyo’s bid for the 2020 Olympics reiterated their commitment to IOC rules Monday after the city’s governor was quoted making critical comments about rival candidate Istanbul. “Tokyo 2020 fully [...]

TOKYO (AP) – Organizers of Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics have reiterated their commitment to the IOC’s guidelines for candidate cities amid reports that Tokyo governor Naoki Inose may have violated bidding rules by [...]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – The 2016 U.S. Olympic swimming trials are going back to Omaha for the third time. USA Swimming President Bruce Stratton announced the decision to return to Nebraska on Saturday. San Antonio and St. Louis [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Queen Harrison ran a world-leading 12.71 seconds in the 100-meter hurdles Saturday to win the marquee event at the Drake Relays. Dawn Harper was second, and fellow Olympian Kellie Wells third – just like they [...]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Alysia Montano had no idea what the American record for the women’s 3,200 relay was when she took her place on the track during the Penn Relays on Saturday. Then, she heard it over the Franklin Field loudspeaker. “I [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Rookie Andrew Riley beat London Olympic champion Aries Merritt in the 110-meter hurdles to highlight the Drake Relays on Friday night. Riley, the 2012 NCAA winner for Illinois at Drake Stadium, finished in 13.43 [...]

Bud Selig strikes again. Despite the fact that allowing MLB players to participate in the Olympics would boost the sport’s possibility of getting readmitted in 2020, and grow baseball worldwide, Selig pounded a nail in that coffin Thursday. [...]

TULSA, Okla. – Buoyed by its success hosting a major fishing tournament this winter, Oklahoma’s second-largest city is now dreaming of something faster, higher, stronger: the 2024 Summer Olympics. Local officials acknowledge the [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Lolo Jones returned from a brief stint as a bobsledder with a gold medal and more strength than ever. Jones’s power burst has led her to adopt a new starting technique – one she hopes can rejuvenate [...]

The U.S. Olympic Committee is talking to 10 cities about a possible bid for the 2024 Summer Games, including a joint proposal from San Diego and Mexican neighbor Tijuana. Following failed bids for the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, the USOC sent out [...]

Bud Selig strikes again. Despite the fact that allowing MLB players to participate in the Olympics would boost the sport’s possibility of getting readmitted in 2020, and grow baseball worldwide, Selig pounded a nail in that coffin Thursday. [...]

/ NEW YORK (Reuters) – Apolo Anton Ohno endeared himself to millions of Americans as the face of short-track speedskating, winning eight Olympic medals in a dazzling career. With his trademark bandana and goatee, Ohno was an instant [...]

American short-track speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno’s racing career is apparently over as of Wednesday. And while you’ll still see him at the Sochi Games next February, it will be with a mic in his hand as a correspondent for NBC. “I think [...]

NEW YORK (AP) -Major League Baseball won’t change its schedule to boost the sport’s chances of getting back into the Olympics. Baseball was an Olympic medal sport from 1992-2008, then was dropped for last year’s London Games. [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Lolo Jones returned from a brief stint as a bobsledder with a gold medal and more strength than ever. Jones’s power burst has led her to adopt a new starting technique – one she hopes can rejuvenate [...]

MOSCOW (AP) – A top official for Russia’s athletics federation says metal detectors will be used at the track and field world championships in Moscow in August. Concerns about safety increased after last week’s deadly bombings [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Drake Relays begin this week with best field in recent memory. The annual Iowa meet and new sponsor Hy-Vee, a grocery store chain, came up with the idea of staging as many rematches of the 2012 London Games [...]

Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte was on the TODAY show Monday to talk about the premiere of his new E! Entertainment show What Would Ryan Lochte Do? and to explain what sets him apart from his teammates. “I’m not your average Olympian,” Lochte [...]

American short-track speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno’s racing career is apparently over as of Wednesday. And while you’ll still see him at the Sochi Games next February, it will be with a mic in his hand as a correspondent for NBC. “I think [...]

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) – The tiny South Pacific island of Vanuatu is competing with Russia and Qatar to host the 2015 men’s world boxing championships. The sport’s amateur governing body, known as AIBA, says they are among [...]

* Security measures to tighten on June 1 * Russia says Boston bombings won’t affect security * Critics worry bureaucracy could hinder security By Thomas Grove SOCHI, Russia, April 24 (Reuters) – Pass the metal scanner on arrival [...]

Should world No. 2 Rory McIlroy opt to participate in the 2016 Rio Olympics, it now appears likely he will do so under the flag of Ireland. A native of Northern Ireland who previously represented Ireland in competition as [...]

London Olympic gymnastics champ Arthur Zanetti of Brazil is threatening to switch nationalities ahead of his upcoming hometown Games in Rio unless the nation’s Olympic Committee is willing to invest in his sport going forward. “When I won [...]

Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte was on the TODAY show Monday to talk about the premiere of his new E! Entertainment show What Would Ryan Lochte Do? and to explain what sets him apart from his teammates. “I’m not your average Olympian,” Lochte [...]

(Reuters) – Philadelphia is exploring a bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games, Mayor Michael Nutter said on Monday. Nutter was responding to a letter from the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) sent to 35 cities across the country seeking [...]

Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images LONDON – The race was in London, but the thoughts of many were with another city. Thousands of runners who took part in the London Marathon on Sunday paid tribute to those killed and injured in the Boston [...]

London Olympic gymnastics champ Arthur Zanetti of Brazil is threatening to switch nationalities ahead of his upcoming hometown Games in Rio unless the nation’s Olympic Committee is willing to invest in his sport going forward. “When I won [...]

BERLIN (AP) – IOC President Jacques Rogge believes his successor should be paid a salary. Rogge will step down in September after 12 years at the helm of the International Olympic Committee. Rogge and previous IOC presidents did not receive [...]