FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – Chinese divers won all four events on the final day to sweep the 2013 FINA USA Diving Grand Prix on Sunday. U.S. Olympic medalist Troy Dumais took silver in the 3-meter springboard behind He Chao’s 53.25 [...]

(Eds: Updates with details, quotes. With AP Photos.) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Michael Phelps is off playing golf and showing no signs of backtracking on his decision to retire from swimming. That leaves a big hole on the U.S. team as it [...]

Portraying himself as a “global” candidate with a world view, Ng Ser Miang of Singapore is hoping to break the European stranglehold on the top Olympic job. The 64-year-old diplomat and businessman entered the IOC presidential race [...]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -American, Iranian and Russian wrestlers hope their unity will sway the IOC to keep their sport in the Olympics. The three nations with often tense relations off the mat will compete in an exhibition at Manhattan’s [...]

Leave it to the Americans to show up Usain Bolt and the Jamaicans early in the season: After London fourth place finisher Tyson Gay sprinted to a world’s best 100m time of 9.86-seconds at the Kingston Invite last weekend, where he was a replacement [...]

At the height of her success, high jumper Blanka Vlasic had to relearn how to leap. There was really no other choice for the 29-year-old Croatian. A fragment of a bone in her left ankle broke off and embedded into her Achilles, requiring surgery [...]

Missy Franklin is growing up. The star of the London Olympics turned 18 last week. She graduates from high school Monday. She even went to the bank the other day, putting the accounts in her name to get ready for life as an adult. She says, [...]

(Reuters) – Singapore’s Ser Miang Ng officially launched his bid for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday, saying he wanted youth to play a central role in the movement and to see IOC members more actively [...]

KEARNS, Utah (AP) – The U.S. Olympic speedskating trials will be shown on both network and cable TV for the first time this winter. The 11-day trials will determine the team for next year’s Sochi Games. The long track trials will [...]

NEW YORK (AP) – Iran has defeated the United States 6-1 in a wrestling exhibition at Grand Central Terminal. Cheered on by a large, loud contingent of fans waving Iranian flags, the wrestling power dominated Wednesday in its first trip [...]

While many were simply mourning the IOC’s recommendation to remove wrestling from the 2020 Olympics schedule, Billy Baldwin was busy doing something about it. And trust us, he went full Baldwin. Billy named himself Hollywood Point Man for [...]

Amateur International Boxing Associating president C.K. Wu of Taiwan has also apparently thrown his hat into the ring in hopes of becoming the next IOC president when current leader Jacques Rogge’s tenure is up this September. “Dr Wu handed [...]

After the Iranian national wrestling team put a 6-1 whooping on the U.S. at Wednesday’s “Rumble on the Rails” at New York’s historic Grand Central Station, the two teams were preparing to square off again in Los Angeles Sunday as part [...]

The swimming world went a little nuts Friday when NBC Fort Myers anchor Peter Busch, son of U.S. national swim team director Frank Busch, tweeted that he confirmed what many of us have hoped: Olympic champ Michael Phelps was already “planning [...]

FILA, wrestling’s governing body, is spending the weekend in Moscow cleaning house before an upcoming IOC vote will determine if they end up on the 2020 Olympics schedule. And apparently the meeting has been productive. On Saturday, acting [...]

LONDON (AP) – Olympic officials and scientific experts will meet in China next month to review the progress in developing a test for gene doping, the potential future of cheating in sports. IOC medical commission chairman Arne Ljungqvist [...]

CLAYTON, Ind. (AP) – A Central Indiana school district has asked four high school track coaches to resign for ordering male and female team members to perform so-called bear crawls on an asphalt running track for missing practice the day [...]

He may have never played a down of American football – ever – but British discus champ Lawrence Okoye, who San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh has called an “adonis” and a “beautiful man,” has the work ethic to make a difference now [...]

What if Usain Bolt had a twin brother named Insane who ran twice as fast? Well, he probably should have been running in the Olympics. But since that (sadly) isn’t reality, we just have this new Xfinity commercial that shows the hypothetical [...]

After being chosen as a potential host for the 2024 Olympics, Boston’s committee on Tourism, Arts, and Cultural Development is set to meet in Beacon Hill May 7 to discuss forming a commission that will examine the logistics of hosting the [...]

Amid the announcement that San Diego and Tijuana were considering a bi-national bid for the 2024 Olympics was the idea that, despite the obvious challenges with the proposal, 2012 republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is the man that [...]

He may have never played a down of American football – ever – but British discus champ Lawrence Okoye, who San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh has called an “adonis” and a “beautiful man,” has the work ethic to make a difference now [...]

SAN DIEGO (AP) – A cross-border bid for San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, to host the 2024 Summer Olympics appeared dead before arrival Tuesday when the U.S. Olympic Committee said international rules don’t allow two countries to mount [...]

Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose, who also heads the city’s 2020 Olympic Bid Committee apologized for “inappropriate” comments made about the other two potential host cities – Madrid and Istanbul – and about disputes between Islamic countries. “I [...]

World record sprinter Usain Bolt has pulled out of this weekend’s Jamaica International Invitational, citing a hamstring strain that happened during training; an injury his coach Glen Mills doesn’t want to aggravate this early in the season. “I [...]

Wrestling has always been part of actor Billy Baldwin’s life. With the sport’s future in peril, Baldwin is hoping his notoriety and Hollywood connections can help keep it on the Olympic program. Baldwin, who wrestled at Binghamton [...]

SAN DIEGO (AP) – Horrendous waits to enter the United States. A lack of sporting venues. Scarce hotel rooms during peak tourist season. As they mount a longshot bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, San Diego and Tijuana are playing down [...]

TOKYO (AP) – Tokyo’s governor offered a “sincere apology” for criticizing rival candidate Istanbul in violation of IOC rules on bidding for the 2020 Olympics. Naoki Inose, also chairman of the Tokyo bid committee, was [...]

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 [...]

After being chosen as a potential host for the 2024 Olympics, Boston’s committee on Tourism, Arts, and Cultural Development is set to meet in Beacon Hill May 7 to discuss forming a commission that will examine the logistics of hosting the [...]