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 [...]

LONDON (AP) – Olympic champion Mo Farah stuck to his plan to run just half the London Marathon in preparation for his debut next year at the full 26 miles. The Briton was among the leading group halfway through the race Sunday but slowed [...]

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) – Palestinians and their supporters are running the West Bank’s first marathon. Itidal Abdul-Ghani of the Palestinian Olympic Committee says some 1,000 people are participating in Sunday’s race, which [...]

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) -Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge has won the Hamburg Marathon in a course record time while Diana Lobacevske of Lithuania has taken the women’s title. The 28-year-old Kipchoge won the men’s race in 2 hours, 5 minutes [...]

London gold medalist Mo Farah of Great Britain, who’s set to make his marathon debut in London Sunday, said he’s comfortable with the security measures in the wake of the Boston bombings. “For me, this is home, this is a great city… [...]

/ LONDON (Reuters) – Kenya’s Olympic silver medalist Priscah Jeptoo won the women’s London Marathon title in an unofficial time of two hours 20 minutes 15 seconds on Sunday. World champion Edna Kiplagat was runner up for [...]

LONDON (AP) -Tsegaye Kebede won the London Marathon for the second time on Sunday amid enhanced security in the first major race since the twin bombings in Boston. The Ethiopian chased down Emmanuel Mutai, and overtook the Kenyan in the closing [...]

Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images LONDON – A defiant, festive mood prevailed Sunday at the London Marathon despite concerns raised by the bomb attacks on the Boston Marathon six days ago. Thousands of runners offered tributes to those killed [...]

This year’s London Diamond League meet, taking place at Olympic Stadium and featuring world record sprinter Usain Bolt and British gold medalists Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis, sold out 75 minutes after going on sale Friday morning, organizers [...]

London gold medalist Mo Farah of Great Britain, who’s set to make his marathon debut in London Sunday, said he’s comfortable with the security measures in the wake of the Boston bombings. “For me, this is home, this is a great city… [...]

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) – Top-ranked Penn State will go for a NCAA men’s gymnastics team title Saturday night on its home floor. Stanford and Iowa also advanced Friday night in the second qualifying session. Michigan, Oklahoma and [...]

Olympic gold medalist Shawn Crawford was suspended for two years by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency on Thursday for not giving full information about his whereabouts for out-of-competition drug testing, although his coach said he retired after the [...]

This year’s London Diamond League meet, taking place at Olympic Stadium and featuring world record sprinter Usain Bolt and British gold medalists Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis, sold out 75 minutes after going on sale Friday morning, organizers [...]

INNSBRUCK, Austria (AP) – The speed coach of the Austrian men’s ski team is out of an induced coma and was breathing on his own Friday, 12 days after suffering severe head, chest and back injuries in a skiing accident. The Austrian [...]

SYDNEY (AP) – Six Australian swimmers at the center of a prescription drug scandal before the London Olympics were fined and given a suspended ban Friday by Swimming Australia. Five of the six swimmers – Eamon Sullivan, Matt Targett, [...]

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) – Five-time Olympic gold medalist Ian Thorpe won’t revive his swimming career next week in the Australian trials for the world championships. While Thorpe had said in January that he might return to the pool [...]