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A run-in with a fan in Florida left Ryan Lochte with serious knee injuries. The 11-time Olympic medalist tore an MCL and sprained an ACL after a teenage girl ran at him, he caught her and they both toppled over Sunday, according to USA Today. Lochte hit his knee on a curb. A Lochte representative…
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Rocket ready to take Sochi Olympic torch to International Space Station (photos)
Nov 5, 2013, 4:25 PM EST
All systems appear to be go for the first Olympic torch spacewalk. The Sochi Olympic torch will embark on a mission to outer space from Kazakhstan on a Russian Soyuz rocket with Sochi 2014 designs on Wednesday night (Eastern Time). The spacecraft was set on a launch pad on Tuesday, according to RIA Novosti. Video of…
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Slovakia’s men’s hockey team is taking national pride to another level at the Sochi Olympics. Its jerseys, released Tuesday, include not only the national colors, but also the words of the nation’s anthem. Lyrics from “Nad Tatrou sa blýska” (“Lightning over the Tatras”) adorn the sweaters in small white lettering on top of a navy…
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Yuna Kim is coming back in December and Evan Lysacek‘s return is up in the air, but Yevgeny Plushenko is going to compete this week. The 2006 Olympic champion and three-time Olympic medalist is slated to take the ice in Riga, Latvia, for the lower-level Volvo Open Cup beginning Thursday. Plushenko, 31, hasn’t competed since withdrawing after the short…
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Chinese Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang has been suspended indefinitely from competing by his college. Sun, 21, was found to be driving without a license after an accident Sunday and detained for at least seven days, but the suspension is for being absent from school, according to The Associated Press. “The car crash case simply forced us…
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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce among World Athlete of the Year finalists
Nov 5, 2013, 10:28 AM EST
Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, New Zealand shot putter Valerie Adams and Czech Republic hurdler Zuzana Hejnova were named finalists for the IAAF World Athlete of the Year award on Tuesday. Fraser-Pryce matched countryman Usain Bolt in winning three gold medals at the World Championships in Moscow this summer and is the favorite for the award. The winner will be revealed Nov. 16.…
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Beijing wants to host the Olympics again, but this time it eyes the Winter Games. China sent a nomination letter to the International Olympic Committee proposing a joint Beijing-Zhangjiakou bid for the 2022 Olympics, according to Xinhua News Agency. The deadline for cities to bid for the 2022 Winter Games is Nov. 14. The IOC…
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Journalist says Olympic flame has gone out at least 44 times on torch relay
Nov 5, 2013, 9:44 AM EST
The Olympic flame has been extinguished an average of more than once per day during the Sochi Olympic torch relay, according to a journalist following the record trek. The flame has gone out at least 44 times, according to the Moscow Times. A torch relay spokesman told Reuters the number of flameouts was within the normal…
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Lindsey Vonn had an interesting description of her boyfriend in a sitdown with Katie Couric to air Tuesday. Couric called Tiger Woods an “enigma” and asked Vonn what he’s like as a person. “He’s funny,” Vonn said. “He’s really laid back, a great guy, always making jokes, very competitive, just like me. We have very similar personalities. If…
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Olympic and World figure skating champion Yuna Kim will reportedly make her season debut in Zagreb, Croatia, in one month. It was announced in late September that the South Korean Kim, 23, would miss around six weeks after a metatarsal injury to her right foot from training. She withdrew from her two Grand Prix assignments. Last week, Kim said she…
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Winter sports chief concerned about possible 2022 World Cup in November
Nov 4, 2013, 4:48 PM EST
The Winter Olympics would surely be affected if the 2022 World Cup is moved to January or February, but even a potential November World Cup in Qatar is being met with concern by winter sports officials. “November is the start of the (winter sports) season for maybe, I would say, all the other federations,” Rene Fasel,…
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USA Track and Field bids for 2016 World Indoor Championships
Nov 4, 2013, 4:14 PM EST
The World Track and Field Championships — either indoor and outdoor — have been going for 30 years. The U.S. has hosted once, but it would like to again in three years. USA Track and Field made it official Monday, submitting a bid for Portland, Ore., to host the 2016 World Indoor Championships. The Telegraph in Great…
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Report: Ten kiss-and-cry areas for Olympic figure skating team event
Nov 4, 2013, 3:46 PM EST
The new Olympic figure skating team event must make room to accommodate 10 nations’ worth of skaters watching their teammates compete. With that in mind, there will be 10 kiss-and-cry areas at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, according to the Wall Street Journal. “While ice rinks usually have only one area for ‘kiss-and-cry’ —…
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Liu Xiang and other Chinese athletes donned Red Army uniforms at a national team meeting in China on Sunday. The athletes were together for what’s been called a “motivational convention” and an “oath-taking rally” in the birthplace of China’s communist revolution on Sunday, according to the South China Morning Post. Here’s what China Daily posted: “The team members…
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What was Seb Coe‘s reaction to hearing “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe would play him in an upcoming film? “My office told me about that this morning,” Coe told the Telegraph at the British Olympic Ball. “I can’t tell you I have spent a lot of time thinking about it. I’m only sorry George Clooney must clearly have been busy.”…
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How versatile are the world’s greatest athletes? Ashton Eaton and, now, Roman Sebrle want to find out. Last month, the 2012 Olympic decathlon champion Eaton said he would train for the 400m hurdles next year. 2004 Olympic decathlon champion Roman Sebrle is going off the track altogether. The Czech, recently retired from 10-event training, has taken up golf and would…
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The U.S. luge team’s training was cut short Monday afternoon at the Sanki Sliding Center in Sochi after power went out in the area. “We didn’t really know what was going on,” said USA Luge Sports Program Director Mark Grimmette, a silver medalist at the 2002 Salt Lake Games, on a conference call with reporters.…
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Usain Bolt among finalists for IAAF World Athlete of the Year
Nov 4, 2013, 11:43 AM EST
The only track and field athlete to break a world record in 2013 is not a finalist for World Athlete of the Year, The IAAF, track and field’s international governing body, narrowed its men’s list from 10 to three finalists on Monday – Usain Bolt, Mo Farah and Bohdan Bondarenko. It left off Kenyan Wilson Kipsang, who won the Berlin Marathon…
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Michael Phelps extended his sponsorship deal with Subway and will join soccer legend Pele for a commercial, according to Sports Business Journal. The commercial would pair the most decorated Olympic champion of all time — 22 medals for Phelps — with the man many believe is the greatest soccer player of all time. Pele also won three…
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Olympic torch relay traverses Russian tundra next to reindeer (video)
Nov 4, 2013, 11:01 AM EST
The Olympic torch relay visited the frozen tundra of northern Russia on Sunday. There, it mingled with the locals — herds of grunting reindeer. Sochi Olympic Organizing Committee manager Andrei Chibisov was the single torch bearer in Naryan-Mar, a town north of the Arctic Circle, according to R-Sport. The temperature? One degree Farenheit. “The vanguard of the…
