Across four Olympics, Elana Meyers Taylor had come as close as humanly possible to Olympic gold without winning it.Then, in one thrilling minute on Monday night, her lifetime wait was suddenly over—and she had more than monobob gold to show for it. 🔗 https://t.co/VvxsQvM3jW https://t.co/bAUmvy9W9n ...

In a few cases, it's actually exolympic athletes piloting the drones. >> Oh, really. So, one of the big concerns was, are these going to get in the way of the athletes.Are they going to crash. Is there are there going to be injuries. And so, this was a multi-year process to get all the various sporting bodies on board eventually get the athletes on board.And one of the things that helped was, yeah, these are extreme sport athletes who who were the core drone market. And so, a lot of them after their playing ...

After details of payments from Beijing’s sports bureau to freestyle skiing champion Eileen Gu were accidentally revealed last year, her name was quickly scrubbed from the budget.⁠ #Olympics #China #WSJ ...

Welcome to the Vergecast, flagship podcast of phones that are also laptops and tablets and maybe kind of smartwatches. I'm your friend David Pierce and I just got a new game for the Nintendo Switch and this is a surprisingly big deal to me. So, I I'm sure I've talked about this before, but my like true sweet spot era of gaming growing up was the Nintendo 64, which means I logged, you know, a million hours on Golden Eye.I played a lot of Mario Party. I played a lot of Mario Golf, but the Nintendo 64 game for ...

Toronto Maple Leafs Center and highest-paid NHL player Auston Matthews will lead the U.S. men’s ice hockey team as the NHL makes its return to the Olympics for the first time in 12 years.All NHL teams will have at least one player participating in the tournament, and each team has one NHL player on its roster, except Italy, which is granted automatic qualification as a host and is not a traditional hockey power.The U.S. team is collectively due to earn $226.5 million on the ice from 2025 to 2026, according ...

They came expecting a gold rush. Instead, Team USA's dreams of a record Olympics are suddenly falling apart https://t.co/Y5QheEr8gL ...

There's something off the ice that's going to shape this year's men's Olympic hockey tournament. US foreign policy. For months, President Donald Trump has tried to annex Greenland, a Danish territory into the United States.Even after agreeing to the framework of a deal with NATO, tensions are still raw between the two allies. Then there's Canada. President Donald Trump has spent most of his second term teasing the Canadians about becoming the 51st state.And even recently, he suggested that if Canada strengt ...

The real stars of the Games aren’t on skis or skates or even bombing downhill on sleds. Instead, they have propellers, reach speeds of 110 miles per hour and emit high-pitched buzzing sounds. They’re also changing the way the world watches the Olympics. https://t.co/CfhloFW5AE https://t.co/VI6wmDDqdr ...

One week into the Olympics and Team USA is short of its ultimate goal, which is to win more medals than any other country. Part of it comes down to underperformance from some of their biggest names. And now they've fallen behind Norway and Italy.Lindsey Vaughn crashed. Khloe Kim fell. Michaela Shiffren struggled.But the biggest shock came when Ilia Malanin, the overwhelming favorite for figure skating gold, slumped to eighth on Friday night. And suddenly, Team USA is looking up in the medal standings at the ...

here to talk about it all, an Olympic legend in her own right, veteran broadcaster Mary Curillo. Mary, it's so great to have you here on this night. I wish we had better news.We both witnessed Ilia on the ice and and I feel terrible because and and I I shouldn't feel terrible, but I've been talking him up so much during these Olympic games. Everyone has. >> Everyone has.I know it's like, are we watching the GOAT. Are we watching the Michael Jordan of figure skating. He was doing something no one else has do ...