#Olympics

#Olympics

FIFA has spent the last few years upgrading its revenue projections, with the most recent financial report stating that the world governing body will make $13bn from the four-year cycle culminating in this summer's tournament, almost $9bn of which will be brought in this year.

Chloe Kim burst onto the snowboarding scene at age 13, winning silver at the prestigious Aspen, Colorado, X Games just a few months before her 14th birthday. She went on to win the halfpipe event at Aspen the following year and then went on to claim another seven victories at X Games.

Millie Bobby Brown was set to portray Kerri Strug, a member of the 1996 'Magnificent Seven' USA gymnastics team, but left due to creative differences.

Dearica Hamby has recorded career highs in points per game (18.4) and field goal percentage (57.2%) while averaging 7.9 rebounds, 3.3 assists, and 1.6 steals last season.

"He was so charming and very sexy. It was the same type of charisma you see in movie stars." - Longtime friend Dede Brinkman, Sacramento Bee

Lin Yu-ting has won a bronze medal at the Asian Boxing Elite Championships in her first competition since a gender-eligibility row overshadowed her Olympic gold medal-winning performance at the 2024 Paris Games.

Valentina Greggio has once again rewritten the record books, setting a new women's speed skiing world record of 248.270 km/h, surpassing her own long-standing mark of 247.083 km/h from 2016.

I think when this first was announced, there was this feeling there would be 10 NFL players on that roster, and I'll be surprised if there's one. I think we have plenty of players that can acclimate, but it's going to take a month or two.

Marie Harf argued that the decision was solving a problem that I actually don't think is a big problem on the Olympic stage. She stated, 'Honestly, I don't care' about trans women competing against women, which led to stunned reactions from the panel.

"Athletes who screen negative for the SRY gene permanently satisfy this policy's eligibility criteria for competition in the female category. Unless there is reason to believe that a negative reading is in error, this will be a once-in-a-lifetime test."

Londoners know Seb Coe as the gold medalist who helped bring the best Olympics of a generation to the city. He is a proven winner who has already delivered for the capital - putting him way ahead of the field.

Derval O'Rourke recently saw the trailer for the new Rory McIlroy documentary about his Masters victory and there's a line in it about last year being his 17th attempt to win the green jacket.

"You could tell where his skill set was as a coder and as a thinker, and he was just supremely advanced. He was taking senior-level courses as a freshman and showing up to a three-hour final exam, two hours late, and getting the highest grade in class."

I think that the Paris Games deserve a lot of the credit for rejuvenating that interest and enthusiasm, and some of that momentum continued through to Milan,

Nyenget had as good a view as anyone of his fellow Norwegian's sixth gold medal of the Games in the 50km mass start. It was not until the final uphill slope that Klbo landed the killer blow. Nyenget had stayed with him until then and admirably fended off a couple of attacks on the final lap of the 7.2km course.

On the foothills of the mountains, by the banks of the river in Cortina, there was a forest. It was full of tall larch trees. Arborists said the oldest of them had been there for 150 years and dendrologists that it was unique because it was unusual to find a monocultural forest growing at such a low altitude in the southern Alps.

Boy, am I ever embarrassed. Several days ago on this website, I was all Ski mountaineering is the hot new thing at the Milan Cortina Games! and You're gonna love skimo! and Skimo! Skimo! Skimo! (That last one is a direct quote.) I was rambling on about bootpacking and hyping up Jon Kistler's Instagram (now up to 1,476 followers!) and basically making myself into a ski mountaineering influencer.