Oldest Living Olympic

Olympic champions reunite to seal Australia’s Davis Cup win over Sweden

Australia defeat Sweden 3-1 to seal home tie in next round Peers-Ebden beat Bergevi-Goransson 6-7 (7-9), 6-3, 6-2 Olympic champions John Peers and Matt Ebden have reunited to seal an emphatic ...

The Guardian - 3d

Olympic cauldron to float in Paris skies every summer until the 2028 Games

French President Emmanuel Macron says the cauldron balloon, one of the Paris Olympics’ most admired attractions, would float in the skies over the French capital every summer until the 2028 Los ...

ABC News - 4d

Dick Button, figure skating legend and Olympic champion, dies at 95

Dick Button, winner of two Olympic gold medals and five consecutive world championships, has died at the age of 95.

CBS News - 5d

Dick Button, Olympic great and voice of skating, dies at 95

Olympic figure skating great and authoritative commentator Dick Button has died at age 95

ABC News - 5d

Olympic figure skating great and commentator Dick Button dies at 95

ABC News - 5d

The oldest evidence for lead pollution comes from ancient Greece

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece

ABC News - 5d

Italian Alps to host 2028 Youth Winter Olympics

Italy will hold the Youth Winter Olympics two years after hosting the Milan Cortina Games.

Yahoo Sports - 5d

Iris Cummings Critchell, 104, Dies; Olympic Swimmer Turned Aviator

The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot and an aeronautics instructor.

The New York Times - 6d

Scott targets Olympic gold again in Los Angeles

Olympic champion Hannah Scott tells BBC Sport NI that it is her intention to go for rowing gold again at the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.

BBC News - Jan. 28

Transgender athletes face blanket ban at Olympics

Transgender women are increasingly likely to be banned from the female category across Olympic sport after another leading candidate to become International Olympic Committee president backed a new ...

Yahoo Sports - Jan. 27

Pete Carroll set to top this list of oldest NFL coaches ever after historic hiring by Raiders

Pete Carroll is about to become the oldest person to ever coach in an NFL game

CBS Sports - Jan. 24

KD's epic Steph quote from Olympics documentary goes viral

Former Warriors star forward Kevin Durant delivered a great one-liner about his Team USA teammate, Steph Curry, and the legendary guard's prowess during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, particularly ...

Yahoo Sports - Jan. 24

Pete Carroll takes Raiders job, set to become oldest head coach in NFL history next season at 74

Las Vegas hires a Super Bowl champion head coach Tom Brady faced in the big game during his playing career

CBS Sports - Jan. 24

Mikaela Shiffrin injury update: Olympic champion returning to ski racing after recovering from puncture wound

Shiffrin will be back in action at Courchevel only two months after a major oblique injury

CBS Sports - Jan. 23

Olympic gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin announces return to skiing

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin will return to the Alpine Ski World Cup on Jan.

NBC News - Jan. 23

Former Olympic swimmer expresses 'relief' after Trump pardon

A former Olympic swimmer has expressed “relief” about President Trump pardoning him, according to a Tuesday report from The Washington Post. “Waking up this morning, I was like: ‘My gosh. Wow, this ...

The Hill - Jan. 22

IBA asks Trump to 'look into' 2028 Olympics omission

The International Boxing Association asks Donald Trump's new administration to "look into" the sport's omission from the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

BBC News - Jan. 22

Stephen A ‘never sad' to see Tatum torch Dubs after Olympics benching

ESPN's Stephen A. Smith believes Steve Kerr made an "egregious" mistake leaving Jayson Tatum out of his rotation during the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Yahoo Sports - Jan. 21

Brignone wins super-G after Goggia takes downhill as Italy goes 2-for-2 on Olympic course in Cortina

Federica Brignone and Sofia Goggia made it a sweep for host Italy on the course for next year’s Milan-Cortina Olympics

ABC News - Jan. 19

Former Olympic gymnast Yul Moldauer is suspended 16 months by USADA for whereabouts violations

One-time Olympic gymnast Yul Moldauer says he has been suspended for 16 months by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency after he missed three drug tests

ABC News - Jan. 18

At 40, Lindsey Vonn returns to winning ground -- and eyes 2026 Olympics

Vonn will race at Cortina this weekend, the site of some of her greatest successes. Can she recapture the magic?

ESPN - Jan. 18

Rebuild in Los Angeles after wildfires could impact runup to Olympic Games

Los Angeles is scheduled to host the 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, in addition to World Cup matches in 2026 and a Super Bowl in 2027.

CBS News - Jan. 18

US flag football star Ashlea Klam eyes 2028 Olympic gold – and so much more

Three years out from the flag football’s debut as an Olympic sport in Los Angeles, few women have seized on the opportunities it’s created like Ashlea Klam

Yahoo Sports - Jan. 18

Daughter of one of the oldest Israeli hostages hopes for answers in ceasefire deal

As one of the oldest hostages taken by Hamas, Oded Lifshitz would be among the first to be released under a ceasefire deal

ABC News - Jan. 17

Lindsey Vonn’s ‘impossible’ comeback roars on with 2026 Olympics in frame

She’s now 40 with a knee made of titanium, but Lindsey Vonn’s comeback is already bucking expectations and crackling with the promise of a fifth Olympic Games. There’s no denying the nervous ...

The Guardian - Jan. 17

LA's Olympic venues were spared by wildfires, but the city's rebuild could impact the Games' runup

The deadly wildfires that have ravaged sections of Los Angeles left an indelible imprint on the region's landscape and psyche

ABC News - Jan. 17

Meet the 2 Young Cross-Country Skiers Aiming for American Olympic History

Olympic medals in the sport have always proved to be elusive to American men. Could the curse break soon?

The New York Times - Jan. 17

A rare gold medal from the 1904 St. Louis Olympics is up for auction

A rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis is being auctioned off as part of a larger collection of memorabilia from previous Games

ABC News - Jan. 17

'September 5' revisits the seminal Munich Olympics attack broadcast, with questions for today

Nearly all of the new film “September 5” takes place in the darkened, smokey control room from which ABC Sports broadcast the hostage crisis of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich

ABC News - Jan. 16

Macuga sisters Sam, Lauren and Alli all in different ski events, aim for family reunion at Olympics

The Macuga sisters Sam, Lauren and Alli all compete in a different ski discipline and all three could very well make the U.S. team for the Milan-Cortina Olympics next winter

ABC News - Jan. 15

Los Angeles wildfires cast a shadow over 2028 Olympics

The finale of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris featured a memorable televised “handover” to the next host city, Los Angeles.

NBC News - Jan. 15

Monfils becomes oldest ATP Tour champion with Auckland win

Gael Monfils makes history by becoming the oldest winner of an ATP Tour singles title after triumphing at the ASB Classic in Auckland.

Yahoo Sports - Jan. 11

Monfils becomes oldest ATP Tour champion

Gael Monfils makes history by becoming the oldest winner of an ATP Tour singles title after triumphing at the ASB Classic in Auckland.

BBC News - Jan. 11

Monfils, 38, oldest to win ATP title, passing Federer

French veteran Gael Monfils, at 38 years and 132 days, became the oldest player to win an ATP Tour title after beating Zizou Bergs 6-3, 6-4 in Auckland on Saturday.

ESPN - Jan. 11

Peter Sarsgaard on telling the story behind the live broadcast of the Munich Olympics attack

Actor Peter Sarsgaard, known for roles in "Presumed Innocent" and "Dead Man Walking," now stars in "September Five," recounting the harrowing story of an American broadcasting team during the 1972 ...

CBS News - Jan. 10

Romanian Gymnast Involved in Olympic Medal Controversy Commits to Stanford

Ana Barbosu was awarded the bronze medal that was stripped from the American Jordan Chiles.

The New York Times - Jan. 9

WATCH: Brazilian nun named world's oldest living person at 116

Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas was born on June 8, 1908.

ABC News - Jan. 7

Simone Biles opens up about mental health, Tokyo Games and her ‘forbidden Olympic closet’

The Olympic gold medalist says she hid away her leotards and other items from the 2020 Games.

MarketWatch - Jan. 7

A soccer-loving nun from Brazil tops list of world's oldest living person at nearly 117

A soccer-loving nun from Brazil is believed to have become the world’s oldest living person at nearly 117 following the recent death of a woman from Japan.

NBC News - Jan. 6

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