The Latest Breaking News from Olympics

Feds withhold $1.2M as Florida refuses to enforce COVID vaccine rule for health care workers

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.— As Gov. Ron DeSantis fights COVID-19 vaccination passports and mandates — most recently by threatening the Special Olympics with a $27.5 million fine — there’s one mandate he can’t stop.

Tribune News Service · Jun 12, 2022

Schoolgirl on route to Olympics after discovering talent by accident

Sophie Jo Millican was just four years old when she discovered her special talent

Liverpool Echo · Jun 11, 2022

United Hockeyroos aim for Comm Games gold

Jane Claxton and Brooke Peris will be the most experienced players when the Hockeyroos attempt to snare Commonwealth Games gold in Birmingham later this year.

AAP · Jun 11, 2022

'I had defined my life by this sport and got nowhere - I decided to kill myself'

Anyika Onuora won Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth medals during 12 years competing for Great Britain and England. But behind her medal-winning smiles lay a journey filled with horrifying physical and mental turmoil. In the second of our two-part serialisation of her newly published autobiography, My Hidden Race, Anyika tells…

Daily Mirror · Jun 8, 2022

5 Haiti soccer players and their coach vanished from Special Olympics in Florida

MIAMI — They turned in their room keys and left behind their suitcases and other personal belongings. Why five Haitian soccer players and their coach decided to vanish while participating in the 2022 Special Olympics Games in Orlando remains a puzzling mystery.

Miami Herald · Jun 8, 2022

Sydney WorldPride 2023 to take over landmarks, spotlight First Nations voices

The Harbour Bridge, Bondi Beach and Oxford Street will all be closed temporarily as part of a glittering pride celebration next year that organisers say will be the largest held in Sydney since the 2000 Olympics.

ABC News · Jun 8, 2022

Kamila Valieva saga at Winter Olympics forces figure skating rule change

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, 15, is still under investigation after failing a doping test in an explosive saga which tainted the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

Daily Mirror · Jun 8, 2022

I have become more attacking now: Sarita

KOLKATA: Sarita Mor treats her World No. 1 ranking as a source of motivation to work towards landing

The Hindu · Jun 8, 2022

Six members of Special Olympics team mysteriously vanish after leaving bags at hotel

All the missing Haiti delegates handed their room keys in at reception before disappearing, abandoning their personal belongings and bags. One of the six is believed to have an intellectual disability

Daily Mirror · Jun 8, 2022

Six members of Special Olympics team go missing in Florida, police say

Authorities say all six members left behind their belongings before going missing

The Independent UK · Jun 8, 2022