The Latest Breaking News from Olympics

2022 Winter Olympics GB Women’s Curling Team to be granted the Freedom of Perth

Councillors unanimously voted to bestow the honour on the team - which includes Perthshire's Eve Muirhead and Mili Smith - following their success in Beijing

Daily Record · Apr 28, 2022

Barcelona to spend a season away from Nou Camp amid redevelopment

Barca play home games at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys – the home of the 1992 Olympics

The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2022

Katie Taylor reveals how Roy Keane helped lift her after ‘lowest moment’ of career

Taylor had been defeated in the quarter-finals at the Olympics in 2016 when Keane called

The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2022

Vladimir Putin in staunch defence of Kamila Valieva as he slams ban on Russian athletes

Kamila Valieva has received the support of Russia's president Vladimir Putin after the 16-year-old figure skater's doping case rocked the Winter Olympics in Beijing last year

Daily Mirror · Apr 27, 2022

Brisbane Olympic board seeks 2032 boss

Appointing a chief executive for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics and Paralympics is the top priority of the organising committee board.

AAP · Apr 27, 2022

Larry Stone: Storm legend Lauren Jackson gets second chance to revive career, and looks like her old self

SEATTLE — Lauren Jackson, on the shortlist of the greatest women’s basketball players in history, limped reluctantly into retirement six years ago. Her heart and mind were still willing, but her chronically ailing knees simply would not allow Jackson to play the game she had dominated for so long in…

Tribune News Service · Apr 27, 2022

Putin Backs Russian Skater Valieva as She Faces Doping Case

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed support for figure skater Kamila Valieva on Tuesday, saying she did not compete "dishonestly" after her doping case dominated this year's Winter Olympics. Valieva was on the gold-medal winning Russian squad for the figure skating team event at the Beijing Olympics but no medal ceremony…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 26, 2022

Talking Point: What do you think of the Jubilee lineup of ‘national treasures’?

The lineup for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee has been announced to much fanfare online, with the likes of Ed Sheeran, Sir Cliff Richard and Bill Bailey getting involved in the biggest celebration of “Britishness” since the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics. The “People’s Pageant” is to begin on Thursday…

Evening Standard · Apr 26, 2022

Mike Bianchi: Woke sports organizations are ignoring women’s rights in transgender debate

They used to call Nancy Hogshead-Makar a leftist liberal, a tolerant Democrat and a fierce feminist who dedicated her life to fighting for the rights of female athletes.

Orlando Sentinel · Apr 25, 2022

Sanctions won't stop Putin — this might

All along, Putin has counted on the fact that Europe needs Russian gas. But that's also his Achilles heel

Salon · Apr 24, 2022