U.S. Olympic Team

The U.S. Men’s Fencing Team donned pink facemasks on Friday to protest a teammate accused of multiple instances of sexual misconduct.

In the aftermath of Simone Biles’s completely unexpected withdrawal from the team and individual events at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, US gymnast Sunisa Lee has stepped forward to tell Americans exactly what they want to hear from their Olympic competitors: that Team USA does not “owe anyone a gold medal.”

Simone Biles says that her unexpected withdrawal from the Olympics gymnastics competition on Tuesday wasn’t injury-related. Instead, she says she withdrew due to the emotional stress of being the “head star” of the Olympics.

TOKYO (AP) — Reigning Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles is out of the team finals after apparently suffering an injury during the vault.

A robot took the floor during halftime of the USA-France game and did the work that Team USA could not do for itself; it made shots.

The U.S. Men’s Basketball Team saw their 44-game Olympic win streak come to an end in their first game of the Tokyo Olympics, as they fell to France 83-76

First Lady Jill Biden arrived to cheer on the US swim team on Saturday but ended up getting cheered on herself as the American swimmers clapped and shouted “Dr. Biden! Dr. Biden!” as the swimmers prepared to race.

TOKYO (AP) — Belated and beleaguered, the virus-delayed Tokyo Summer Olympics finally opened Friday night with cascading fireworks and made-for-TV choreography that unfolded in a near-empty stadium, a colorful but strangely subdued ceremony that set a striking tone to match a unique pandemic Games.

TOKYO (AP) — Kara Eaker, an alternate on the United States women’s gymnastics team, has tested positive for COVID-19 in an Olympic training camp in Japan.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — These games don’t count. Right now, that is the only saving grace for USA Basketball.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — This is not how USA Basketball expected to open its Olympic summer.

U.S. Olympic swimmer Michael Andrew informed the press Thursday that he refused to take any of the coronavirus vaccines.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) says they have no authority to change the one-month suspension of U.S. Olympic runner Sha’Carri Richardson, because that power resides with the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Olympic runner Allyson Felix blasted Nike Thursday for having the gall to ask her to join its “female empowerment” ad campaign at the very same time they were cutting her salary and refusing to add maternity benefits to her contract after the birth of her first child.

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Pat Mahomes is no fan of USA Track & Field’s (USATF) decision to leave sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson off the Olympic roster.

Banned sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson was not on the Olympic roster released Tuesday by USA Track and Field, a decision that means the American champion’s positive test for marijuana will cost her a chance at running on the relay team in Tokyo, in addition to her spot in the 100-meter individual race.

Amid public outrage, a MoveOn petition calling for Sha’Carri Richardson to remain a participant in this month’s Olympic Games in Tokyo has received more than 500,000 signatures.

As anticipation grows for this month’s 2021 Summer Games in Tokyo, several expect those who take part to engage with protesting in a new way after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) relaxed restrictions on protests and political expression during the games.

Famed boxer George Foreman took to Twitter during the Independence Day holiday to tell fans that he is not ashamed to be an American.

U.S. Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry is taking heat for old tweets in which she criticized white, Asian, and Hispanic people.

Olympic runner Sha’Carri Richardson is taking “responsibility” for her actions in the wake of her one-month suspension due to a positive marijuana test.

A woman who escaped oppression in North Korea called Olympics protester Gwen Berry a “spoiled” person for turning her back on America.

Former Olympian and California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner called Gwen Berry’s anthem snub “disgusting.”

You’d never know it by looking at her now, but notorious anthem-snubbing Olympian Gwen Berry once stood proudly for the flag and anthem.

A foundation founded by Colin Kaepernick, a former NFL quarterback known for kneeling during the national anthem, has applauded U.S. Olympian Gwen Berry after she turned away from the American flag during the playing of the National Anthem after qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics during trials in Oregon.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has called for U.S. Olympic track and field athlete Gwen Berry to be removed from the team after she turned away from the American flag during the playing of the National Anthem after qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics during trials in Oregon.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) called for Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry to be removed from the U.S. Olympic team.

Reactions to Olympic athlete Gwen Berry continue to grow as many fans in the U.S. blast her for her latest anti-American tirade.

Olympic gold medal-winner Simone Biles has left sportswear giant Nike after a six-year contract and signed with Athleta.

Former Olympic swimmer Klete Keller was reportedly among the rally-goers last week after a small group broke into the U.S. Capitol.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin in 1968, died Wednesday. He was 86.

A young woman ran her first marathon Saturday at the Olympic Trials in Atlanta, Georgia, and qualified for the Tokyo Olympics.

The U.S. Olympic marathon trials have accepted the first transgender runner in the history of the event.

The brother of Olympic gold medal gymnast Simone Biles was charged with murder Thursday in connection with a triple homicide.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Olympic track cyclist Kelly Catlin, who helped the U.S. women’s pursuit team win the silver medal at the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016, died Friday at her home in California. She was 23.