Tag: Olympics
Why flag football’s Olympics inclusion has been ‘rocket fuel’ for growth, especially among women
LAS VEGAS — Seventeen-year-old Maci Joncich sat in the bleachers at Coronado High School’s football stadium in Las Vegas on a spring day in...
Germany’s Lena Oberdorf to miss Paris Olympics with significant knee injury
Bayern Munich’s Lena Oberdorf will miss the 2024 Paris Olympics after sustaining a severe knee injury.The 22-year-old suffered a cruciate and medial collateral ligament...
USWNT 1-0 Mexico takeaways: How much is left to learn before the Olympics?
The U.S. women’s national team’s send-off series is more about learning than celebrating.For much of the first 45 minutes, the pregame celebration of the...
U.S. women’s water polo, with an unlikely hype man, eyes Olympic history — and change for the sport
Flavor Flav realizes it’s an unexpected crossover.The rap icon once had only a vague awareness of water polo, as he’d seen Olympic matches on...
Is women’s track the next sport ready to boom? Alexis Ohanian is betting on it
Follow our Olympics coverage in the lead-up to the Paris Games.Alexis Ohanian, at his first-ever track and field event, found himself transported. In seats close...
