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Athletics - World Athletics Indoor Championships - Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports Park, Nanjing, China - March 22, 2025 Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen celebrates with his national flag after winning the men's 3000m Final REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen is on a mission to be ‘recognized as the best runner to exist’
LEXINGTON, KY - APRIL 27: Heath Ryan from Lochinvar, New South Wales, Australia atop Flame competes in the Dressage Phase of the 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event at the Kentucky Horse Park April 27, 2007 in Lexington, Kentucky. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
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Australian Olympic dressage rider suspended after video appears to show him repeatedly whipping horse
Karsten Warholm wins the 300m Hurdles Men race in a New World Record time of 32:67 during the Bislett Games, part of the 2025 Diamond League in Oslo, Norway, on June 12, 2025.
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Karsten Warholm breaks his own world best 300-meter hurdles time
Canada's Summer McIntosh pictured celebrating during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh smashes 400m freestyle world record
The 2026 men's FIFA World Cup trophy is visible behind US President Donald Trump as he speaks with reporters before signing two executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on February 4.
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Trump’s travel ban allows athletes from affected nations into US for the World Cup and Olympics. Fans may be stuck at home
Gabby Thomas during the Grand Slam Track in Philadelphia on Saturday.
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Betting site bans individual over heckling incident with Olympic champion sprinter Gabby Thomas
Not holding back: Neither Lindsey Vonn nor Eileen Gu are scared to fail at the Olympics
Former Olympic cyclist Rohan Dennis receives suspended sentence over wife’s death
Josaia Raisuqe, Olympic rugby silver medalist from Paris 2024, dies at age 30 in road accident
Olympic swim great Gary Hall Jr. awarded 10 medals to replace those destroyed in LA fires
Katie Ledecky breaks 800m freestyle world record almost a decade after last setting it
Breaking records, Olympic gold and a music debut: Mondo Duplantis talks exclusively with CNN about ‘life-changing’ year
Olympic gold medalist Rebeca Andrade says viral podium moment with Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles still ‘gives me goosebumps’
Simone Biles, Mondo Duplantis win big at 25th Anniversary Laureus World Sports Awards
Los Angeles 2028 Olympics will feature mixed-gender golf event, as new venues confirmed for Games
Trinity Rodman proves star credentials on goalscoring return to US women’s team

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<p>It's been just over a month since Lindsey Vonn made history. A second-place finish in a super-G race in Idaho saw her become the oldest female Alpine skier – by six years – to make the podium of a World Cup race. It was a deeply emotional moment as she ended her comeback season following her dramatic decision to come out of retirement. Vonn had originally called time on her career in 2019 but a partial knee replacement gave the 40-year-old a new lease of life on the slopes with eyes now firmly focused on next year's Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina. Vonn, appearing alongside fellow Olympians Eileen Gu and Maria Höfl-Riesch at a CNN panel at the Laureus World Sports Awards, has been telling CNN's Amanda Davies that the journey to get back to the top was one of the most challenging of her career.</p>
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FILE - In this April 20, 1991, file photo, heavyweight challenger George Foreman, center, is tended by veteran trainer Angelo Dundee, left, and former light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore during a title fight against Evander Holyfield in Atlantic City. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)
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<p>Thomas Bach, the outgoing President of the International Olympic Committee, speaks exclusively to CNN Sports' Amanda Davies about the Russian doping scandal and his relationship with Vladimir Putin.</p>
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Simone Biles performs on the balance beam during the individual all-around competition at the Paris Olympics on Thursday, August 1.
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Gallery In pictures: Simone Biles wins Olympic all-around

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The participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes has been one of the major talking points leading up to this year's Olympic Games.
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Can Russians and Belarusians compete at the Paris Olympics? Individual Neutral Athletes explained
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‘The eyes of the world are on this race’. Paris Olympics’ triathlon hangs in the balance over E. Coli levels in the Seine
BELGRADE, SERBIA - MARCH 19: Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine UKR looks on prior to the Women's High Jump on Day Two of the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 2022 at Belgrade Arena on March 19, 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images for World Athletics)
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‘When I see Russian athletes … I see every city destroyed,’ says Ukrainian high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh
India's Neeraj Chopra competes in the men's javelin throw final during the Diamond League athletics meeting at Stadion Letzigrund stadium in Zurich on August 31, 2023. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Neeraj Chopra has gained unlikely stardom in India. If he wins another Olympic gold, he will be ‘treated like God’
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‘Breaking has total freedom for me,’ says Menno van Gorp, a medal hopeful in the newest Olympic sport
Bill May, of the United States, walks along the pool deck at the World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Saturday, July 15, 2023. Largely unnoticed by the general public, men have been participating in artistic swimming, formerly known as synchronized swimming, for decades. (AP Photo/Nick Didlick)
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Excluded from the Olympics for his whole career, artistic swimmer Bill May set for ‘beautiful’ debut at this year’s Games
Armand Duplantis of Team Sweden competes in the Men's Pole Vault Final on Day Three of the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 2024 at Emirates Arena on March 03, 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Mondo Duplantis aims for ‘dominance’ in ‘freaky sport’ of pole vault after breaking the world record multiple times

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Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas talks with the media outside of the stakes barn at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on May 10, 2021.
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Hall of Fame horse trainer D. Wayne Lukas, a winner of 15 Triple Crown races, dies at 89
Detroit Pistons guard Malik Beasley looks on during a game against the Miami Heat in Miami on March 19.
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NBA free agent Malik Beasley under investigation regarding gambling allegations, AP source says
Paris Saint-Germain's Joao Neves celebrates after scoring the opening goal of FIFA Club World Cup round of 16 match aganst Inter Miami at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
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European champion PSG knocks out Lionel Messi, Inter Miami in convincing fashion to advance to Club World Cup quarterfinal
Lando Norris cut Oscar Piastri's lead at the top of the drivers' championship to 15 points on Sunday.
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Lando Norris fends off Oscar Piastri to win thrilling Austrian GP after Max Verstappen crashes out in first lap
Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca criticized the two-hour delay that punctuated his team's 4-1 win over Benfica.
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Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca critcizes weather delays at Club World Cup and questions US hosting the competition
Shohei Ohtani's pitch to Vinnie Pasquantino clocked in at 101.7 mph.
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Shohei Ohtani throws fastest pitch of MLB career in third mound start for Los Angeles Dodgers
CHICAGO, IL - CIRCA 1970's: Outfielder Dave Parker #39 of the Pittsburgh Pirates swings and watches the flight of his ball against the Chicago Cubs during a circa 1970's Major League Baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois. Parker played for the Pirates from 1973-83. (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images)
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Dave Parker, hard-hitting outfielder nicknamed ‘the Cobra,’ dies at 74
Los Angeles Angels manager Ron Washington looks on from the dugout during a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles in Baltimore, Saturday, June 14, 2025.
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‘Forget about the baseball stuff, just get healthy’: Angels manager Ron Washington to miss season, unspecified issue