Simone Biles posted video of herself flipping off a trampoline at her family's Houston gym, and her own words about the 2028 Los Angeles Games have done nothing to quiet the speculation. The 29-year-old, who won three gold medals and a silver at the 2024 Paris Olympics, returned to World Champions Center in Houston and […] The post Simone Biles back in the gym, fueling 2028 Olympic comeback talk appeared first on American Almanac .
Simone Biles posted video of herself flipping off a trampoline at her family's Houston gym, and her own words about the 2028 Los Angeles Games have done nothing to quiet the speculation. The 29-year-old, who won three gold medals and a silver at the 2024 Paris Olympics, returned to World Champions Center in Houston and recorded herself launching flips into a foam pit. She posted the video to Instagram with the on-screen text "old girl, same tricks" and a caption that read, "scheduling a massage ASAP." An unnamed person filming the session asked if she was OK. Biles, breathing hard, answered plainly. "No, it feels like I just did a floor routine." She wrapped up the session with a declaration that left little doubt about the toll: "I'm…Open
Two years after her viral performance at the Paris Summer Olympics, Rachael Gunn aka "Raygun" says she finally found peace. Although she was the subject to worldwide backlash and online ridicule, she is owning her performance and moving forward, even starring in a new Netflix documentary.
Four-time Olympic alpine skier Chemmy Alcott landed in a French hospital with a collapsed lung and a chest drain after a mistimed front flip off a five-meter diving platform turned a holiday into an emergency. Alcott, 44, was vacationing in Annecy, France, when she attempted the flip and hit the water hard, landing feet-first. The […] The post British Olympic skier Chemmy Alcott hospitalized with collapsed lung after vacation diving mishap appeared first on American Almanac .
Four-time Olympic alpine skier Chemmy Alcott landed in a French hospital with a collapsed lung and a chest drain after a mistimed front flip off a five-meter diving platform turned a holiday into an emergency. Alcott, 44, was vacationing in Annecy, France, when she attempted the flip and hit the water hard, landing feet-first. The former Team GB skier, who competed in four Winter Olympics and served as a BBC commentator during the 2026 Games, shared video of the incident and her hospital stay on Instagram, along with a characteristically dry account of what went wrong. The impact collapsed one of her lungs. Doctors inserted a chest drain, a tube used to remove trapped air and fluid from the chest cavity, and Alcott spent multiple nights…Open
Many Olympic host cities have experienced cost overruns. For example, the Montreal 1976 games put in a bid for $360 million and had a final outturn cost of $2.9 billion. That’s an overrun of 720%.
By setting up a curling rink in the shadow of the Colosseum, sports officials hope to capitalize on the fresh popularity of the Winter Olympics phenomenon. Even in a heat wave and without any ice.
ChatGPT ai-generated illustration By Brian C. Joondeph On July 16, 1988, Florence Griffith-Joyner sprinted 100 meters in 10.49 seconds at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. Nearly four decades later, no woman has run faster. But ...
Team USA won a total of 33 medals at the Games in January, consisting of 12 gold medals, 12 silver medals and nine bronze. The team came in second in the total medal count at the Games, with Norway finishing first with 41 medals total.
World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka gave full-throated support to the Women's Tennis Association's new mandatory genetic testing policy, a move that makes the WTA the first professional sports league to screen players for biological sex. Sabalenka, the Belarusian four-time Grand Slam champion, addressed the policy at a press conference during the 2026 National Bank Open, […] The post Top-ranked women's tennis player backs WTA gene testing to protect fair competition appeared first on American Almanac .
World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka gave full-throated support to the Women's Tennis Association's new mandatory genetic testing policy, a move that makes the WTA the first professional sports league to screen players for biological sex. Sabalenka, the Belarusian four-time Grand Slam champion, addressed the policy at a press conference during the 2026 National Bank Open, telling reporters she welcomed the testing and urged the tour to hold the line. Her comments landed as international sports bodies from track and field to boxing have moved toward similar eligibility standards, and as the International Olympic Committee prepares its own sex-based screening ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games. The WTA's policy, which took effect July 21, requires…Open
Pochettino came on in 2024 to right the ship ahead of this year's World Cup, in which he led the team to a record three wins and helped ignite enthusiasm in millions of fans before a round of 16 exit.
