Sophia Smith Wilson is pregnant! The Olympic gold medalist, 24, is expecting her first baby with her husband, Arizona Cardinals' wide receiver, Michael Wilson , 25, announcing the happy news with a joint post on Instagram . In the photos, the college sweethearts posed together, with Smith Wilson wearing a gray skirt with a white crop top and Wilson donning blue jeans and a white crew neck. One shot showed Smith Wilson holding the sonogram strip as she leaned against Wilson, who was smiling down at her. The other showed...

Jordan Chiles is reflecting on the complicated mix of emotions she felt when she narrowly missed her shot at an individual all-around medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics . During the qualifying round, the gymnast, 23, finished in fourth place with a score of 56.065, just .067 points behind her U.S. teammate Suni Lee , who earned a score of 56.132. Simone Biles came in first place with a score of 59.566. The only non-U.S. athlete to rank higher than Chiles and Lee was Brazil's Rebeca Andrade , who logged...

Chrissi Rawak, named CEO of USA Swimming last week, will no longer assume that role, the organization announced Friday night. It attributed the stunning reversal to “unforeseen personal circumstances.” “While this outcome is not what we expected or hoped for, we maintain the utmost confidence in the strength of our organization, leadership team, staff and strategic direction,” USA Swimming’s board of directors said in a statement. The statement said the board learned of the unspecified circumstances late this week. Chief Financial Officer Shana Ferguson, who had been filling in as...

Carissa Moore is officially a mom! The Olympic surfer , 32, and husband Luke Untermann welcomed their first baby together, daughter Olena Lililehua Untermann, on Monday, Feb. 24, announcing the exciting news on Instagram . One photo showed her newborn swaddled in a blanket on her lap with her eyes closed. The other picture featured the newly minted mom with a huge smile on her face, as her daughter lay on her chest. "Our little squish is here " she wrote in the caption. "‘Olena Lililehua Untermann born 2/24/25 at...

As countless locals fled the French capital in the lead-up to last year’s Olympic games, actor and filmmaker Valentine Cadic hunkered down, putting her hands on a camera, assembling a small crew and then running headlong into the rush to shoot “That Summer in Paris.” Film screens Feb. 15 in the Berlin Film Festival’s Perspectives section. Building on her background in documentary — and taking inspiration from Justine Triet’s debut, “Age of Panic,” which worked in a similar vein — Cadic wrung fiction from fact, using the crowds and fan-zones...

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It's the fastest man in the world vs. the fastest man on the gridiron! After a series of public jabs at one another, Olympic gold medalist Noah Lyles and Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill will officially race one another. "This has been an ongoing thing for, quite some time now, and I mean, everybody's seen the back and forth on social media," says Hill, 30, who said in August that he could beat Lyles — the reigning Olympic gold medalist in the 100-meter — in a race. "I've been very...

PARIS — Algeria boxer Imane Khelif, who found herself in the middle of a bitter divide about gender in sports during the Paris Olympics, has denounced “false and offensive” accusations from the International Boxing Association. “I have been knocked down more times than I can count. But I have never stayed down,” Khelif said late Tuesday on her Instagram account. The IBA said this week it will file criminal complaints against the International Olympic Committee in the U.S., France and Switzerland. The Swiss-based IOC allowing female boxers Khelif and Lin...

There was a looming media question that hung over the 2024 Olympics in Paris as the world arrived in the French capital: Could the Olympics get its groove back? Prior to Paris, Olympic viewership had tumbled significantly in recent cycles, including a disastrous 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, which averaged 11.4 million across all NBC Universal platforms, the least-watched Olympics in the modern era. But Paris changed that. The 2024 Summer Olympics averaged a whopping 30.7 million viewers per day, the most-watched Olympics since London in 2012. There is important context....

NBC Sports will broadcast the next Winter Olympics from Milan, Italy, but the proceedings are going to have more than a soupcon of plans used recently in Paris, France. The Comcast-backed outlet plans to make every contest available to view on the company’s Peacock streaming hub, while broadcasting at least five hours of coverage every day on the NBC broadcast network. When it comes to primetime, NBC will curate a special nighttime show that offers highlights, analysis and features around the athletes and their activity. The company clearly hopes that...