Phone deal for visiting fans at 2026 World Cup part of Verizon sponsor pact with FIFA
Soccer fans arriving in North America for the 2026 World Cup have been promised help with their cell phone coverage
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Soccer fans arriving in North America for the 2026 World Cup have been promised help with their cell phone coverage
Saudi Arabia and the IOC are teaming up for their first commercial deal together with the oil-rich kingdom set to host the first Esports Olympics next year
Women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics has highlighted the complexity of drafting and enforcing sex eligibility rules for women's sports and how athletes like Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan are left vulnerable in the fallout
The founder of the modern Olympics and former IOC president, Pierre de Coubertin, once said women competing in the Games would be “impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and improper.”
Two former Olympic champions are in the race to be the next IOC president
The Olympics will always have Paris
IOC President Thomas Bach says the “hate speech” directed at two women boxers at the Paris Olympics is “totally unacceptable.”
A gold medal was finally won at the Paris Olympics by one of the neutral collective of athletes
Canadian figure skaters will not join the United States and Japan on the podium at the Paris Olympics next week
Saudi Arabia has detailed a massive stadium building project to host the 2034 World Cup in men’s soccer
Canada has lost its appeal against the deduction of six competition points following a drone-spying scandal in the Olympic women’s soccer tournament
As expected, Salt Lake City will be an Olympics host again after the IOC formally awarded the 2034 Winter Games to the United States bid
The Albanian soccer federation says UEFA banned its player Mirlind Daku on Sunday for two games at the European Championships after leading fans in nationalist chants
The IOC has approved 14 athletes from Russia and 11 Belarusians with neutral status to compete at the Paris Olympics in a first list from five sports published Saturday
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has failed in her challenge against World Aquatics rules that stop her from competing in elite women’s races
Track and field's World Athletics has announced a new global championships that promises $150,000 prizes for gold medalists
The boxing governing body declared rogue by the International Olympic Committee says it will pay $50,000 in prize money to each gold medalist at the Paris Games
FIFA has been urged by international lawyers to uphold its own policy and scrutinize Saudi Arabia’s human rights record before picking the kingdom to host the men’s 2034 World Cup
FIFA will urge all 211 national federations to make racist abuse a disciplinary offense
A grounded airline in Australia
The IOC has suspended former Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad of Kuwait for 15 years after his conviction for forgery was upheld on appeal this year at a Swiss criminal appeals court
The world’s top anti-doping regulator says after reviewing a documentary and other media reports that it stands by its decision to clear 23 Chinese swimmers to compete at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics despite testing positive for a banned heart medication
Calls for action against Israel in international soccer because of the conflict with Hamas will be stepped up by Palestinian officials at the annual FIFA congress next month
The Russia figure skating team still stands to get bronze medals from the 2022 Beijing Olympics despite the disqualification of Kamila Valieva in a doping case
The International Olympic Committee says some Russian athletes will be allowed to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics