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    Tanner Walters

    Tanner Walters

  • Where will the Olympics be in 2018 and beyond?

    The Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games, held in a mountainous region of South Korea, will open in February 2018. The Rio Games are just wrapping up but it’s never too early to think about where the world will be turning its attention to next, especially since there are less than 18 months until the cauldron is lit in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Following two failed attempts to host the 2010 and 2014 Games, Pyeongchang finally secured South Korea’s first Winter Olympics in history.

  • Rio police seize passports, laptops of Irish officials in investigation

    Bangu Prison in Rio de Janeiro, where Olympic Council of Ireland President Pat Hickey is being held. An ongoing investigation into an Olympic ticket scalping scandal has led Brazilian police to raid the Ireland Olympic Committee’s office Sunday, seizing passports, phones and laptops. Members of the Olympic Council of Ireland have been ordered to report to local police for questioning early next week.

  • Kyle Snyder wins gold, becomes youngest U.S. Olympic wrestling champion ever

    American wrestler Kyle Snyder is used to being first. Three years ago, he became the youngest to win a junior world wrestling championship. Last year he rattled off a stunning string of victories to become the youngest world champion in U.S. history.

  • U.S. boxer Claressa Shields makes history, wins second Olympic gold

    If Claressa Shields was anything coming into the 2016 Olympics, it was confident. “I definitely feel like I’m the best fighter here, male or female,” the 21-year-old American boxer said midway through the Rio Games. Shields delivered in the gold medal match Sunday, taking down middleweight Nouchka Fontijn of the Netherlands to repeat as Olympic champion.

  • Epic comeback sends U.S. men’s volleyball to the medal podium

    Taylor Sander and Matt Anderson of the U.S. celebrate during the bronze medal match. In a tournament that had just about everything for the U.S. men’s volleyball team – dominant wins and dramatic collapses alike – Sunday morning offered something new for the Americans: a rain-soaked walk to the Maracanazinho. Fortunately for Team USA, the match itself brought yet another epic comeback that offered redemption in a wild Olympics.

  • Report: U.S. swimmer Jimmy Feigen to pay $11,000 to avoid prosecution

    The drama continues in Brazil, where one of the four American swimmers engulfed in controversy still remains. Jimmy Feigen, the only swimmer involved in the alleged Rio robbery earlier in the week who has not returned to the United States, has agreed to contribute $11,000 to a Brazilian charity in an attempt to resolve the ongoing international incident, according to an ABC News report early Friday morning. Feigen’s lawyer in Rio announced the agreement after meeting with a judge and officials from Brazil’s prosecuting ministry for four hours Thursday.

  • British television presenter out of coma, 'nearly died' in Rio

    Television personality Charlie Webster in a photo she posted from her Rio hospital bed. Charlie Webster, a sports media personality in the UK, was brought out of a weeklong induced coma Thursday, according to her family.

  • Top five moments from Day 13 at the Olympics

    Ashton Eaton made it clear over two days of competition that he is still the “world’s greatest athlete” – and he did so in dominant fashion. With 8,893 points, Eaton won the exhausting 10-event competition, becoming the first U.S. athlete to become a repeat gold medalist in the event since 1952, when Bob Mathias won twice in a row. Eaton took the lead on Wednesday – Day 2 – in the long jump, with a mark of over 26 feet.

  • Reports: Irish IOC chief Patrick Hickey arrested in Rio

    Patrick Hickey, an executive member of the International Olympic Committee, speaks at a conference in 2015. Rio de Janeiro authorities arrested IOC executive committee member Patrick Hickey on Wednesday morning, according to multiple reports. The head of the European Olympic committee is being accused of illegally scalping tickets for the Summer Games currently being held in Rio.

  • Weightlifting official guarantees bans on Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia after Rio

    A weightlifter from Kazakhstan reacts during the men’s 105kg competition at the Olympics. The International Weightlifting Federation will place a one-year ban on all weightlifters from Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan following the Rio Olympics, the body president said in an interview with AFP. Tamas Ajan, who has led the federation since 2000, was blunt in his remarks, saying that the bans should be formally announced within two months, along with the possibility of at least four more countries joining the list.

  • Brazil endures topsy-turvy Tuesday at the Olympics

    Tuesday was not an easy day for Brazil. It’s not unusual for a country – especially one with as many top athletes as Brazil – to have a day of ups and downs, but Tuesday stood out for a number of reasons. For another, Brazil has underperformed halfway through the 2016 Games.

  • Top five moments from Day 11 of the Olympics

    54-year-old Argentinean sailor Santiago Lange celebrates with his sailing partner Cecilia Carranza Saroli. Argentinean sailor Santiago Lange has done a lot in his life. The 54-year-old, along with sailing partner Cecilia Carranza Saroli, took the top spot in the Nacra 17 Mixed Multihull to bring some more hardware in his sixth career Olympic appearance.

  • The history of the Karolyi gymnastics coaching legacy

    Marta Karolyi is just days from retirement – two weeks from her 74th birthday – but the U.S. women’s gymnastics program doesn’t need any absence to make the heart grow fonder than it already is. All it takes is a trip down memory lane to understand why American gymnasts absolutely revere both Marta and her husband, Bela Karolyi. Other names have come and gone – Nadia Comaneci, Mary Lou Retton, Carly Patterson, Nastia Liukin, the Magnificent Seven, the Fierce Five – but the coaches who helped those talented women rise to international prominence remained constant.

  • The history behind the Karolyi gymnastics coaching legacy

    Marta Karolyi is just days from retirement – two weeks from her 74th birthday – but the U.S. women’s gymnastics program doesn’t need any absence to make the heart grow fonder than it already is. All it takes is a trip down memory lane to understand why American gymnasts absolutely revere both Marta and her husband, Bela Karolyi. Other names have come and gone – Nadia Comaneci, Mary Lou Retton, Carly Patterson, Nastia Liukin, the Magnificent Seven, the Fierce Five – but the coaches who helped those talented women rise to international prominence remained constant.

  • Michael Phelps: 30 medals in Tokyo? 'I don’t think so'

    Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Michael Phelps is retiring. Phelps went on Facebook Live for nearly an hour Saturday afternoon to answer some questions, including his future as an international swimmer. Recently, fellow swimming superstar Ryan Lochte fueled the rumors that Phelps’ impending retirement may not be so permanent.

  • Mystery solved: How Olympic photographers capture incredible underwater shots

    Technology is taking Olympic photography to new heights – from far below the surface.

  • Olympic officials to Iranian fan: Take down sign or leave

    Security personnel at the Olympics threatened to eject an Iranian volleyball fan for holding a large sign protesting the fact that women are banned from attending matches in Iran. Darya Safai, an activist whose sign read “Let Iranian Women Enter Their Stadiums,” told The Associated Press that she was sitting in the front row when officials told her to either put the banner away or she would be asked to leave Saturday’s match between Iran and Egypt in men’s volleyball. The International Olympic Committee does not allow political statements at the Games.

  • Throwback photos: The Clintons at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics

    The last time the Summer Olympics were on American soil, Bill Clinton was a few short months from being re-elected to a second term as president of the United States. Take a look at these photos from 20 years ago, as Clinton descended upon Atlanta with Hillary and their then-16-year-old daughter Chelsea.

  • It burns! It burns! Treated Rio water stings water polo players

    Bret Bonanni of the U.S. men’s water polo team takes a shot against France in Rio’s green water. When a pair of Rio pools suddenly turned a deep green color earlier this week, Olympic officials rushed to assure competitors that the change in appearance would have no adverse health effects. “I could barely open my eyes for the final quarter,” said Tony Azevedo, the U.S. men’s water polo team captain after Team USA’s victory over France on Wednesday.

  • Meet the German beach volleyball player whose hat has a history of its own

    Lars Fluggen, a German beach volleyball player, competes in pool play of the 2016 Olympics. Lars Fluggen probably isn’t trying to make a fashion statement every time he steps on the sand, but the 26-year-old beach volleyball player is still turning heads.