Dan Wolken

The Olympics has a Russia problem heading toward 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles As the 2026 Games head toward the finish line, new questions arise about Russia's place in the Olympics.

The Olympics has a Russia problem — again — as we head toward the 2028 Games in LA

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Winter Olympics: Ski mountaineering makes no sense ... and it's sort of awesome Skimo made its Olympic debut. Time will tell if it sticks around for another Winter Games.

SkiMo made its Olympics debut on Thursday!

As a sport, it makes absolutely no sense. And it was pretty awesome!

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Why would the IOC make available a T-shirt commemorating Adolf Hitler's Olympics? The International Olympic Committee has quietly removed the link to a t-shirt in its online store commemorating the 1936 Berlin Games that were held in Nazi Germany.

The IOC has quietly removed all traces of a controversial T-shirt commemorating Hitler’s 1936 Olympics in Berlin from its online store after it garnered significant attention over the weekend.

Why are they selling Nazi memorabilia in the first place?

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Why basketball should be in the Winter Olympics The Summer Olympics simply doesn't need basketball, but the Winter Games could use the star power.

One of my hottest (and best) takes: It’s time to move basketball to the Winter Olympics.

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Elana is great but that event was 5 hours away from where I’m stationed and running concurrent with an event a lot of people had interest in so I personally could not do it.

Winter Olympics 2026: Eileen Gu won a silver medal in freeski big air. The better story is Canada's Mighty Meg, who won gold Megan Oldham's Olympic dreams began by skiing off the roof of the family garage.

As usual, Eileen Gu was the center of attention for the Big Air finals. But the unmatched toughness of “Mighty Meg” Oldham turned out to be the story of the night.

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I understand that. From an American context I think of it more as “It doesn’t matter what the rules are there because they don’t really apply to me.”

As I remember she wasn’t really defending it as a policy she just said something kinda flippant about “just get a VPN” which is about the most American thing you could say

Eileen Gu may compete for China, but the only entity she truly represents is Eileen Gu, Inc. The American-born Gu has become a lightning rod for political outrage, but really what she's doing is playing the system for all it's worth.

Eileen Gu may compete for China — fact that generates a lot of takes on social media.

But the only entity she truly represents is Eileen Gu, Inc.

My @yahoosports.bsky.social column

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Ilia Malinin’s meltdown proved the point: Winning Olympic gold isn’t supposed to be easy It’s because the Olympics are so hard that anybody cares in the first place.

Everyone has a theory for the Malinin Meltdown.

But trying to diagnose it misses the point. Sometimes we simply need to see failure to understand what true greatness means.

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The Olympics has a new judging controversy in figure skating.

It happens every time.

Is AI judging the answer? Can it transform the way all sports are officiated?

Jeremy Bloom believes so - and has built a company trying to prove it.

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Winter Olympics 2026: Chloe Kim, facing the weight of expectation, stunned in halfpipe final South Korea's Gaon Choi stomped her final run to end Kim's Olympic reign.

Chloe Kim was on the cusp of history. She ended up passing the baton.

My column on a dramatic and emotional night in Livigno, where tough-as-nails 17-year old Gaon Choi ended Kim’s eight-year Olympic halfpipe reign.

“It’s such a full circle moment”

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Winter Olympics 2026: Has the United States finally found the heir to Shaun White? Seventeen-year-old Alessandro Barbieri enters the men’s halfpipe finals as the best American hope since White.

Is 17-year old Alessandro Barbieri the American heir to Shaun White’s halfpipe throne?

He’s got the charisma and the tricks - and may even have the goods to snag a medal on Friday.

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Photo finish, shock DQ and a 44-year-old charging on: Snowboard cross delivers pure Olympic chaos From an American perspective, it was equal parts inspiring and maddening.

A photo finish, a shock DQ and a 44-year-old charging on: Snowboard cross delivered pure Olympic chaos Thursday.

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Nick Baumgartner won a gold medal at 40, came back at 44 and is thinking about making the Olympics in Salt Lake at 52.

A man truly doing it for the love of the game.

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'You're always working on something new': How Olympians come up with new tricks From conception to practice and then more practice, skiers and snowboarders can take years to perfect a new maneuver.

How do snowboarders and freeskiers come up with their tricks?

A lot goes into it before they ever hit the snow.

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Winter Olympics 2026: Elizabeth Lemley flies to gold in moguls Americans go 1-2 as Jaelin Kauf takes silver.

Liz Lemley is a thrill seeker, a pilot and a “silent assassin.”

She’s also a 20-year old from Colorado who pulled a huge upset to win the gold medal in women’s moguls

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Winter Olympics: Switzerland's Mathilde Gremaud bests Eileen Gu in epic freeski slopestyle showdown The two finished 1-2, just as they did four years ago in Beijing.

Eileen Gu says she has nothing to prove at these Olympics. But she didn’t compete that way in the best slopestyle competition women’s skiing has ever seen. sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...

How do Olympic athletes measure the risk of injury vs. the reward of a gold meal? In the aftermath of Lindsey Vonn's crash, it's natural to wonder whether she took on too much risk. It's a question many Olympic athletes have to ask themselves.

Many of the Winter Olympic sports are dangerous, but athletes don’t process risk like you and me.

That doesn’t mean they’re reckless.

In the wake of Lindsey Vonn’s crash, here’s my deep dive on how these athletes approach competitions that could kill them.

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Lindsey Vonn went for it. Who are we to second-guess? Vonn has lived her life audaciously, and Sunday we saw an all-time skiing talent trying desperately, maybe too desperately, to win a race the rest of us just wanted her to finish.

It ended disastrously and gruesomely, with images and sounds that will be hard to shake. But who are we to second guess Lindsey Vonn for trying?

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They are super relevant to those guys. That’s what they grew up on. That’s their community.

Winter Olympics 2026: Bryce Bennett didn't win a medal, but he still got everything he wanted Three Olympics came and went with no medals for Bennett. But on Saturday, in his final Olympic event, he didn’t care.

In America, only gold gets the glory.

But skier Bryce Bennett showed Saturday you can end your career without a medal and still have everything you wanted.

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Winter Olympics 2026: The Olympians who didn't grow up dreaming of being Olympians For some snowboarders and freeskiers, the X Games — not the Olympics — was the pinnacle.

A shift is taking place within snowboarding and freestyle skiing.

Born out of X Games counterculture, embracing the Olympics took time. But now there’s a real debate in those communities: Has the Olympics become the pinnacle of their sports?

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He’s been on the floor two minutes and made three just awful mistakes

Why wasn't Curt Cignetti hired by a blue blood? 'Biggest f-up ever' Now that Curt Cignetti has shown how good of a coach he is, it's easy for many ADs to second-guess themselves.

Could other programs have been Indiana if they’d rolled the dice on Curt Cignetti when he was at James Madison? Some ADs have regrets.

“Biggest f-up ever.”

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After Indiana's brutal semifinal beatdown of Oregon, can Miami stop this freight train? Fernando Mendoza and the Hoosiers have once again laid waste to one of the best teams in college football. And only one remains.

Indiana is an inevitable freight train rolling toward history. Can Miami stop it? sports.yahoo.com/college-foot...

While some college coaches have adapted to new era, others are still stuck in the past College sports is in an upheaval. Some, like Baylor's Scott Drew, have embraced the new world order and been criticized. Others, like Clemson's Dabo Swinney, have stuck to their old-school ways and se...

There are many similarities in the career arcs of Dabo Swinney and Scott Drew. But with college sports in the midst of massive change, they now stand on opposite ends of the spectrum in how to deal with it. It hasn’t inoculated either one from criticism. My column: sports.yahoo.com/college-foot...

'Hollow and unserious': Aryna Sabalenka vs Nick Kyrgios is not Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs Dubbed the 'Battle of the Sexes,' Sabalenka vs. Kyrgios is nothing more than a cynical cash grab.

The new “Battle of thr Sexes” is a disgrace.
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After years of coaching flubs, Michigan is hitting bull's-eye with Kyle Whittingham hire Following the Sherrone Moore debacle, the full culture reset Whittingham will provide is just what Michigan needs.

There were a bunch of ways Michigan’s coaching search could have ended badly. Instead, they upgraded - hugely - with Kyle Whittingham. Competence wins. sports.yahoo.com/college-foot...

'This s*** is crazy' — Baylor's addition of James Nnaji further blurs line between pro and college hoops The combination of schools looking for players outside the traditional recruiting realm and judges eroding the NCAA’s ability to enforce eligibility rules has led everyone here, whether they like it o...

With Baylor adding a former NBA Draft pick to its roster this week, the line between pro and college continues to blur. Can the NCAA stop the progression toward full-fledged NBA players coming back to college? Should they even try? sports.yahoo.com/mens-college...