Team USA secured its first-ever silver in the figure skating team event with 65 points, narrowly edging Japan's 63-point total. Team USA now sits in the 2022 Winter Olympics' top 10 for medals with ...

The advent of table tennis supposedly dates back to the late 1800s, when the wealthy Victorians in England created an indoor version of lawn tennis using items laying around the house to assemble a ...

American Carl Osburn is regarded as the best Olympic sharpshooter. He holds the record for most medals won at the Games with 11 medals. He competed in the Olympics from 1912–1924. No sport made a more ...

At the Olympics, all dives are scored by a panel of judges. The judges rate the execution (and synchronization, for synchro events) of every dive on a scale of 1-10, including half-point margins.

Each heat features up to eight riders on the course at one time. All riders start in designated gate positions with their front wheels placed against the gate. Once the starter gives the go-ahead to ...

The U.S. duo of Mary Tucker and Lucas Kozeniesky won silver as mixed team air rifle shooting made its Olympic debut Tuesday, dropping a tense final match 17-13 to China's Yang Qian and Yang Haoran. In ...

If there’s one thing the world’s top breakers agree on, it might be this: The newest sport at the Olympics is much more than just a sport. Breaking is a culture. Let Jeffrey Louis (aka “B-Boy Jeffro” ...

Sport climbing consists of three separate disciplines: speed, bouldering and lead. At the last Olympics, one single combined event was held that incorporated all three disciplines. For the 2024 ...

Billed as “the world’s premier indoor track and field event,” the Millrose Games have stood among the oldest athletic events in the U.S. Employees of the John Wanamaker Department Store founded the ...

The U.S. is once again entering the tournament as a medal contender, and the nation's history backs that up. The U.S. has almost twice as many shooting medals at the Olympics as any other nation.

A volleyball match begins when the ball is served into play. A team may touch the ball three times – not counting blocks – on its side of the net. The usual pattern is as follows: a dig (underarm pass ...