LOS ANGELES — The private organizers of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles have hired a top Nike executive to help generate the money they need to balance their $6.9 billion budget.

John Slusher, who formerly oversaw global sports marketing for the sneaker giant, will become chief executive of LA28's commercial operation, the group ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With Los Angeles Olympics four years away and no detailed transportation plans yet, officials are concerned about a lack of money and time to create the "car free" Games that Mayor Karen Bass has promised.

Local officials have a litany of projects they want to complete ahead of 2028, from adding charging infrastructure to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Santa Monica officials say they are “very close” to reaching an agreement to host beach volleyball during the 2028 Summer Olympics, even though it might end up costing the city more than $12 million.

That worst-case scenario is outlined in a 36-page report issued Tuesday night, a week ahead of an Oct. 8 City Council meeting ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles is looking to overturn a decision that stripped her of her first individual Olympic medal.

Video footage shot for the Netflix docuseries "Simone Biles Rising" might help her do it.

Attorneys for Chiles filed an appeal Monday to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland looking to reverse a decision by ...Read more

Rachael Gunn, the Australian breakdancer who broke the internet with her performance at the 2024 Paris Games, has been ranked the best breaker in the world by the sport’s governing body.

Gunn — more widely known by her nickname, Raygun — failed to score a single point during her Olympics showing, landing her in second to last place, ahead...Read more

Hunter Woodhall, who made fans swoon by being a supportive husband as his wife won a gold medal at the Paris Olympics, clinched a gold medal of his own on Friday.

Woodhall won the men's 400-meter T62 final with a time of 46.36 seconds during the Paris Paralympics to complete the golden summer for the power couple who have cultivated a large fan...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The B-girl known as Raygun has apologized to Australia's breakdancing community for the negative reactions that followed her viral performance while representing the country at the Paris Olympics last month.

In the same interview, however, Rachael Gunn defended her qualifications to compete during breakdancing's debut as an ...Read more

"Horrific" is not a word you normally hear from an athlete who has just medaled in a big-time race.

"I'm going to be full-on honest," Christie Raleigh Crossley said. "Today was absolutely horrific."

The U.S. swimmer expressed dismay shortly after winning silver in the 50-meter freestyle at the 2024 Paralympic Games. She was responding to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Ezra Frech made history, extended his arms wide and flashed a knowing smirk to the cheering crowd. On an NBC interview after he soared to a world-record 1.97-meter high jump at the U.S. Paralympic trials, the budding superstar nonchalantly called it "all a part of the plan."

And this plan is only getting started.

Frech won't ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Darrell Doucette didn't play NCAA football.

He never played in the NFL.

But the 35-year-old New Orleans native thinks he's a better player than Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, a three-time Super Bowl champion and MVP.

In flag football, that is.

"I feel like I'm better than Patrick Mahomes because of my IQ of ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Is Joel Embiid one-and-done in representing Team USA in the Olympics?

After winning a men's basketball gold medal on Aug. 10 in Paris, the Philadelphia 76ers star center hinted he could play for another country for the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.

"It's been a good experience," Embiid said of the Olympics. "It's been a ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — There were nine former Kentucky Wildcats basketball players, men’s and women’s combined, competing in the Paris Olympics.

As impressive as that is, it is not farfetched to think there could be even more ex-Wildcats hooping it up in the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.

The roll call of former Kentucky players who played men�...Read more

Jordan Chiles said the International Olympic Committee’s request she return her Olympic bronze “feels unjust” in her first comments since the controversy over judges’ individual floor exercise scores.

USA Gymnastics’ latest appeal to keep Chiles’ Olympic bronze medal was denied, but the organization pledged to keep fighting on her ...Read more

She may have mimicked a kangaroo and performed other laughable moves during breakdancing's Olympic debut last week, but the Australian B-girl known as Raygun says her performance wasn't a joke.

"I went out there and I had fun," Rachael Gunn, a 36-year-old Sydney university professor, said in a video posted Thursday morning on Instagram, six ...Read more

New York Mets closer Edwin Diaz was transfixed by the men’s gold-medal basketball game over the weekend. He watched as Steph Curry drained a flurry of 3s in the final three minutes of play against France.

As Diaz watched the game’s top players standing on the podium wearing their gold medals, he couldn’t help but think of how it would ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Like any world-class gymnast, Jordan Chiles is familiar with contortions and flips. But what she has endured since giving her all in the floor exercise at the Paris Olympics makes the most difficult routine seem like child's play.

The latest: It appears that the head of the three-person Court of Arbitration for Sport panel that ...Read more

Mallory Swanson loves to talk, always has a twinkle in her eye and doesn't so much walk as she does skip.

Alyssa Naeher has none of those traits. In fact, she and Swanson are as different as fire and ice.

Yet when the whistle sounded on the U.S. women's soccer team's 1-0 win over Brazil in last Saturday's gold-medal game at the Paris Olympics,...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — When Kentucky Wildcats athletes, current and former, combined three years ago to win 10 medals in the Tokyo Olympics, it stood as one of the proudest moments in University of Kentucky sports history.

With that very high bar to clear entering the 2024 Paris Olympics, ex-Cats sports stars went to France and did something ...Read more

The 2024 U.S. Men’s Basketball team > The Dream Team?

If I saw you suggesting before the Paris Olympics that this year’s American squad was greater than 1992’s, my reaction was visceral and immediate: You’re going to need to show your work on that calculation.

That they’d need to show it, the members of this year’s star-studded ...Read more

If Stanford and Cal merged as a country — only slightly less likely than them joining the Atlantic Coast Conference — the two eternal rivals would have been the seventh-most successful country in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Yes, you read that right.

Athletes who attended the elite Bay Area universities combined to win 43 medals, ...Read more