In an interview with CNN, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass urged Casey Wasserman to resign as the head of the LA28 Olympic committee.

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The word "Olympics" is rooted in ancient Greece. In Greek mythology, the gods would descend from Mount Olympus into the town of Olympia to gather and socialize with humans, according to Matthew Llewellyn, co-director of the Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research at California State University, Fullerton.

The 2026 Winter Olympics are bringing thousands of athletes from around the world together for more than two weeks of competition — and the Games are a gold mine for statistics.

Moments after her win, Leerdam pulled down the zip on her orange and blue skating suit, which showed a white Nike sports bra underneath — a move which marketing experts say could have earned her a hefty $1 million payday, thanks to her sponsorship with the sportswear brand.

MILAN (AP) — Athletes at the Milan Cortina Winter Games elected a South Korean bobsled pilot and an Estonian biathlete on Thursday to represent them at the International Olympic Committee. The eight-year terms for Yunjong Won and Johanna Talihärm will include voting with IOC members to pick a host for the 2036 Summer Games.

The carbon footprint of the Olympic Games remains substantial, despite reforms by the International Olympic Committee. A new study by the University of Lausanne shows that the Olympic model needs further reform to comply with the Paris Agreement and outlines possible courses of action.

At the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, the Russian Olympic Committee team was stripped of their gold medals after 15-year-old Kamila Valieva failed a drug test and was handed a four-year ban. Her coach, Eteri Tutberidze, has long served in the same role for Petrosian, who also shares the same choreographer and training site in Moscow as Valieva.