When Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, sits down for his traditional pre-Games news conference on Thursday…
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Perhaps no moment better exemplified the mounting pressure — and its slight alleviation — on the United States men’s national…
Robin Herman, who as a hockey reporter for The New York Times broke a gender barrier when she became one…
The N.C.A.A. said Wednesday that it was uncertain whether a new U.S.A. Swimming policy for transgender athletes, which increases the…
Washington, meet the Commanders. Nearly two years after dropping its longtime name and logo under pressure, the Washington Football Team…
BEIJING — The strategy is audacious and stifling, and that is very much the point. To Chinese officials, the creation…
The Washington Football Team, which had used a name more akin to a soccer club as a stand-in to shift…
So many details of Tom Brady’s career seem fanciful enough to sound apocryphal. In 20 full seasons as a starter,…
Brian Flores, who was fired as coach of the Miami Dolphins last month and was rejected for new jobs with…
Desireé LeSassier’s phone wouldn’t stop chiming. She had landed in Minneapolis about an hour before, on the Los Angeles Lakers’…