Bella Sims has learned to manage not only her time at the University of Florida, but the immense expectations placed on her by the U.S. swimming community.
Olympics
The Raiders have several international players on their roster, which made for some lively debate about the announcement that NFL players could compete at the 2028 Olympics.
Retton was 16 years old when she became an icon of the U.S. Olympic movement during her gold medal-winning performance at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles.
Orleans Arena has hosted major curling events for a decade, but now a nonprofit plans to renovate a south Las Vegas building and use it to grow the Olympic sport.
A Las Vegas swimmer was the youngest member of the U.S. team at the 2020 Olympics at 15 years old. Now, she’s headed to the Paris Olympics in 2024.
Amanda Bingson hammered out danger and hammered out warning. Then the former Silverado High and UNLV product hammered out a new American record in the women’s hammer throw, twirling and tossing the 8.82-pound ball and chain from a field just north of historic Drake Stadium to a field just south of Sioux Falls.
Last time, it was pizza in a Chicago hotel lobby that convinced him to come back. This time, it was pasta in a Las Vegas restaurant.
He won six gold medals of a possible eight at the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona — only Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz won more in a single Olympics — and is considered one of the greatest gymnasts of all time. But you wouldn’t know this from visiting the Vitaly Scherbo School of Gymnastics at 3250 N. Bronco St., a mile east of the Cheyenne exit off the 95 freeway.
As much as amateur wrestling would like to avoid politics, it has no choice but to engage in them if it wants to remain in the Olympics beyond 2016.
Did you know that Abe Lincoln was a freestyle wrestler? He wasn’t the only president who wrestled. Andrew Jackson wrestled. Why do you think they called him Old Hickory?
My life is complete. I found a Greco. He’s the real deal with a name to match. Panagiotys Gounaridis.
Want to get an amateur wrestling fan upset? Bring up World Wrestling Entertainment or drop a Vince McMahon reference on him.
I always will remember the 80,000 strong, rising and cheering and shaking Olympic Stadium to its foundation.
Las Vegas will host the 2015 World Wrestling Championships, the first qualifying event for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The championships will be held in September 2015 at Orleans Arena.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland – For wrestling, this might have been the ultimate body slam: getting tossed out of the Olympic rings.
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Former UNLV sprinter Kaysha Love will compete for the U.S. bobsled team next month in the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.
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