Olympics
Wisconsin Health Specialist Serving as Olympics Trainer
With less than three days until the start of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, more than Olympic athletes are preparing to perform on the world's stage. A recent story from WMTV NBC-15 in Wisconsin highlighted a University of Wisconsin health exer...
Olympic Athlete Thanks Trainer & Medical Staff in Open Letter
The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 are underway, and with that are a slew of stories featuring Olympic athletes, their work ethics, and their road to global glory. Kaleigh Gilchrist, a two-time U.S. Olympic water polo player, is just one example of an a...
Why the World Anti-Doping Agency Bans Marijuana
U.S. Olympic favorite Sha'Charri Richardson made headlines recently after her disqualification and suspension from the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics for using marijuana. In June, Richardson, 21, won the women's 100-meter at the U.S. Olympic Track &am...
Doc Rivers: NBA Coaches Are Disadvantaged Leading Team USA
RealGMhttp://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/224079/Rivers_Believes_NBA_Coach_Would_Have_Disadvantages_Leading_Team_USA Doc Rivers, Gregg Popovich and Doug Collins are candidates to replace Mike Krzyzewski as head coach of the United States' national b...
LeBron: We Would Beat Dream Team
http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/basketball/story/_/id/8205408/lebron-james-says-united-states-olympic-team-beat-1992-dream?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&&codeblock4&&LeBron James has joined Kobe Bryant in saying th...
NBC Top Olympic Moments
&&codeblock4&&Last night, NBC highlighted the top moments in the Summer Olympics. The #1 moment took viewers back to 1996 when Kerri Strug led the U.S. women’s gymnastics team to claim the Olympic gold by fighting through an ank...
Twitter Comment Costs Greek Athlete Spot in Olympics
By Mary Pilon&&codeblock4&&http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/sports/olympics/twitter-comment-costs-greek-athlete-spot-in-olympics.htmlLONDON — A triple jump athlete was removed from Greece’s Olympic team Wednesday for post...
Newell-Yow Among FIBA HOF Inductees
Pete Newell and Kay Yow are among this year's 11 inductees into the FIBA International Basketball Hall of Fame. Newell passed away last year and was the former coach of Cal, led the United States to a gold medal in the 1960 Olympics and was known for...