Kyle Visser won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal, and received a fifth-place participation ribbon, at the Special Olympics World Games last month in Abu Dhabi. The very special Olympian joins Amy Van Dyken and Missy Franklin as the most successful Colorado swimming champions.
Another 50 gymnasts have signed on to sue the U.S. Olympic Committee, its officers and directors for sexual abuses suffered at the hands of na…
The clogged freeway to ski country costs Colorado's economy billions. Is there a solution ahead?
Yuliya Stepanova faced a soul-shaking decision in 2013.
A group of 51 women who claim they were sexually assaulted under the guise of treatment by convicted sports doctor Larry Nassar have sued the …
COLORADO SPRINGS — Olympic track cyclist Kelly Catlin, who helped the U.S. women's pursuit team win the silver medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeir…
G’Angelo Hancock can now think to his first match and laugh.
Not long after her last match, wrestler Areana Villaescusa of the Army women’s World Class Athlete program expressed disappointment to her coach.
David Taylor was a four-time high school state champion, won two NCAA titles at Penn State and recently was named the top freestyle wrestler, …
The original scoreboard from the Miracle on Ice will hang inside the U.S. Olympic Museum.
DETROIT — Michigan State University's Board of Trustees will seek to oust interim President John Engler if he doesn't resign amid criticism of…
A high-level commission would redesign the Colorado Springs-based U.S. Olympic Committee under a measure proposed by U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner.
Sarah Hirshland, chief executive officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee, says a week of criticism and strife over how the committee will move p…
Two taekwondo coaches had a lifetime ban from Olympic sports permanently lifted after their alleged sexual assault victims refused to testify …
COLORADO SPRINGS — The U.S. Olympic Committee has appointed Paralympic gold-medal swimmer Brad Snyder, Ernst & Young executive Beth Brooke…
A congressional review of the U.S. Olympic system’s handling of sex-abuse cases criticizes a culture that sought to protect reputation and ima…
Missy Franklin officially ended her swimming career Wednesday, but the real conclusion crashed into her life, and ours, on an August night in Rio.
Five-time Olympic champion Missy Franklin is retiring from swimming at age 23, citing chronic shoulder pain that has affected her for the last…
In a Friday conference call, leaders of the U.S. Olympic Committee celebrated a great fundraising year and a pile of medals earned in the Wint…
The long-running debate over whether Denver should bid on a future Winter Olympics — a debate fueled by Gov.-elect Jared Polis’ skepticism — i…
Two U.S. senators have asked the Justice Department to probe whether the former boss of the Colorado Springs-based U.S. Olympic Committee lied…
Top leaders at the U.S. Olympic Committee in Colorado Springs were complicit in a yearlong “concealment” of abuse allegations that led to the …
USA Gymnastics filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition on Wednesday as it attempts to reach settlements in the dozens of sex-abuse lawsuits it …
The public is invited to a meeting Tuesday to discuss potential permanent installation and other improvements at the Velodrome dome at Memorial Park.
If Denver decides to bid on the Winter Olympic Games in 2030 — and that’s a big “if” — it will have one fewer competitor among potential U.S. sites.
On many Colorado Springs mornings, Apolo Ohno rode 10 miles on his Cannondale R2000 road bike from the Olympic Training Center to the Manitou …
Three-time Olympic gold medalist Shaun White apologized Monday night to Special Olympians for posting a photo of himself dressed up for Hallow…
Tommie Smith, is, more than any elite athlete in American sports history, defined by a single moment. If you’re old enough, you likely remembe…
LAS VEGAS • After Spencer Haywood conquered immense odds to earn a spot on America’s 1968 Olympic basketball team, word got out he was from Trinidad.
The former president and chief executive of USA Gymnastics was detained by U.S. marshals Wednesday, authorities announced, in connection with …
Mary Bono’s tenure as the interim president of USA Gymnastics is already over.
Editor's note: The Gazette is taking a look at the lifestyle of athletes at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, asking profe…
Russian military intelligence targeted the Colorado Springs-based U.S. Anti-Doping Agency with a four-year hacking and smear campaign, accordi…
BRUSSELS — The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday charged seven Russian intelligence officers with hacking anti-doping agencies and other org…
A new sexual abuse lawsuit against USA Diving claims the leaders of the U.S. Olympic Committee in Colorado Springs "tolerate and often facili…
The U.S. Olympic Committee and the sports it represents pledged to make changes that would put an end to sexual assaults
The new CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee said the culture that allowed sexual predators access to athletes is changing, but fixing the issues…
DENVER — Missy Franklin was the golden girl of the 2012 London Olympics. Night after night, she stood in the spotlight, her broad swimmer's sh…
For the U.S. Olympic Committee, this has been a year of investigations, a devastating court trial, apologies and subsequent changes in top man…
Larry Probst will step down as chairman of the board of the U.S. Olympic Committee, giving the top post to Susanne Lyons, who filled in as CEO…
Raife Manjarrez is a gangly 14-year-old boy, preoccupied by his cellphone and whatever you’ve got to snack on, so long as it’s not dark chocolate.
DENVER — The U.S. Center for SafeSport has permanently banned two-time Olympic taekwondo champion Steven Lopez for sexual misconduct involving…
USA Gymnastics turned to an outsider when it tasked Kerry Perry to steer the embattled organization through the fallout of the Larry Nassar scandal.
USA Basketball is expanding its men's junior national team program, partnering with the NBA, NCAA and National Basketball Players Association …
DENVER — The longtime chief marketing officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee U.S. Olympic Committee is taking a similar position at New York Pu…
The Olympic gold medalist and Coronado High School product has a UFC 227 title fight on Saturday.
The U.S. Olympic Training Center brought race walker Carl Schueler to Colorado Springs in the early 1980s. Flexible employers kept him here.
Rich Bender, executive director of Colorado Springs-based USA Wrestling, has a vision for an event at the new downtown soccer stadium.
Saying problems with the U.S. Olympic Committee go far beyond sexual assault, a representative for athletes told a Senate committee Tuesday th…
DENVER — The U.S. Olympic Committee is trying to remove itself as a defendant in lawsuits by gold medalists McKayla Maroney, Jordyn Wieber and…
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Swimmer Ryan Lochte has been suspended until July 2019 by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
The USOC did right by selecting a woman as CEO.
