Two-time Olympian Samuel Ikpefan calls for greater institutional and financial support to unlock Africa's vast, untapped ...

Some countries send teams of more than 100 athletes to the Winter Olympics. Others send one person. These are their stories.

Flame Bearers, a media outlet that tells the stories of women athletes’ experiences, presented “Who Gets to Compete in Winter Sports?” ...

Africa’s most decorated sliding athlete, Simidele Adeagbo, has praised Samuel Ikpefan after he became the first Nigerian to compete at two Winter Olympic Games, PUNCH Sports Extra reports.Ikpefan ...

Preview, squad and fixtures for Morocco at the 2026 Women's AFCONMorocco/@FRMFMorocco will once again become the capital of African football as it hosts the 14th edition of the Women's Africa Cup of ...

The ongoing 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo will see athletes compete for medals that carry far more than symbolic value.Each gold medal contains roughly six grams of gold, layered ...

Who says serious athletes are always serious? Akwasi Frimpong, who's competed for Ghana, is a world-class wisecracker as he ...

BORMIO, Italy (AP) — Nikita Filippov, the ski mountaineer racer listed as an individual neutral athlete, was feeling the support. From family and his friends, who showed up in the stands for ...

Nikita Filippov of Russia won the first medal for Individual And Neutral athletes ("AIN") on Feb. 29, at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — The difference between silver and gold in Olympic men's big air was a matter of who did a trick called a “nose butter” better. The fact anyone can do it at all was only one of ...

Alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen of Brazil wins giant slalom at the Milan Cortina Games, and Brazil could add another medal from skeleton competitor Nicole Rocha Silveira ...

The Winter Olympics are set to bring new triumphs and losses to more familiar ground in the years ahead.