The British Mountaineering Council (BMC) has today confirmed that a World Climbing Series event, sanctioned by World Climbing (formerly the International Federation of Sport Climbing) will return to ...

Some of the best athletes from around the globe will soon compete in the 2026 Winter Olympics. More than 3,500 athletes from 93 countries will compete in one of 16 Olympic disciplines and six ...

Alex Honnold finished the highest "free solo" climb of an urban structure in history, scaling Taipei 101's 1,667 feet in just ...

Canada’s Summer McIntosh and France’s Léon Marchand were named World Aquatics Female and Male Swimmer of the Year for a second consecutive year. McIntosh, a 19-year-old from Toronto, had arguably the ...

For 92 minutes on a clear Sunday morning in Taipei, thousands of spectators with jittery nerves stared upwards, while people across the world were glued to their screens, as famed climber Alex Honnold ...

Alex Honnold plans to climb Taipei 101 in his signature free solo style without ropes or protective gear. Netflix will ...

Los Angeles 2028 Olympics chiefs promised an "affordable and inclusive" Games on Tuesday as they prepared to open registration for a lottery to buy tickets. LA28 chairman Casey Wasserman said one ...

While Alex Honnold has long been a legend in the outdoor community for his mastery of "free soloing"-- climbing without ropes ...

Former U.S. skeleton athlete John Daly was once asked why anyone would decide to hurl themselves, head first, down an ice-coated mountainside chute on a thin sled with no safety equipment other than a ...

ROME, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Russian athletes at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics will not be able to represent their country even if a peace deal is reached with Ukraine, International Olympic Committee ...

In Olympic sports this weekend, the U.S. speed skating trials for the Milan Cortina Games run from Friday through Monday in Milwaukee, live on NBC Sports and Peacock. Jordan Stolz, the world’s ...

The origins of snowboarding go back to Christmas Day 1965 when an engineer named Sherman Poppen strapped two skis together to give his daughters something to do. He called it a “snurfer” and started ...