OLYMPICS

South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been released from prison on parole after serving nearly nine years in prison for killing his girlfriend and is now at home, South Africa’s Department of Corrections said Friday.

NFL stars Patrick Mahomes and Tyreek Hill have expressed an interest in playing for Team USA’s flag football team.

In October, Prime Minister Nahendra Modi said that India will bid for the 2036 Olympic games. But what will it take?

French President Emmanuel Macron says the giant opening ceremony extravaganza that Paris is planning to hold on the River Seine to launch next year’s Olympic Games could be moved if France is hit again in the run-up by extremist attacks.

President Joe Biden is pushing for the Indigenous nation that invented lacrosse to be able to play under its own flag when the sport returns to the Olympics in 2028.

The Paris police’s bomb disposal team is working on an action plan with Paris 2024 organizers ahead of next year’s Olympic Games.

Gymnast Khoi Young, of Bowie, Maryland, will know within months whether he’ll make it to the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Bowie, Maryland, native Khoi Young is a rising star in the gymnastics world and has his eyes on the Olympics. “If I’m going to do something, I want to be the best at it,” he told News4’s Jummy Olabanji.

The host cities for the 2030 and 2034 Winter Olympics will be finalized next year, but the French Alps and Salt Lake City were named the sole candidates on Wednesday.

Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius has been granted parole, 10 years after shooting his girlfriend through a toilet door at his home in South Africa in a killing that jolted the world.

Steve Mesler has trained his body one way his entire life. Training for the NYC Marathon has pushed his body to extremes he has not faced before.

Squash isn’t just a fruit. It’s also a sport that has just been added to the Olympic Games. Here’s how it’s played.

More than 170 years after it was invented, squash will become an Olympic sport in 2028. Here are five things to know about this unique sport.

Flag football, cricket, baseball-softball, lacrosse and squash have officially been added to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics program.

The International Olympic Committee has cited concerns over climate change for its wish to pick two Winter Olympics hosts next July.

Retton is experiencing a “very rare form of pneumonia,” according to her daughter.

Flag football took a key step toward becoming an Olympic sport in 2028, as the International Olympic Committee will vote on the sport’s inclusion for the Los Angeles Games.

Joel Embiid has landed on the United States for the 2024 Olympics.

With the Paris Olympics just over nine months away, French authorities are working to exterminate a bed bug infestation.

How Olympic gold medalist Alix Klineman is “trusting the process” after returning to beach volleyball four-months postpartum and why she’s not ruling Paris 2024 out yet.