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The associate coach of the University of Texas, Erik Sullivan, was appointed the new American trainer of women’s volleyball.

Sullivan, an Olympic Libero in 2000 and 2004, succeeds Karch Karch Kiraly, who went to training the male national team after being an American women’s head coach since September 2012.

“Karch Kiraly left an incredible heritage, and I am determined to continue the work he did with this incredible team” Sullivan said in a press release. “My goal is to rely on a solid basis and create an environment where our athletes can develop their full potential while competition at the highest level. I can’t wait to work alongside this talented group of athletes while We are preparing for the challenges to come. “

Sullivan, 52, has been chief coach associated with Texas in the past 14 years, helping Longhorns with three national titles.

Before Texas, Sullivan spent three seasons as assistant at Nebraska. His first season in Lincoln coincided with the last season of Jordan Larson as a Husker player.

Larson, now 38, said in August that she had “probably” finished playing for the national team after four Olympic appearances.

Sullivan was also the American men’s team leader in the last three Olympic games.

American women won a medal in each of the last five Olympic games, including the first Olympic title of the Tokyo program in 2021.

This summer, the Quadrian world championship will be in Thailand.

Karch Kiraly appointed the American male volleyball coach, symmetry for 2028 the Olympics

Karch Kiraly, who trained the American women’s volleyball team with the last three Olympic games, will now train men.

Bronze medalist Olympic floor an ana bărbosu announced a commitment to Stanford And could become the first Olympic medalist in Romania to participate in the gymnastics of the NCAA.

The Bărbosu position said that it would be part of the 2029 class, which would mean its debut for Cardinal next season.

Bărbosu, 18, won the first Olympic gymnastics medal in Romania in 12 years at the Paris Games, although a current call process involving Jordan Chiles’ American score can affect the results.

On August 5, Chiles initially won the floor bronze after an American survey on his difficulty score led to his increase in a tenth. This moved him from fifth place in the bronze position, passing from Romanians Sabrina Voinea and Bărbosu.

After a Romanian call, a panel of the Arbitration Court for Sport (case) on August 10 rose the chile scoring because the score investigation was recorded as submitted four seconds after the one minute period. Chiles was returned to fifth place. Bărbosu has become the bronze medalist.

September 16, It was announced that the peppers called The decision of the Court to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. Case decisions, the headquarters of which are in Switzerland, can be invoked before the Swiss Federal Court for limited procedural reasons.

The chile call has not yet been resolved. The appeal said that cases refused to examine the video evidence found on August 11 which showed that the investigation had been submitted in time.

Many Olympic medalists have participated in NCAA gymnastics, but almost all of them were American. This includes gymnasts active in peppers at UCLA and Jade Carey at Oregon State.

Amelie Morgan, bronze medalist of the Tokyo Olympic team for Great Britain, is a senior in competition for UTAH.

Olympic champion Hezly rivera in gold at 16, commitment to LSU, and Dream of the 28

The American Olympic gold medalist, Hezly Rivera, shares her unforgettable journey to Paris and her passion to represent the Hispanic community.

The US government has retained its annual financial contribution to the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA), increasing tensions between American stakeholders and AMA on the efficiency and transparency of the anti -doping organization.

The ADAD and the American Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) confirmed on Wednesday that the United States had refused to pay the $ 3.6 million it had promised to the AMA as part of its normal financing process for 2024. The New York Times indicated that the decision to retain funding was manufactured by the White House in consultation with Congress, on concerns concerning AMA management of a case in 2021 in which 23 swimmers Chinese were discreetly eliminated after having tested positive for the same prohibited substance.

“Adad must take concrete measures to restore confidence in the global anti -doping system and provide athletes with full confidence they deserve,” the White House said in a press release, which reported the New Wednesday. “When the dollars of American taxpayers are allocated, we must ensure complete responsibility and it is our responsibility to guarantee that these funds are used in an appropriate manner.”

The White House press office did not immediately respond to a message from USA Today Sports.

USADA CEO, Travis Tygart, said in a statement that he had made this decision as “the only good choice to protect the rights of athletes, responsibility and equitable competition”.

“Unfortunately, the current AMA leaders have left the United States without any other option after omitting several very reasonable requests, such as an independent audit of AMA operations, to achieve the necessary transparency and responsibility To ensure that the AMA is able to protect athletes, “said Tygart, who has repeatedly criticized Wada.

Tygart also pointed out that no government had given the AMA more money since its foundation in 2000 than the United States, while explaining that non-payment would have “no impact” on the ability of American athletes to compete in international sports.

The $ 3.6 million due by the United States, when it is automatically equaled by the International Olympic Committee, represent around 14% of the AMA $ 52 million budget for 2024. The United States should pay $ 3.8 million for 2025.

Tygart had previously suggested that the United States could retain its annual AMA funding as a means of arouing reform following the scandal of Chinese swimmers, in which 23 athletes were tested positive for the same prohibited substance, trimetazidine, A few months before the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games. The anti -doping authority of China did not publicly disclose the positive tests, at Need, and the AMA discreetly erased swimmers after agreeing with the affirmation of China according to which positive tests were the result of contamination in a hotel.

When the New York Times and the German diffuser Ard highlighted the last case, the leaders of the AMA quickly defended to defend themselves against the claims of criticism, in particular Tygart, which they had actually swept the case under the carpet. Wada then on several occasions Tygart and the United States as trying to politicize sports.

Asked about the American decision’s ramifications to retain funding, AMA spokesperson James Fitzgerald, wrote in an email on Wednesday that, as part of the organization’s statutes, any country that does not pay its Promised contributions is prohibited to have a representation on the board of directors or executive of the AMA foundation or at the Wada Committee, which helps to manage it. This means that Dr. Rahul Gupta, who oversees the National House Drug Control Office of the White House, will no longer sit on the executive committee.

The decision comes as the United States is preparing to host a series of prestigious international sporting events over the next decade, including the 2026 World Cup for male football, the 2028 summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles and the 2034 winter games in Salt Lake City.

The New York Times reported that before retaining the funding of the AMA, the White House sought the possible ramifications of the decision and “concluded that this could mean losing to accommodate the 2034″ winter Olympic Games ” – Although this seems unlikely given the strength of Salt Lake from Salt Lake to Salt Lake “offers and the shortage of other interested and well-equipped hosts. Olympic and paralympic American did not immediately respond to a message asking for comments.

The IOC officially granted the 2034 winter games in the United States during a vote last summer after a controversial meeting during which CIO members torn, among other things, the Rodchenkov law, which allows the US authorities to pursue criminal charges in doping that affects American athletes. The leaders of the American auctions tried to appease these concerns and undertook to reiterate their support for the AMA as “the supreme authority” in the global fight against the doping of sports.

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This article originally appeared on USA Today: US Funding Wada returns in the midst of concerns concerning the Chinese doping scandal

The USADA (USADA) Anti -Doping Agency said that it “fully supports” the US government’s decision to retain a payment of $ 3.6 million (2.8 million pounds of major doping scandal.

News emerged in April 2024 that 23 Chinese swimmers were allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 despite having been tested positive for a prohibited heart medication – called Trimétazidine – During the previous months.

The country’s own anti -doping agency determined that the athletes had involuntarily ingested the substance, with the Wada, later saying that it was “not able to refute” this assertion.

The CEO of the USADA, Travis Tygart, made a declaration on the refusal of payment, claiming that it was “the only good choice to protect the rights, responsibility and equitable competition of athletes”.

He added that the wada “left the United States without further option after failing to submit several very reasonable requests, such as an independent audit of [its] operations, to achieve the necessary transparency and responsibility ”.

The AMA responded to this declaration by saying that American representatives could not now sit on its foundation board of directors or its executive committee.

At the time of the emergence of the scandal, Wada said that it had been taken in “geopolitical tensions” between the two countries, an independent investigation later concluding that the agency had not managed the case, and She had shown no bias towards Chinese swimmers.

The Tygart Declaration has added: “Since the exposure of AMA management of the 23 positive tests of the 23 Chinese swimmers who gave China and its athletes special treatment under the rules, of Many stakeholders around the world – including athletes, governments and national anti -doping agencies – have sought responses, transparency and responsibility for the AMA management.

“Because the AMA has failed to apply uniformly the global rules in place to protect the integrity of the competition and the rights of athletes to equity, an important AMA reform must occur to guarantee that It does not happen again. “

The United States has been the most funded government partner in the AMA since the agency’s creation in 2000, and the country will host the next Los Angeles Olympic Games in 2028.

The London marathon, on April 27, will showcase the first face to face confrontation between the Olympic women’s gold medalists for decades.

The female elite field includes the Olympic champion of Paris Sifan Hassan in the Netherlands, the Olympic champion of Tokyo Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya and the holder of the Ruth Chepngetich world record of Kenya.

More Ethiopian Tigst Assefa, which means that the field includes the three fastest women in history: Chepngetich (2:09:56), Assefa (2:11:53) and Hassan (2:13:44).

Hassan and Jepchirchir would be the first gold medalists of the Olympic female marathon to run on 26.2 miles since the Ethiopian Fatuma Roba and the Valentina Yegorova Russian went to one to the Nagano 2004 marathon in Japan in Japan in Japan in Japan in Japan , according to Tilastopaja.

In Paris, Hassan won the gold marathon after bronze in 5000m and 10,000m. She became the second person to win a medal in the three longest races at the Olympic Games after the Czech Emil Zátopek, who won the three in 1952.

Hassan won the London marathon in 2023 when he started at the distance.

“London is also the place where I learned to be patient, to trust myself and to continue to push even when it seems impossible,” She said in a press release. “It is a place where I grew up, not only as an athlete, but as a person.”

Jepchirchir is the only person to win the Olympic, Boston and New York marathons during a career. She did it in eight months in 2021 and 2022.

On October 13, Chepngetich lowered the world record to 2:09:56, becoming the first woman to beat 2:10 in the marathon and breaking the previous Asfa record of 1:57.

The male field of the London marathon includes the Olympic gold medalist from Paris Tamirat tola of Ethiopia, as well as the Olympic and global bronze medalist of 10,000m Jacob Kiplimo in Uganda during his 26.2 miles beginnings.

Alex Yee, Olympic Triathlon Olympic gold medalist, to run the London marathon

Alex Yee will become the last triathlon star to run a marathon.

BOSTON (AP) – A gold medal awarded to the first Olympic Games organized on American soil was auctioned for more than half a million dollars, which is part of the hundreds of lots of souvenirs of games during Decades, a business announced on Friday.

The medal of the St. Louis Olympic Games of 1904, sold at auction for $ 545,371, carries the inscription “Olympiad, 1904” and shows a victorious athlete holding a crown on the front. On the other side, Nike, the goddess of victory in ancient Greek mythology, is shown alongside Zeus, the king of the gods of the Pantheon, and the words for the 110 -meter obstacles that were awarded. The medal, awarded to American Fred Schule, includes the original ribbon and leather case.

It was the first Olympic Games where the gold medals were awarded and the Americans took advantage of it, winning 78 of the 96 events. Unlike the Olympic medals these days which are mainly in silver with a gold veneer, they were smaller and entirely in gold.

Bobby Eaton, Olympic specialist in Boston based RR auction, said it was unusual that a medal of this kind is presented at auction, although the particular came from the collection of the Schule family.

“No one really knows exactly how many Olympic gold medals from 1904 are still there,” said Eaton. “What we know is that they are extremely rare. Of the 100 gold medals awarded in Saint-Louis, many have been lost for time or are hidden in collections and private museums.”

Beyond the gold medals, the 1904 games were also stored for a lot of controversy and quirks.

The games were initially awarded to Chicago, but the organizers of the world exhibition in St. Louis feared the competition for attendance and protested a second international event held simultaneously. The fair organizers have threatened to organize their own sporting events. It took the founder of the modern Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin, to forge peace by moving the 300 miles Olympic Games (483 kilometers) to the south.

If this drama was not enough, Fred Lorz seemed to have won the marathon race until it was discovered, it rose halfway in a car.

The organizers organized “days of anthropology” when members of Aboriginal tribes around the world at the exhibition for the purchase of Louisiana, the official name of the World Fair of Saint-Louis, were torn from the fair and said to compete without warning.

The games have also seen the beginnings of boxing and free struggle, sports that hung on to the summer Olympic Games to the present day, as well as longtime croquet and tug events.

“These medals are not only competition – they are an snapshot of the first days of modern Olympic Games,” said Eaton. “Having one like this, in such an exceptional state, is really remarkable and a unique opportunity for collectors.”

The sale is part of hundreds of Olympic items that were up for auction, including a bronze medal from the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, as well as gold medals from the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games, Olympic Games de Tokyo from 1964, 1998 Nagano Olympics and 2012 London 2012, 1964 Tokyo Olympics, 1998 Nagano Olympics and 2012 London 2012, 2016 Olympic Games.

Olympic memories have long recovered a good price.

In 2022, the silver medal captured by Luz Long, the long German jumper who became friends with Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, sold at auction for more than $ 488,000. A first silver medal awarded to the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 sold $ 180,111 when it was auctioned in 2021 and a gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver sold $ 68,750 in 2019.

The athletes also auction their medals for charity, including the double canoe champion Yuri Cheban of Ukraine whose two gold medals and a bronze were sold at auction for $ 109,451 in 2022 to help the effort war. The swimmer Ryan Lochte sold his six Olympic silver and bronze medals at the same year, the $ 166,779 collected to go to an organization benefiting children. He kept his gold medals.

The next summer Olympic Games will be in Los Angeles in 2028, marking the third time that the City has organized the Games. He also welcomed the games in 1932 and 1984.

Modern Pentathlete Kate French, who won Olympic gold at the Tokyo Games, announced her sports retirement.

French also won five world championship medals and six European gold medals during her career, and won the World Cup title during a dominant 2021 in which she was classified as number one in the world.

The 33 -year -old man returned to sport after 18 months last summer to participate in Paris, but the illness hampered his chances of winning another medal and she withdrew from the competition on the last day.

In an article on Instagram, French said that she was leaving sport “with a heart full of happiness and a head full of wonderful memories”.

She added: “There were a lot of ups and downs, but it was an incredible adventure and frankly, I would not change anything.”

The Frenchman, from Kent but now based in Wiltshire, has been involved in sport since he joined the British Pathway program in 2007.

In 2010, she was part of the team that won the world junior title before winning a first world’s senior gold medal in the team team in Taiwan in 2013.

French finished fifth in Rio in 2016 during his first Olympic Games before storming the title in Tokyo five years later.

She swam a personal record at the 200m freestyle and finished more than 15 seconds in advance in the laser race to establish a new Olympic record for the total highest points of the event.

The French took a break in sport after winning gold in 2021, competing only twice the following year, before retreating in 2023, because it “did not want to regret” not having tried for the games from Paris last summer.

“On the one hand of performance, Kate dominated sport, and on the one hand, she continues to inspire in the way she did,” said Jamie Cooke, Pentathlon performance manager GB .

The modern pentathlon is subject to a significant overhaul before the next games in Los Angeles in 2028, with a removal show-jjumping from five events to be replaced by an obstacle course in Ninja Warrior style.

Transgender women are increasingly likely to be prohibited from the female category through Olympic sport after another leading candidate to become president of the International Olympic Committee has supported a new general policy.

Individual sports were able to establish their own rules in the Paris matches of last year, which caused a patchwork of policies that prevented anyone who had crossed male puberty in competition in sports such as athletics and swimming , but potentially eligible in women’s football.

There are also Olympic Sport by Sport rules concerning athletes with differences in sexual development, with athletics, led by Lord Coe, judging that athletes must reduce their level of testosterone to less than 2.5 nanomols per liter. This meant that Caster Semenya, who won the 800 -meter Olympic title in 2012 and 2016, is not eligible.

COE, who is president of world athletics and leading candidate to succeed Thomas Bach as president of the IOC, has long shown that he would bring clarity similar to gender policy in all Olympic sports.

Kirsty Coventry, a member of the board of directors of the IOC since 2018, is also a member of the CIO board of directors, which now supports an Olympic policy similar to athletics or swimming.

“The protection of the female category and female sports is essential – this is a priority that we collectively meet,” said Coventry, who won seven Olympic medals, including two gold, in swimming.

“There is more and more scientific research. We have no conversation on the way it harmed men’s sport. This, in itself, says that we have to protect female sport. It is very clear that transgender women are more capable in the women’s category and can eliminate opportunities that should be equal for women. »»

Coventry was also part of the board of directors which managed the enormous Olympic controversy in Paris when Lin Yu-Ting and Imane Khelif won gold after being deemed ineligible for the female category by the International Boxing Association; A body that was then stripped of the right to manage sport due to governance and ethical problems. Coventry said that “the lessons will always be learned – Paris is certainly one of these moments”, but said they could not have predicted specific controversy.

“I do not believe that it is something with hindsight that we could have predicted, because these boxers had fights against each other and that there had been no previous problems,” she declared.

“When you have such a sensitive problem on the world scene, you must make sure that athletes are protected – that their rights are heard – and that they are protected on both sides.”

The IOC, which stopped gender tests at the turn of the century, had defended the participation of Khelif and Yu-Ting in Paris by pointing their passports and saying that they were born and grew up as women.

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Olympic triathlete Georgia Taylor-Brown should be the special guest at Isle of Man Sports Awards at Villa Marina on February 27.

The 30 -year -old Manchester man, who obtained medals at the Olympic Games in Paris and Tokyo respectively in 2024 and 2020, said that she was “really excited” to be invited.

Taylor-Brown said: “I can’t wait to meet athletes and dive into the island’s sports culture for a few days.”

The star of the Tour de France Sir Mark Cavendish, the Olympic equestrian Yasmin Ingham and the beginner of Wimbledon, Billy Harris, are among those named for prices.

“Deep sports roots”

Taylor-Brown won a bronze medal in the mixed team relay for Great Britain at the Paris Olympic Games last summer.

She also obtained a silver medal in individual triathlon at the Tokyo 2020 Games, as well as a gold team with a mixed relay.

And she is a former world champion of triathlon and medalist of the Commonwealth Games.

Before the ceremony, she said: “It will be my first visit to the island of Man, but I am well aware of the deep sporting roots of the island.”

There are 14 nominees in the 11 price categories, including athletes and the sportswoman of the year, and the disability sportsman of the year.

The Minister of Education, Sport and Culture, Daphne Caine, said that she was “delighted” that the triathlete had accepted the invitation.

“I am convinced that all those who participate will gain precious information from their dedication, its resilience and its success,” she added.

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The 100m Olympic champion Noah Lyles returns to the high -level competition for the first time since the Paris Games at the Grand Prix in New Balance Room, live Sunday at 4 p.m. He de Boston on NBC and Peacock.

The full start lists are there.

Lyles faces the Olympic champion of Tokyo 100m Marcell Jacobs of Italy in the 60m in the first head between two Olympic Menmpic Champions of the 100m since the 2017 World Championships (the latest Usain Bolt race against Justin Gatlin).

In the 60m, which is only run inside, Lyles is the 2024 world silver medalist with a personal record of 6.43 seconds. Jacobs is the 2022 global gold medalist with a 6.41 bp, seven shy hundredths of the world record.

The 60m male field in New Balance also includes the medalists of the world championships American Trayvon Bromell and Brit Zharnel Hughes.

The New Balance meeting also includes the Olympic gold medalists Grant Holloway (60m hedges, as well as the silver medalist in the world in 2022, Trey Cunningham), Masai Russell (60m hedges), Julien Alfred (300m), Rai Benjamin (300m ) and Quincy Wilson (400m).

After New Balance, the indoor athletics season continues with Millrose Games on February 8 (also on NBC and Peacock), as well as the US athletics room championships on February 22-23 (also on NBC and Peacock in February.

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