The Olympics: Olympic Sports

And in PyeongChang, Bailey hopes to once again make history. The Olympian earned a silver medal in the mass start at the world championships in in Austria.

Meyers Taylor was the first American woman to ever win a bobsled world championship in The two-time Olympic medalist has also advanced gender equality in the sport. She has competed in the 4-man event with three male brakemen, a first for the Winter Olympic sport that had required women to race only two-person sleds. The multiple-Olympic medalist made history in the Winter Olympic sport in when he won the U. Teammate Kikkan Randall won a world championship medal in the sprint just after giving birth to her first child, and Sadie Bjornsen began her world cup season with a second-place finish in November in Finland.

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In February , Diggins and Randall made history when they earned silver and bronze medals in the world championship sprints. Team USA is hoping to return to the podium after a more-than-decade-long curling drought.

His teammate Joe Polo will also compete in PyeongChang. A rising figure skating star, Nathan Chen was the first U. As the Four Continents champion and U. Other figure skaters to watch: Siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani. They are world bronze medalists and two-time U.

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Kenworthy has landed on the podium for the halfpipe in international competition as well, including a halfpipe win during his season at the U. He came out in , and could become the first openly gay male athlete to compete in a Winter Olympic Games.

There are many other possible new sports for future Games. In February , wrestling was dropped from the core sports list, and joined with baseball and softball joint bid , climbing , karate , roller sport , squash , wakeboard and wushu to attempt to gain a place on the program for In May the IOC cut Karate, roller sports, sport climbing, wakeboarding and wushu from this list, leaving Baseball-softball, squash and wrestling to be shortlisted.

Then in September , they voted to return wrestling to the list of sports for the Olympic program.

In , further voting was held for the inclusion of more sports. More can be found on Discontinued Olympic Sports. These were the events at the ancient Olympic Games. There is more information on the Ancient Events page.

The United States will be favorites to lift a record fourth Women's World Cup following the draw for next year's tournament. Alex Morgan, whose 18 goals led the U. Soccer Female Player of the Year.

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