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By David J. Lopez, CNN Brian Flores, the former Miami Dolphins head coach who filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the NFL, has been hired by the Pittsburgh Steelers as an assistant coach. The Steelers announced Saturday that Flores was named the team’s senior defensive assistant/linebackers coach on the staff of head coach Mike Tomlin.

By Homero De La Fuente, CNN Elana Meyers Taylor became the most decorated Black athlete in Winter Olympics history after she won the bronze medal in the two-woman bobsleigh at Beijing 2022 on Saturday — and one of the American bobsledder’s initial emotions was a sense of being overwhelmed by her achievement. The medal is

By Wayne Sterling, CNN China’s Sui Wenjing and Han Cong won gold in pairs figure skating at the 2022 Beijing Games on Saturday. The duo finished with a world record total score of 239.88 — 84.41 for short program and 155.47 for free skating — to capture their first-ever Olympic gold. The pair skated to

By Kikue Higuchi, CNN The International Skating Union (ISU) will hold a vote at its Congress in June on a proposal to raise the minimum age for competitors to 17, the governing body told CNN on Friday. The sport has been at the center of attention after 15-year-old Russian skater Kamila Valieva was allowed to

By Jack Bantock, for CNN Eileen Gu and Kamila Valieva became the teenage faces of the Winter Olympics, but their memories of Beijing 2022 are likely to be wildly different. San Francisco native Gu is now a two-time gold-medalist, the Olympics’ youngest ever freestyle skiing champion, a Chinese national hero — and a budding author.

By Kevin Dotson, CNN On Friday, Major League Baseball (MLB) announced the cancellation of some scheduled spring training games due to the ongoing labor dispute between owners and players. Spring training games, which were set to begin on February 26 with some exhibition games beginning a day earlier, will now start no earlier than March

By Coy Wire, Dan Moriarty and Gawon Bae, CNN Team USA ice dancers Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue say they have their “empty medal box waiting in our room,” as they wait to receive their figure skating team event medal which has been postponed without a date in light of Kamila Valieva’s ongoing doping case.

By Homero De La Fuente, CNN There were five gold medals up for grabs on Friday at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Here’s a breakdown of who is taking home gold for their delegations on Day 14 of the Games. Biathlon Women’s 12.5km mass start: Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, France Men’s 15km mass start: Johannes Thingnes Bø,

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN He is Jamaica’s first Olympic alpine skier, but Benjamin Alexander was a late developer when it came to spending time on the slopes. A former DJ who has graced the stage at the Burning Man festival, the 38-year-old only discovered his love for the sport at 32, after a chance encounter

By Finn McSkimming, CNN Winter sports star Gus Kenworthy has a lot to thank his mom for. Her hometown is Chelmsford, Essex in southeast England, and also where he was born and the reason why he is able to compete in his third Winter Olympics. Kenworthy won a slopestyle silver medal for the USA at