Sports

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — After a short respite following the Paris Olympics, the city is soon jolting back to life for the Paralympics. One of the most intense and exciting sports on the schedule is sitting volleyball, which also offers a chance to watch the not-so-secret weapon of Iran’s sitting volleyball team, Morteza

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Goalball is unique to Paralympic sports – a fast, skillful game without an Olympic counterpart in which visually impaired players seek to score by throwing balls into a goal defended by the other team. Remarkably, considering that the ball weighs 1.25kg (roughly 2.75 pounds) and is about the same

By Ben Morse and George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — The 36 teams competing in the upcoming 2024/25 UEFA Champions League – the most prestigious competition in European club football – learned who they will play in the competition’s newly revised format after the draw took place in Monaco on Thursday. Teams were assigned their eight opponents – two

By Jill Martin, CNN (CNN) — No, you weren’t seeing double at the US Open. Aryna Sabalenka had a solid day on the tennis court Wednesday in New York, defeating Lucia Bronzetti 6-3, 6-1 in just over an hour. But the highlight of the day for the world No. 2 may very well have been

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Paralympian turned astronaut John McFall could soon be the first disabled person to go to space – and he credits the Paralympics with helping to challenge preconceptions of what disabled people can achieve. Following a motorcycle accident that caused him to have his right leg amputated at the age

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — A’ja Wilson exploded for 42 points against the Dallas Wings on Tuesday, but it was in a losing cause as the two-time defending champion Las Vegas Aces went down 93-90. The victory, played in front of a sell-out crowd at College Park Center, stopped the Wings’ seven-game losing streak

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Britain’s Dan Evans outlasted Karen Khachanov in the longest match in US Open in history on Tuesday, holding off the Russian in a mammoth, five-set epic which lasted for five hours and 35 minutes. The pair’s first three sets went to tie breakers in New York, with Khachanov leveling

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Many sports at the Paralympics have an Olympic cousin. There are only two without counterparts, one of which is boccia. Boccia has been in the Paralympics since 1984 and has grown in popularity rapidly since then. So much so that on the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) website, it describes

By Jill Martin, CNN (CNN) — Jannik Sinner said it “took some time to get in the rhythm,” but the world No. 1 in men’s tennis advanced to the second round of the US Open with a 2-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-2 win against American Mackenzie McDonald. His win Tuesday in New York was Sinner’s first

CNN By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Naomi Osaka on Tuesday recorded her first win over a top 10 player in more than four years as she secured an emphatic 6-3 6-2 victory over Jelena Ostapenko in the first round of the US Open. Osaka’s performance was as eye-catching as the giant green bow she

By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Naomi Osaka on Tuesday recorded her first win over a top 10 player in more than four years as she secured an emphatic 6-3 6-2 victory over Jelena Ostapenko in the first round of the US Open. Osaka’s performance was as eye-catching as the giant green bow she wore

By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — In the final grand slam of her career, No. 11 seed Danielle Collins suffered a surprise first-round loss to fellow American Caroline Dolehide at the US Open on Tuesday. Collins was up a set and a break of serve, but Dolehide, the world No. 49, was able to fight

By Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — Watching Caitlin Clark make history is starting to become a familiar sight. The 2024 WNBA No. 1 overall pick recorded her 21st game of the season with at least 15 points and five assists in the Indiana Fever’s 84-79 win over the Atlanta Dream on Monday, the most by

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke the 28-year-old 3,000-meter world record at the Silesia Diamond League, while Mondo Duplantis broke his pole vault record yet again. Ingebrigtsen finished in a staggering time of 7:15.77 on Sunday, more than three seconds faster than Kenyan Daniel Komen’s record set in 1996. The Norwegian 23-year-old