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With the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics approaching in July, Human Rights Watch on Friday demanded that track and field officials halt sex testing of female athletes, describing the practice of measuring and restricting their natural testosterone levels as abusive and harmful. Sex testing has been a deeply contentious issue in sports for decades, but the dispute … Read more

Ironman triathlon champions are often regarded as the superheroes of modern sports, freakishly fit specimens who swim, cycle and run a combined 140.6 miles in roughly eight hours. Yet, professional triathletes have long been poorly compensated afterthoughts in a sport that has always prioritized the everyday amateur participants who squeeze in training before and after … Read more

Russell Westbrook is a Most Valuable Player Award winner. He is regularly an All-Star (nine times in 12 seasons) and will almost assuredly be a first-ballot Hall of Famer when his career ends. He has led the league in scoring twice and once scored 43 points in an N.B.A. finals game. He just turned 32 … Read more

PORTLAND, Ore. — At the revamped athletic offices in Matthew Knight Arena, a trophy case has a small platform that has deliberately been left empty as one tribute to a celebration that never happened. Would the Oregon Ducks — who were ranked No. 2 nationally and had the star guard Sabrina Ionescu plus two other … Read more

Anywhere one looks around the world, the soccer industry is struggling with the financial effects of the coronavirus. Leagues are counting their losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Stadiums remain empty. Staff members are being furloughed. And players, even those at the richest clubs, have agreed to millions of dollars in pay cuts … Read more

The Los Angeles Lakers have secured a long-term future with their two most important players by agreeing to new contracts on successive days this week with Anthony Davis and LeBron James. The Lakers and Davis agreed on a five-year, $190 million maximum contract, Rich Paul of Klutch Sports, the agent for both Davis and James, … Read more

Parkour, the video-friendly sport in which daredevils race over rooftops, flip over ledges and climb walls without assistance or equipment, has always felt a little different. Its freewheeling ethos makes it stand out from other sports, and that perception is encouraged by its fans, athletes and organizers. But as the sport’s popularity has increased since … Read more

The text message was stilted and to the point: “I need assistance. I am sinking. This is not a joke. MAYDAY.” Kevin Escoffier was 22 days into the Vendée Globe, the nonstop, round-the-world sailing race done every four years, when a roaring 15-foot wave overwhelmed his boat, folding it in half, on Monday, nearly a … Read more

At France’s national soccer academy, an instructor was investigated after he sent dozens of disturbingly affectionate text messages to a 13-year-old boy. But he was dismissed only after he invited the boy to lunch. At his next club, the man came under suspicion after the worried mother of a young player approached a team official … Read more

The United States Soccer Federation and its World Cup champion women’s team said Tuesday that they had resolved the players’ outstanding claims about working conditions, a rare moment of détente — and mutual happiness — in the sides’ long-running legal fight about equal pay. The agreement, filed in federal court in California, is equal parts … Read more