The Americans had arguably the best world championships in their long and distinguished figure skating history, and now they are pointing toward next season and the Olympics.

Attorneys for Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva are taking her doping case back to court.

Iga Swiatek is the second high-profile tennis player to test positive for a banned substance this year.

When details from a scientific experiment that could have helped clear embattled Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva landed at the World Anti-Doping Agency, the leader of that organization’s reaction was unequivocal: “We have to stop that urgently,” he wrote.

Canadian figure skaters will not join the United States and Japan on the podium at the Paris Olympics next week.

The United States figure skating team has been formally confirmed as gold medalists from the 2022 Beijing Olympics by a sports court ruling.

The world’s top anti-doping regulator says after reviewing a documentary and other media reports that it stands by its decision to clear 23 Chinese swimmers to compete at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics despite testing positive for a banned heart medication.

Revelations of nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers whose positive doping tests went unpunished have sparked an intense flurry of accusations and legal threats between the World Anti-Doping Agency and the head of the U.S. drug-fighting organization.

The doping case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva left a “very unpleasant” taste with the World Anti-Doping Agency because the teenager was the only one punished with a ban while her coaches and entourage have not been sanctioned.

Four appeals filed at sport’s highest court in fallout from the doping case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva are set to delay awarding medals from the 2022 Beijing Olympics yet again.

The governing body that oversees figure skating has defended its decision to award the bronze medal from the 2022 Beijing Olympics to the Russian squad.

A strawberry dessert contaminated by her grandfather’s heart medication was offered in sport's highest court as a possible cause of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s positive doping test.

The U.S. figure skating team from the Beijing Olympics will receive a gold medal now that Russian skater Kamila Valieva has been disqualified for doping.

The Russia figure skating team still stands to get bronze medals from the 2022 Beijing Olympics despite the disqualification of Kamila Valieva in a doping case.

The highest court in sports sanctioned Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva for doping violations at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

International Olympic officials have told counterparts in the United States that their figure skating team will receive gold medals now that Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has been disqualified for doping.

The doping case involving teenage Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva that marred the 2022 Beijing Olympics has returned to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

On display at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum are nine empty boxes that should be holding medals.

The World Anti-Doping Agency says it has appealed Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s doping case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and is seeking a four-year ban.

U.S. Figure Skating has had enough with the delays over the awarding of team medals from the Beijing Olympics.

The World Anti-Doping Agency says a Russian tribunal has found figure skater Kamila Valieva bore “no fault or negligence” in a doping case that rocked last year’s Winter Olympics.

Eight months after finishing behind the Russians at the Winter Olympics, the U.S. team has yet to receive its medals.

No 15-year-old figure skaters will be allowed to compete at the 2026 Olympics following the controversy surrounding Russian national champion Kamila Valieva at this year’s Beijing Games.

Strongmen and sports are a match made in hell, but that never bothered the International Olympic Committee before.

More and more sports are following the appeal of the International Olympic Committee and banning Russian athletes from competing in the wake of the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

The invasion of Ukraine could further undermine Russia's status as an elite sports dynasty, which already has been weakened by deception and doping scandals but often punished only by a tepid pushback from international sports bodies.

The Olympics have said goodbye to Asia after a star-crossed run, and it’s unclear when they’ll be back after the continent hosted four of the last eight Games.

A pile of figure-skating rubble created by Russian misbehavior.

Some figure skaters are hoping an Olympic doping scandal that is fueling a push to raise the minimum age of competitors will also focus attention on what they see as the sport’s most pressing issue: body image, body shaming and disordered eating.

The Olympic figure skating program at the Beijing Games probably won't be remembered for the soaring performances of American gold medalist Nathan Chen, French ice dancers Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron or the Chinese pairs team of Sui Wenjing and Han Cong.

Sui Wenjing and Han Cong captured the Olympic gold medal that eluded them by a razor-thin margin four years ago.

Journalists who spent weeks of reporting on the Beijing Olympics while hermetically sealed inside the “closed-loop” system will leave with an incomplete picture of what reporting in China entails.

Arbitrators have rejected a last-ditch request by American figure skaters to have their silver medals awarded before the end of the Olympics.

Slovakia has won its first Olympic hockey medal in the nation’s history.

A worldwide wave of sympathy has flowed to Kamila Valieva for the ordeal she endured at the Beijing Olympics.

Eileen Gu turned the Beijing Olympics into her own personal playground.

La campeona olímpica de patinaje artístico en Beijing dice que se siente vacía; la subcampeona afirma que no volvería a patinar y la favorita se va llorando sin decir una palabra.

Sui Wenjing and Han Chan of China shattered their own world record for a short program at the Beijing Games on Friday night, giving them the narrowest of leads over Russian rivals Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov heading into the free skate to decide the Olympic champion.

Russia’s trio of teenage figure skating stars each enter an uncertain future after what may be the most dramatic night in their sport's history.

Canadian figure skater Madeline Schizas could end up a medalist at the Beijing Games, though she isn’t holding her breath for the results of the Russian doping scandal that has cast a shadow over figure skating at the Winter Olympics.

Anna Shcherbakova won a stunning gold medal in women’s figure skating at the Beijing Games while Russian teammate Kamila Valieva tumbled all the way out of the medals after a mistake-filled end to her controversial Olympics.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva ends in fourth place in the women’s individual figure skating event, which she competed in despite failing a pre-Olympics doping test.

Russia’s “Quad Squad” of figure skaters is looking for an Olympics podium sweep by landing the thrilling quadruple jumps that remain rare in the women’s competition.

The women’s figure skating event ends Thursday — the competition portion, at least.

IOC president Thomas Bach has offered U.S. figure skaters Olympic torches as holdover gifts while they await a resolution of the Russian doping case preventing them from receiving their silver medals.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was allowed to skate at the Olympics in the short program partly because her age gives her extra rights as a “protected person” in a doping case.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva listed two legal substances used to improve heart function on an anti-doping control form she filled out before her drug case at the Olympics erupted.

The Associated Press has learned IOC president Thomas Bach offered U.S. figure skaters Olympic torches as holdover gifts while they await a resolution of the Russian doping case that is preventing them from receiving their silver medals.

Russian teenager Kamila Valieva was on the ice for a final run-through of her short program hours before one of the most-anticipated events of the Beijing Olympics.

The doping scandal around Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has been a Games-changer at the Beijing Olympics.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, the heavily favored 15-year-old dynamo at the center of the latest Olympic doping scandal, overcame an early mistake to lead after the women’s short program at the Beijing Games on Tuesday night.

Freestyler skier Alex Hall has led a 1-2 American finish in the men’s Olympic slopestyle competition in Beijing.

The saga of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva moves on to the short program — which she can participate in after a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

After Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s fate is determined at the Olympics, legal trouble for her coach and others in her orbit could emerge in the United States.

Russian teenager Kamila Valieva has been cleared to compete in the women’s figure skating competition at the Winter Olympics despite failing a pre-Games drug test.

Hilary Knight had a goal and assist, Alex Cavallini stopped 25 shots and the defending Olympic champion United States defeated Finland 4-1 in a women’s hockey semifinal at the Beijing Games to set up the sixth gold-medal showdown between the Americans and Canada.

Fifteen-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva still waits to hear whether she can compete for the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics after her marathon doping hearing concluded.

The Winter Olympics finally look like the Winter Olympics.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva testified by video at the appeal hearing that will decide if she can still compete at the Beijing OIympics.

The United States has clinched the top seed in the Olympic men’s hockey tournament.

Three judges from the Court of Arbitration for Sport will sit on the panel to hear the doping case against Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva on Sunday at the Beijing Olympics.

The biggest questions at the Beijing Olympics hardly centered on who would win the six gold medals up for grabs.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport says Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's doping hearing will be held Sunday night with a ruling by Monday afternoon.

Germany has a new sliding champion.

Shaun White’s brilliant and transcendent Olympic career is over.

One of the most anticipated events at the Beijing Olympics is the imminent legal hearing in Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s doping case.

Be it sports, politics, hacking or war, the recent history of Russia’s relationship with the world can be summed up in one phrase: They get away with it.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s right to compete in the women’s event at the Beijing Olympics will be decided at an urgent hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The International Olympic Committee says there will be no repercussions for the Ukrainian skeleton athlete who flashed a small sign urging peace in his homeland at the end of a run.

Reporters from abroad and Chinese reporters have different approaches to the daily news briefings at the Beijing Olympics.

Kamila Valieva was back on the Olympic ice at the Beijing Games for the individual competition.

Irene Schouten of the Netherlands has completed a speedskating sweep of the women’s distance events at the Beijing Olympics, setting another Olympic record with a victory in the 5,000 meters.

Olympic figure skating favorite Kamila Valieva practiced as usual Thursday morning at the Beijing Olympics, despite reports that the Russian 15-year-old has tested positive for a banned substance.

The winners in the team figure skating competition at the Beijing Olympics still have not received their medals two days later because of what the IOC says are “legal issues.”.

World champion Kamila Valieva cemented her status as the gold medal-favorite at the Beijing Games by putting forward a winning short program to help the Russians take the lead in the team event.

Tara Lipinski was a sprightly 15-year-old ballerina-on-ice when she won figure skating gold at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.