U.S. ice dancers Meryl Davis (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Charlie White (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) captured their second world ice dancing title at the 2013 ISU World Figure Skating Championships on March 16 in London, Ontario. The five-time national champions compiled 189.56 points to complete a perfect season.

Olympic champion Kim Yu-na of South Korea captured the ladies title at the World Figure Skating Championships.

Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the ice dance title for the second time in three years on Saturday.

The head of squash's governing body says he doesn't consider wrestling a "big threat" as eight sports fight for a single place on the program of the 2020 Olympics.

Russia's Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov claimed their first-ever gold medal at the World Figure Skating Championships following Friday's completion of the pairs competition.

Canadian Patrick Chan won his third consecutive men's world figure skating title.

Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White hold a lead of 3.25 points on reigning world champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir after the completion of the Ice Dancing short program during Thursday's World Figure Skating Championships.

Olympic champion Kim Yu-na of Korea captured the short program at the World Figure Skating Championships.

Dropping wrestling from the Olympics would not sit well with Vladimir Putin.

Patrick Chan placed first in the men's competition of Wednesday's short program at the World Figure Skating Championships.

The Russian tandem of Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov placed first in the pairs competition of Wednesday's short program at the World Figure Skating Championships.

Ted Ligety (Park City, Utah) secured his fourth career Audi FIS Alpine World Cup giant slalom overall title with a wire-to-wire victory on March 9 in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Ligety shredded down the rutted course in 2:35.43 to capture his fifth world cup giant slalom victory of the season.

With the Olympics less than a year away, IOC inspectors are visiting Sochi again to check on preparations for the 2014 Winter Games.

Olympian athlete Oscar Pistorius, charged with the Valentine's Day murder of his girlfriend, is not suicidal, his family announced Monday.

Los Angeles wants back into the Olympics, throwing its hat into the ring to bring them back to southern California on the 40th anniversary of its last turn as host - the 1984 Games that revived the flagging reputation of the brand.

Kicked out of the Olympics and desperately trying to get back in, wrestling hopes a wardrobe change will wow those set to rule on the sport's fate.

Spain's government on Friday approved tougher anti-doping laws to align with World Anti-Doping Agency standards and bolster Madrid's bid for the 2020 Olympics.

Remember that "great message to women" the International Olympic Committee was trumpeting all last spring and summer, the one about how the participation of a few token female athletes from the Gulf states at the London Games would crack open a wider world of possibilities?

Jenn Suhr (Fredonia, N.Y.) set the indoor pole vault world record as she cleared 5.02 meters/16-5.50 feet to capture the 2013 USA Indoor Track & Field Championships title on March 2 in Albuquerque, N.M. Meanwhile, Will Leer (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Mary Cain (Bronxville, N.Y.) claimed the men's and women's 1,600-meter titles, and Ryan Whiting (Harrisburg, Pa.) won the men's shot put.

Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, Alaska) and Jessie Diggins (Afton, Minn.) captured gold in the team sprint at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships on Feb. 24 in Val di Fiemme, France. The duo finished with a time of 20:24.44, nearly eight seconds clear of second place. The victory marks the first world championship gold for the U.S.

The bail hearing for South African Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius was adjourned on Thursday and will continue Friday.

Tim Burke (Paul Smiths, N.Y.) made U.S. biathlon team history on Feb. 14, winning silver in the 20-kilometer individual event at the 2013 IBU World Championships in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic. The finish marked Burke's first-career world championships medal and the first for a U.S. athlete in 26 years. The U.S. men finished 12th in the 4x7.5K, while the women finished 11th in the relay. Lowell Bailey (Lake Placid, N.Y.) added a 13th-place finish in the men's 12.5K pursuit.

South African Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius will spend yet another night in jail, as his bail hearing for the killing of his girlfriend will continue Thursday.

South African Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius will spend another night in jail, as his bail hearing for the killing of his girlfriend continues Wednesday.

South African Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius has reportedly been charged with shooting and killing his girlfriend in what may have been a tragic accident.

Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius has reportedly been arrested after a 30-year-old woman was shot dead at his home in Pretoria, South Africa.

The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee said Tuesday that it has recommended dropping wrestling as a sport from the 2020 Olympic Games.

Ted Ligety (Park City, Utah) captured gold in the super-G at the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships on Feb. 6 in Schladming, Austria. Running 10th in flat light, Ligety knifed the bottom section of the course to move into the lead over France's Gauthier De Tessieres by 0.2 of a second. It marked his third world championships medal and second gold.

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge officially invited nations of the world to take part in the 2014 Winter Games, set to open exactly one year from Thursday in Sochi, Russia.

Olympic ski champion Lindsey Vonn suffered torn knee ligaments and a leg fracture in a crash during a super-G run Tuesday at the world championships in Austria.

Olympic ski champion Lindsey Vonn crashed during a super-G run Tuesday at the world championships in Austria and was airlifted to a local hospital.

Sean Doherty (Center Conway, N.H.) became the first U.S. biathlete to win three individual medals at a single world championships when he captured silver in the 12.5-kilometer pursuit, gold in the 10K pursuit and silver in the 7.5K sprint at the IBU Youth and Junior World Championships, held Jan. 23-Feb. 1 in Obertilliach, Austria. Casey Smith (Methow Valley, Wash.) was the top U.S. finisher in the men's 15K, taking 37th place. Jordan McElroy (Truckee, Calif.), Jacob Ellingson (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Doherty finished ninth in the men's relay, while the women's team - featuring Anna Kubek (Duluth, Minn.), Mikaela Paluszek (Farmington, N.H.) and Aleksandra Zakrzewska (Burlington, Vt.) - placed 13th in the 6K relay.

Shaun White (Carlsbad, Calif.) clinched his sixth consecutive X Games superpipe title on Jan. 27 in Aspen, Colo. White's first- run score of 95.00 was good enough for gold, but the eight-time superpipe champion upped his score to 98.00 on his second run to win the title. On the women's side, the U.S. swept the podium led by five-time X Games champion Kelly Clark (West Dover, Vt.). Clark's third-run score of 90.33 was enough to overtake Elena Hight's (South Lake Tahoe, Calif.) score of 90.00, while Arielle Gold (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) captured bronze.

Max Aaron moved from fourth to first at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Sunday.

Despite two falls Saturday night, Ashley Wagner repeated as women's champion at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Meryl Davis and Charlie White finished with a competition-best score of 197.44 and easily captured their fifth straight ice dance crown at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Saturday.

Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir won their first pairs title in placing first at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Saturday.

Jeremy Abbott is on target to win his fourth U.S. Figure Skating title, as the 2010 Olympian took the lead after Friday's short program.

Meryl Davis and Charlie White scored a 79.02 on their short dance program to take the lead at the Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Ashley Wagner won the short program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Thursday.

Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir placed first in the pairs competition of Thursday's short program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Lindsey Vonn (Vail, Colo.) climbed to the top of the podium at a world cup event for the 58th time in her career on Jan. 19 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Vonn, who has battled illness all season, won the women's downhill race by nearly half a second. Vonn also finished seventh in the women's super-G, just behind teammate Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, Calif.), who placed fifth.

Reigning Olympic champion skater Evan Lysacek has withdrawn from the 2013 U.S. Figure Skating Championships due to his extended recovery from a sports hernia.

Lance Armstrong has been stripped of the bronze medal he won in the individual time trial at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Noelle Pikus-Pace (Orem, Utah) earned her first world cup gold medal since 2004 in the women's skeleton race on Jan. 11 in Koenigssee, Germany. With a steady snow fall throughout the competition, Pikus-Pace had a combined time of 1:47.51 and beat the field by 0.41 seconds.

The U.S. National Junior Hockey Team defeated Sweden, 3-1, to capture gold at the 2013 IIHF World Junior Championship on Jan. 5 in Ufa, Russia. The team rebounded from two early-tournament losses to Russia and Canada, winning its final four games to claim the championship. The run to gold included a 5-1 victory over Canada in the semifinals, avenging the earlier defeat.