Olympic Year in Review: Photos

By Dec 23, 2015, 11:41 AM EST
AP
1 Comment

OlympicTalk takes a look back at the year in Olympic sports this week.

Today, we review 50 memorable images of the year, courtesy of The Associated Press, Getty Images, national governing bodies, international sports federations and social media.

Here were last year’s 50 memorable photos.

Check out more of this week’s year-in-review posts here:

Olympic Year in Review: Winter Sports | Summer Sports | Photos | Social Media

Four Hills Tournament ski jumping
1/4: World champion ski jumper Severin Freund takes off at the Four Hills Tournament in Innsbruck, Austria.
Boston Herald
1/9: The morning after Boston was named the 2024 U.S. Olympic bid city.
Lindsey Vonn
1/19: Lindsey Vonn celebrates after breaking the women’s World Cup wins record.
Tiger Woods, Lindsey Vonn
1/19: Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn kiss after Vonn breaks the women’s record for World Cup wins in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
Gracie Gold, Frank Carroll
1/23: Gracie Gold is weirded out by coach Frank Carroll at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
Johnny Weir, Tara Lipinski
2/1: Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski cover the Super Bowl.

Bode Miller
2/5: Bode Miller crashes in the World Championships super-G.

Mikaela Shiffrin
2/14: Mikaela Shiffrin en route to winning the World Championships slalom.

Yuzuru Hanyu
3/28: Yuzuru Hanyu at the World Figure Skating Championships.
Javier Fernandez
3/28: Javier Fernandez reacts to winning the World Figure Skating Championships.

To the world we say @barackobama #USPresident #ForeverFaster

A photo posted by Usain St.Leo Bolt (@usainbolt) on

London diver
5/3: An intruder dives at the FINA London World Series.
Jordan Burroughs
5/21: Jordan Burroughs wrestles a Cuban opponent in Times Square, New York.
Mo Farah
7/9: Mo Farah reacts after winning a 5000m race in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Daryl Homer
7/14: American Daryl Homer floats at the World Fencing Championships.

Lisandra Guerra
7/18: Cuban track cyclist Lisandra Guerra ends up with a piece of wood in her arm from a fall at the Pan American Games.
Pan American Games boxing
7/21: Boxing at the Pan American Games.

Boston 2024
7/28: The morning after the Boston 2024 bid is dropped.
Water Polo
8/7: The U.S. women’s water polo team celebrates its World Championship.
Alzain Tareq
8/8: Alzain Tareq, 10, of Bahrain competes at the World Swimming Championships.

8/8: Katie Ledecky wins the World Championships 800m freestyle.

Michael Phelps
8/8: Michael Phelps reacts after winning the 100m butterfly at the U.S. Championships.
Usain Bolt, Justin Gatlin
8/23: Usain Bolt outleans Justin Gatlin to win the World Championships 100m by .01.
Rolanda Bell
8/24: Rolanda Bell of Panama falls in a 3000m steeplechase heat at the World Championships.
Usain Bolt, Justin Gatlin
8/27: Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin share a laugh after the World Championships 200m.
Ashton Eaton
8/29: Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record.

8/30: The U.S. women’s 4x400m relay team does “Charlie’s Angels.”

9/17: Pau Gasol leads Spain past France at EuroBasket, clinching an Olympic berth.

Alison, Bruno, Phil Dalhausser, Nick Lucena
9/30: Beach volleyball stars Alison and Bruno and Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena face off on a helipad in Florida.

10/3: Usain Bolt at Oktoberfest in Munich.

Arthur Zanetti
Unknown date: Brazil gymnast Arthur Zanetti performs on still rings on Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro in a promo shoot. (Adidas)
Kohei Uchimura
10/28: Kohei Uchimura falls off high bar at the World Championships.
Kohei Uchimura
10/28: Kohei Uchimura and Japan celebrate winning the World Championships team title.
Gabby Douglas
10/29: Gabby Douglas performs on balance beam at the World Championships.

Uneven bars
10/31: A four-way tie for gold on uneven bars at the World Gymnastics Championships.

Canadian curler Brad Gushue after this fall at a competition.

work hard in silence let your success be the noise {14 Worlds Medals| 3years}

A photo posted by Simone Biles (@simonebiles) on

Lindsey Vonn
12/4: Lindsey Vonn wins a World Cup downhill in Lake Louise, Canada.
Lindsey Vonn
12/12: Lindsey Vonn with Santa Claus after winning a World Cup giant slalom in Sweden.

Olympic Year in Review: Winter Sports | Summer Sports | Photos | Social Media

Olympian Derrick Mein ends U.S. men’s trap drought at shotgun worlds

By Sep 28, 2022, 12:56 PM EDT
Derrick Mein
Getty
0 Comments

Tokyo Olympian Derrick Mein became the first U.S. male shooter to win a world title in the trap event since 1966, prevailing at the world shotgun championships in Osijek, Croatia, on Wednesday.

Mein, who grew up on a small farm in Southeast Kansas, hunting deer and quail, nearly squandered a place in the final when he missed his last three shots in the semifinal round after hitting his first 22. He rallied in a sudden-death shoot-off for the last spot in the final by hitting all five of his targets.

He hit 33 of 34 targets in the final to win by two over Brit Nathan Hales with one round to spare.

The last U.S. man to win an Olympic trap title was Donald Haldeman in 1976.

Mein, 37, was 24th in his Olympic debut in Tokyo (and placed 13th with Kayle Browning in the mixed-gender team event).

The U.S. swept the Tokyo golds in the other shotgun event — skeet — with Vincent Hancock and Amber English. Browning took silver in women’s trap.

OlympicTalk is on Apple News. Favorite us!

More: Olympics

Mo Farah
Mo Farah withdraws before London Marathon
Noah Lyles, Josephus Lyles
Noah, Josephus Lyles have unfinished business after record-breaking sprint...
USA Basketball
U.S. women win record 27th consecutive FIBA World Cup game

Mo Farah withdraws before London Marathon

By Sep 28, 2022, 12:22 PM EDT
Mo Farah
Getty
0 Comments

British track legend Mo Farah withdrew before Sunday’s London Marathon, citing a right hip injury before what would have been his first 26.2-mile race in nearly two years.

Farah, who swept the 2012 and 2016 Olympic track titles at 5000m and 10,000m, said he hoped “to be back out there” next April, when the London Marathon returns to its traditional month after COVID moved it to the fall for three consecutive years. Farah turns 40 on March 23.

“I’ve been training really hard over the past few months and I’d got myself back into good shape and was feeling pretty optimistic about being able to put in a good performance,” in London, Farah said in a press release. “However, over the past 10 days I’ve been feeling pain and tightness in my right hip. I’ve had extensive physio and treatment and done everything I can to be on the start line, but it hasn’t improved enough to compete on Sunday.”

Farah switched from the track to the marathon after the 2017 World Championships and won the 2018 Chicago Marathon in a then-European record time of 2:05:11. Belgium’s Bashir Abdi now holds the record at 2:03:36.

Farah returned to the track in a failed bid to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, then shifted back to the roads.

Sunday’s London Marathon men’s race is headlined by Ethiopians Kenenisa Bekele and Birhanu Legese, the second- and third-fastest marathoners in history.

OlympicTalk is on Apple News. Favorite us!

More: Olympics

Derrick Mein
Olympian Derrick Mein ends U.S. men’s trap drought at shotgun worlds
Noah Lyles, Josephus Lyles
Noah, Josephus Lyles have unfinished business after record-breaking sprint...
USA Basketball
U.S. women win record 27th consecutive FIBA World Cup game