Twelve young athletes from East Oakland have qualified to compete in the 2025 USA National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships in Georgia.

Teachers, caregivers, and others were all there to cheer on the athletes. WATCH: 2022 Special Olympics USA Games underway in Orlando. This event was a special opportunity for young kids who don ...

The news of the Winter Games coming to Salt Lake City in 2034 was huge for young Utah athletes with Olympic dreams on their mind.

The US Region 6 Junior Olympics are underway in the Capital City and young athletes from all over the Southeast are competing. The Heptathlon and Decathlon athletes from various age groups 18 ...

For Team USA, 13 is the youngest an athlete can be to compete in the Olympics. But athletes must also comply with each individual sport's governing International Federation, which sets its own age ...

Special Olympics Young Athletes is an early childhood program for children with and without disabilities, ages 2-7 years old. Young Athletes introduce basic sport skills like running, kicking and ...

Through Friday’s events here at the trials, 51 of the athletes — about 75 percent of the total — who are assured spots in Rio with the U.S. Olympic team are first-timers.

The sport brought with it a slew of young athletes, most of whom were teenagers. The first female skateboarder to win a gold medal was Momiji Nishiya, who was 13 when she won gold in Toyko in ...

The Olympics are all about competing on the world’s biggest stage, and one of the things the Games do every four years is highlight exceptional performances by younger and older athletes ...

Some of those gymnasts were as young as 8. Some were in their 20s. “We need to be on guard for individuals and entities who are going to make raising the age minimum sound like an easy fix ...

“It’s advantageous for the young gymnast to see that your career can go past the age of 16,” Hart says. “When athletes are very young, they're very impressionable.” ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Olympics in Paris is kicking off and some local young athletes with big dreams will be tuning in. Kids on the boys and girls Elite Gymnastix teams practice for five ...