WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday, Aug. 6, is set to host more than 120 athletes who competed for Team USA in the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games in Milano Cortina, Italy, according to the White House.
The evening celebration, which will take place at the White House Rose Garden, is scheduled to include members of the USA Winter Olympic teams for figure skating, curling, luge, speedskating, bobsledding, snowboarding, and alpine skiing, among other sports, as well as Paralympic athletes in several sports.
"President Trump will proudly celebrate Team USA's historic achievements at the Winter Olympics with a special reception at the People's House," White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said in a statement. "Our patriotic athletes showed the world American excellence, and their extraordinary performances united us all in our love of country."
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Cher will have to pay more than $1 million in legal fees after a protracted court battle over royalties.
The Believe singer had applied to recoup her legal bills after battling her ex-husband's widow, Mary Bono, in court.
Cher, 80, had spent $1,023,605 (£764,810) on top-ranked legal representation as she worked to fight Mary, the widow of Cher's ex-husband Sonny Bono, after Mary stopped royalty payments to Cher.
The singer's 1978 divorce settlement with Sonny had previously entitled Cher to a permanent 50% cut of any publishing revenue from songs written before their split, including their monster hit, I Got You Babe.
Mary discontinued the 50-50 royalty payments in 2021, 23 years after Sonny's 1998 death in a skiing accident, claiming she had "termination right".
However in December 2025, a judge determined Cher should continue to be entitled to the payments - at which point Cher attempted to retrieve the money she had spent warring with Mary in court.

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It was a point that encapsulated Jannik Sinner's journey to a second Wimbledon ****** le.
In a tight final, Sinner had a chance to break opponent Alexander Zverev's serve. He fell to the ground mid-rally, picked himself back up and forced an error out of Zverev to clinch the first break of serve almost three hours into the match.
Sinner would not be denied from there.
The Italian world number one again dropped to the ground two games later - but this time in celebration after completing a four-set comeback victory to become only the 10th man in the Open era to retain the Wimbledon men's singles ****** le.
Once again triumphant at the only tennis tournament he would watch as a child - when the sport he would come to master still had to compete with skiing and football for his attention - the manner of his fifth Grand Slam success suggested normal service had resumed.

Nordic combined athletes around the world are mourning the sport's disappearance from the Olympic stage after the International Olympic Committee announced Tuesday it was cutting the discipline from the 2030 Games in favor of freeride skiing and snowboarding.
The sport, which features ski jumping and cross-country skiing, has been a part of every Winter Olympics since the Games began in 1924. But in a rare move, the IOC cut the discipline, citing struggling viewership, audience and podium diversity and depth.
"Today the biggest defeat didn't happen on the field," wrote French Nordic combined athlete Romane Baud on Instagram. "It happened in the IOC meeting room. Congratulations iocofficial you broke thousand hearts and dreams."
The decision is particularly heartbreaking for women's Nordic combined athletes such as Baud, who never got to compete at the Olympic level in the first place. Nordic combined has been men-only at the Olympics, and it was the only sport at the 2026 Games without a women's competition.
Though women's Nordic combined didn't host its first World Cup season until 2020-21, advocacy had grown since then to add a women's category to the Olympic program. In 2022, the IOC denied the request for the 2026 Games, instead telling the entire sport it needed to grow its profile to keep its spot in the Olympics.

The German alpine resort of Oberstdorf will host the Nordic skiing world championships for a fourth time, the governing ski and snowboard federation FIS has said.
The FIS said that its council favoured Oberstdorf for the championships in cross country skiing, ski jumping and Nordic combined over Slovenian bidders Planica.
"I want to congratulate Oberstdorf on a remarkable bid," new FIS president Alexander Ospelt said.
The decision was originally planned for the FIS congress in June but delayed. The announcement now came on the same day as Nordic combined was axed from the Olympic programme for the 2030 Winter Games.
Oberstdorf previously hosted the Nordic worlds in 1987, 2005 and 2021, the latter behind closed doors amid the coronavirus pandemic.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Schumer called on the International Olympic Committee to expand Nordic combined in the Winter Olympics by including the women’s competition in the 2030 games.
Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in cross-country skiing and ski jumping.
Schumer explained young women train in the North Country for a chance to represent Team USA and allowing women to participate is a matter of fairness and opportunity.
“Every year, women from across the country train at world-class facilities in upstate New York like Lake Placid’s Olympic Ski Jumping Complex and Mt. Van Hoevenberg for a chance to represent Team USA in Nordic Combined. But they are excluded from competing on the Olympic stage because there is no women’s competition,” Schumer said in a statement.
“As American women excel at the Women’s World Championship, allowing women to compete is about more than fairness. It’s about recognizing their extraordinary athletic accomplishments.

Jun. 27—For the second time in the past four years, Susannah Scaroni is an ESPY Award nominee.
Scaroni, who was raised in Tekoa, was dominant on the World Marathon Majors circuit last year, claiming women's wheelchair victories in the Boston, Sydney, Chicago and New York Marathons.
She was nominated Thursday in the category of "Best Athlete With A Disability." Other nominees in the category are Jake Adicoff (para Nordic skiing), Declan Farmer (para hockey) and Oksana Masters (para cross-country skiing).
Scaroni was also nominated in the same category in 2023, following her breakout performance at the 2021 Paralympics in Tokyo.
"I just think the ESPYS are so cool because every sports fan is represented and for someone like me who loves my sports and all para sports, we get to have that showcase alongside the world's biggest sports and best athletes," Scaroni said.

Olympic champion Bode Miller has publicly denied the allegations of possession drug.
The 48-year-old former alpine skiing racer was arrested earlier this month for possession of psilocybin mushrooms and pleaded not guilty to two counts of drug possession, according to court documents cited by ABC. He was released on a $5,000 cash bond.
Miller wrote on Instagram late on Tuesday that he was pulled over by police on a highway in the US state of Idaho.
"My friend, who was travelling with me, had a small amount of cannabis and a cannabis pipe in his possession, which I was unaware of," he added.
Idaho has strict drug laws. States such as Colorado and Oregon, on the other hand, have legalized the use of psilocybin for therapeutic purposes.

The Carolina Panthers are 2026 Stanley Cup winners after topping the Las Vegas Golden Knights on June 14, and the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics put cold-weather sports at the forefront of international sports fans' attention earlier this year.
While the arrival of summer has turned attention to MLB and the World Cup, the completion U.S. hockey's massive 2026 in the spotlight before hockey's hot-weather hiatus provides those of us at USA TODAY "250 for 250" central reason to look back at the best hockey, ice skating, speed skating, skiing and snowboarding athletes of all time.
Let's get to the list.
Now through July 4, USA TODAY Sports is releasing our "250 for 250" list of America's top homegrown athletes of all time. Each week we'll bring you all-time standouts from across the sports world and give readers a chance to vote on who should be featured. One other note: With this celebration of America's top sports figures, we're also recognizing the high schools that produced them, or the athlete's hometown if they took another path to stardom.
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Unique events deserve unique settings – in this case, from SAP Garden to the Stone Hall at Nymphenburg Palace. Thursday was dedicated to Munich's bid for the 2036, 2040 or 2044 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Representatives from politics, society and sport explained how the Bavarian capital plans to organise this major event. President Herbert Hainer once again reaffirmed the support of the German champions: "We at FC Bayern, with our more than 432,500 members worldwide, know how strongly sports bring people together – across borders, generations and social backgrounds." That is why the club supports "hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games in our home city: Munich is not just bidding for a few weeks of sports, but for an impact that will last for decades – both internally and externally." And one thing is clear, said Hainer in the presence of Minister-President Markus Söder, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, Mayor Dominik Krause and Duke Franz of Bavaria: "Munich is not only a cosmopolitan city with a heart, but also a global sports city with a heart."
In addition to Olympians such as long-time FC Bayern Basketball pro and current FCB youth coach Danilo Barthel, Felix Neureuther (alpine skiing), Alexandra Burghardt (sprint and bobsled), Sideris Tasiadis (canoeing), gold medalist Jessica von Bredow-Werndl (dressage), and Michael Teuber (cycling) as a representative of the Paralympic Games, talented young athletes like Bohan from FC Bayern's table tennis division were also in attendance. In front of around 200 invited guests, Bohan took part in a discussion with Hainer and shared how he discovered his passion for sports: while watching table tennis on TV during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, he started playing on a table in the playground, where he was discovered by an FCB coach – and is now training towards his big dream of one day competing in the Olympics himself. This is how sports should inspire: inspiration leads to getting active, developing oneself and and pursuing goals.
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Munich's sustainable concept is based on an Olympics of short distances: more than 90 percent of the venues are to be located within a 30km radius. The Olympic and Paralympic Village will once again be designed so that it can be used as an accessible residential area even after the major event, under the guiding principle of a "generations neighbourhood". The general consensus among city and state officials is that this would result in lower overall costs and represent an investment in the city's future.
"In 1972, as a young lad, I sold drinks at the Olympic Stadium in Munich because the Olympics have always fascinated me," Hainer said. "To this day, on my travels – formerly as CEO of adidas and now as president of FC Bayern – I sense that when people around the world think of Germany, they think of Bavaria and Muni

Eileen Gu, who earned a gold medal in freestyle skiing at the 2026 Winter Olympics, has reportedly upset her wealthy San Francisco neighbors.
Eileen, 22, and her family are accused of discarding a large pile of furniture and household items on the sidewalk of her California home. According to a Wednesday, June 10 report from the New York Post, the trash pile included a couch, mattress, broken furniture, books, clothing and other household items.
Neighbors filed a complaint to the city on Monday, June 8, alleging that the garbage "obscured a fire hydrant from view," the outlet reported.
When a neighbor reached out to Eileen's mother, Yan Gu, she claimed she had placed the items neatly on the curb around 1 a.m., packed into 20 boxes and covered in case of rain, according to SF Standard. However, the complaint to the city was sent in around 8 p.m. on Monday evening.
Yan added that either "vicious people" or scavengers must have strewn the items haphazardly. She also claimed that someone pulled out a shirt with Eileen's name on it, calling it a "malicious act."

Saugatucks Neave Rewa keeps record-breaking career going, lands college spot

SAUGATUCK - Neave Rewa sets a record nearly every time she steps on the pitch.
The Saugatuck soccer senior broke the school record for career goals last year and it grows every time the ball hits the back of the net.
"The biggest thing is she is so determined to achieve what she wants to achieve. When she loses a ball, her whole body changes and you know she is going to get it back," Saugatuck coach Neal Phillips said. "This had to be tough on her to switch coaches and systems as a senior and she is still thriving."
More: Saugatuck's Neave Rewa claims state skiing championship in slalom
Rewa said part of that stems from learning from older players in the program that has become one of the best small-school programs in West Michigan.

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