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An undated photo provided by the Lake Geneva Yacht Club showed Mr. Melges in 1953. “"Buddy was one of the best sailors the world has ever seen,” famed yachtsman Dennis Conner said.. “He will not be matched.”

Buddy Melges, American sailing champion, dies at 93

Mr. Melges, a Wisconsin native, became the first sailor to win both an Olympic gold medal and the sport’s top prize, the America’s Cup.

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Former US ski racer Bode Miller was inducted into the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Montana in March.

Bode Miller is older, wiser, and a Hall of Famer, but he still skis really fast and is as authentic as ever

“The one thing that I think I am truly sort of proud of is that I was authentic really throughout my whole career,” said the New Hampshire native, who was recently inducted into the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame.

Lower Bobby's Run at Waterville Valley in New Hampshire was the site of the US national moguls championships in March.

New Hampshire’s Waterville Valley to host World Cup freestyle skiing events in 2024 and 2025

Men’s and women’s moguls and dual moguls events will be held on the resort's Lower Bobby's Run, a 246-meter trail that reaches a pitch of 34 degrees.

Tori Bowie gestured after receiving the gold medal for winning the 100 meters at the 2017 World Championships in London.

US sprinter Tori Bowie, a three-time Olympic medalist, dies at 32

Bowie won gold, silver, and bronze medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games.

Gabbie Izzo (shown training at Norwood's Skating Club of Boston) is switching to pairs at an opportune time, with the Russians banned from international competition.

The US needs more talent in pairs skating. Harvard’s Gabbie Izzo could help.

The 2019 US Junior champion and 2022 Olympic alternate is switching from solo skating to pairs, which she finds far more exhilarating.

FILE - Olympic-medalist and former Moët Hennessy executive Herb Douglas attends the unveiling of artist Kadir Nelson's inspired art sculpture titled, "The Major," at the World Trade Center, Wednesday, May 15, 2019, in New York. Douglas, who turned a chance encounter with Jesse Owens as a young teenager into fuel to win a bronze medal in the long jump at the 1948 Olympics, has died. He was 101. The University of Pittsburgh, where Douglas starred on both the football and track teams before later serving in various roles for his alma mater, said Douglas died Saturday, April 22, 2023. (Andrew Kelly/AP Images for Hennessy, File)

1948 Olympic bronze medalist Herb Douglas dies at 101

The Olympian kept close ties both to his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh, and to his mentor, Jesse Owens.

Kamila Valieva's standout skate at age 15 helped the Russians take gold in the team event.

WADA eyes verdict this year in teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva’s Olympic doping case

Valieva’s positive test for a banned heart medication was revealed at the Beijing Olympics.

Dick Fosbury showed off his "flop" technique at a track meet at Madison Square Garden in February 1968.

Dick Fosbury, who reinvented high jumping with his ‘Fosbury Flop,’ dies at 76

Fosbury used his innovative technique — now standard in high jumping — to win a gold medal at the 1968 Olympics.

With her 87th World Cup win, Mikaela Shiffrin stands alone.

The incomparable Mikaela Shiffrin has a solid case for greatest skier ever, male or female

With her 87th World Cup victory, she eclipsed the mark of the great Ingemar Stenmark, who himself has stated, “She’s much better than I was."

Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates with her team in Are, Sweden after tying the record for most World Cup skiing victories.

Mikaela Shiffrin moves into tie for most wins all time with 86th World Cup victory

Shiffrin’s win matched the overall record set by Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark 34 years ago. And she could break it this weekend.

Weather conditions changed significantly during World Cup racing Sunday, putting Mikaela Shiffrin at a disadvantage.

Mikaela Shiffrin’s quest for win No. 86 comes full circle to site of her first career victory

Shiffrin rounded off a three-race weekend in Norway on Sunday by finishing seventh in a super-G affected by changing weather conditions.

Mikaela Shiffrin clinched the World Cup title with seven events to go.

Mikaela Shiffrin locked up her fifth World Cup title, but win 86 will wait another day

Shiffrin now trails only Annemarie Moser-Proell for most overall women's World Cup championships after moving past Lindsey Vonn.

Brianna Decker finished her national team career with 81 goals and 89 assists for 170 points in 147 career games.

3-time USA Hockey Olympian Brianna Decker retires

The 31-year-old Decker was a member of the gold medal-winning team at the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea and also won Olympic silver medals in 2014 and 2022.

Kamila Valieva's doping case overshadowed last year’s Beijing Olympics.

Skating body joins appeal against decision not to ban Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva for doping

The appeals follow a Russian anti-doping tribunal's decision that Valieva bore “no fault or negligence” for the positive test in December 2021.

Kamila Valieva, showing skating in an October 2022 event, was 15 during the Beijing Olympics.

WADA seeks four-year ban for Russian skater Kamila Valieva, whose doping case marred 2022 Beijing Olympics

The teenage skater won Olympic gold before it was announced that a sample she gave two months before tested positive for a banned substance.

Massachusetts' Lynn Jennings is one of the greatest American distance runners in history. In 2017, she moved to action after learning another athlete's story of abuse, she began working to hold her former coach, John Babington, responsible for sexually molesting her and others during his career coaching women at Harvard, Wellesley, and in the Olympics.

A reckoning, decades in the making: Famed Olympic runner Lynn Jennings chases down the renowned coach who abused her as a teen

John Babington was sexually abusing the future Olympian while he helped turn her into a world-class athlete. He then abused a fellow runner. Years later, their paths crossed as part of Jennings's pursuit of justice.

Mikaela Shiffrin (left) and her coach Mike Day during a 2020 race in Croatia.

Mikaela Shiffrin unexpectedly splits with longtime coach in middle of world championships

Shiffrin informed coach Mike Day she planned to go in a new direction after the season, and he decided to leave the circuit.

It wasn't a perfect skate, but Ilia Malinin did enough to win his first US figure skating championship.

Ilia Malinin overcomes miscues to win his first US men’s figure skating championship

Malinin joins 15-year-old Isabeau Levito, the women's winner, as a first-time national champion, representing potentially the dawn of a new era in US singles skating.

Alex Carpenter (right) was a spark for the US team in the recent Rivalry Series against Canada.

Hockey star Alex Carpenter never stopped going, and her game is better than ever

Being left off the 2018 US Olympic team was hardly the end of the road; in fact, it motivated her even more to keep her career in a high gear.

Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates in Kronplatz, Italy, after her World Cup race win on Tuesday.

Mikaela Shiffrin wins record 83rd World Cup race, breaking tie with Lindsey Vonn

Shiffrin now needs only three more wins to match Ingemark Stenmark’s overall mark — between men and women — of 86 victories.

Mikaela Shiffrin finished fourth in the downhill, far from her strongest event, in Italy as she attempted to break a tie with Lindsey Vonn for most World Cup victories.

The chase goes on for Mikaela Shiffrin, who places fourth in downhill race in Italy

Two more races are scheduled in Cortina over the weekend, with another downhill on Saturday followed by a super-G on Sunday.

A day after finishing sixth, Mikaela Shiffrin had the first and last runs of the day and never was threatened in between.

Mikaela Shiffrin ties Lindsey Vonn for most women’s World Cup wins by dominating a giant slalom in Slovenia for No. 82

Shiffrin led from start to finish and can now break Vonn’s mark in a slalom event on Tuesday in Austria.

Running

Former Wellesley College and Olympic running coach barred after sexual misconduct investigation

“In the course of the SafeSport proceedings, I acknowledged some past conduct and clearly expressed regret or remorse that the conduct occurred,” Babington said.

FIGURE SKATING

Japan’s Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara edge Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier at Grand Prix Final

With a second-place finish, Knierim and Frazier are the first U.S. pairs team to medal at a GPF.

B.A.A. Half Marathon

Photos: After a three-year hiatus, the BAA Half Marathon returned on a chilly, rainy morning

Geoffrey Koech and Viola Chepngeno pulled off a Kenyan sweep of Sunday's event held at Franklin Park.

OLYMPICS

More than a decade after missing Olympic victory by less than a second, American Lashinda Demus will get her gold medal

A decade after taking home the silver medal, Demus' hardware will be upgraded after it was stripped from Russian Natalya Antyukh for doping.

Jim Redmond, who created Olympics moment helping son, dies at 81

An intimate moment between a father and a son became instant Olympic history.

gymnastics

US Gymnastics Championships: Five Massachusetts men take their first steps toward 2024 Olympics

Worcester’s Stephen Nedoroscik, reigning world champion on the pommel horse, leads the strongest contingent of Bay State men’s gymnasts in recent memory.

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Red Sox

The only action on the field at Fenway Park was the solid effort put in by the grounds crew.

Postponement of series opener ahead of day/night doubleheader adds to schedule issues for Red Sox, Rays

Friday night's game will be made up Monday, which was originally scheduled as an offday for both teams.

Red Sox, with doubleheader already set for Saturday, rained out against Rays

The teams will make up Friday’s game at 4:05 p.m. Monday. They were already due to play a doubleheader Saturday, with 1:05 and 6:05 p.m. start times, the first scheduled twinbill at Fenway since 1978.

Red Sox’ Chris Sale goes on IL with left shoulder inflammation: ‘I hate feeling like this’

" I started having fun playing baseball again, and now I’m back to not having fun. And that sucks,” Sale said.

Patriots

Draft-night footage shows how Patriots discussed trade offer from Commanders

The clips released by the Commanders offered a glimpse at how draft-day trade discussions begin and evolve, but often fizzle.

It’s obvious why the Patriots drafted kicker Chad Ryland: ‘He was money, man’

The Patriots drafted the Maryland standout in the fourth round, and even traded up to do so. Why?

Tom Brady talks about returning to Foxborough in September and his relationship with Bill Belichick

“I’ve always felt like I’ve been a member of that organization,” Brady said of the Patriots.

Bruins

In their second trip to the Stanley Cup Final, the Knights have the added advantage of a front-line center in Jack Eichel, who is getting his first chance to make his mark in the playoffs.

Jack Eichel relishes the competition of the playoffs for the first time

Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said Eichel’s game aligns perfectly with the team’s other centers."

Boston’s Stanley Cup nightmare has come true: It’s the Panthers vs. Bruce Cassidy’s Golden Knights

The Stanley Cup Final features the team that bounced the Bruins from the playoffs against the coach they fired after last season.

Penguins name former Maple Leafs GM Kyle Dubas as club’s new president of hockey operations

Dubas was hired by the Penguins less than two weeks after he was fired as general manager of Toronto.

Celtics

Screenshot from Boston Globe Today Sports on June 2, 2023.

Watch: Gary Washburn and Ben Volin chat about Celtics, Patriots and more on Boston Globe Today

How does Jaylen Brown fit the Celtics going forward? Can we trust Mac Jones? Why is now the time to jump on the Red Sox bandwagon? Watch for our experts' take.

History of NBA super-max deals leaves Celtics and Jaylen Brown at a tricky intersection

Not every team has been willing to commit so much money, not every player has been willing to take it, and how do you know that a player is worth it?

Danny Ainge, the principal architect of this Celtics team, has some thoughts on their playoff run

The team's former president of basketball ops defended coach Joe Mazzulla's leadership and said Brad Stevens will figure out what went wrong.