Dan Wolken
@danwolken.bsky.social
Senior writer for Yahoo! Sports. College football, college basketball, Olympics, tennis, horse racing and more
The Olympics has a Russia problem — again — as we head toward the 2028 Games in LA Column for @yahoosports.bsky.social sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
The Olympics has a Russia problem heading toward 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles
As the 2026 Games head toward the finish line, new questions arise about Russia's place in the Olympics.
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SkiMo made its Olympics debut on Thursday! As a sport, it makes absolutely no sense. And it was pretty awesome! Column for @yahoosports.bsky.social sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
Winter Olympics: Ski mountaineering makes no sense ... and it's sort of awesome
Skimo made its Olympic debut. Time will tell if it sticks around for another Winter Games.
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The IOC has quietly removed all traces of a controversial T-shirt commemorating Hitler’s 1936 Olympics in Berlin from its online store after it garnered significant attention over the weekend. Why are they selling Nazi memorabilia in the first place? sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
Why would the IOC make available a T-shirt commemorating Adolf Hitler's Olympics?
The International Olympic Committee has quietly removed the link to a t-shirt in its online store commemorating the 1936 Berlin Games that were held in Nazi Germany.
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One of my hottest (and best) takes: It’s time to move basketball to the Winter Olympics. sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
Why basketball should be in the Winter Olympics
The Summer Olympics simply doesn't need basketball, but the Winter Games could use the star power.
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As usual, Eileen Gu was the center of attention for the Big Air finals. But the unmatched toughness of “Mighty Meg” Oldham turned out to be the story of the night. Column for @yahoosports.bsky.social sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
Winter Olympics 2026: Eileen Gu won a silver medal in freeski big air. The better story is Canada's Mighty Meg, who won gold
Megan Oldham's Olympic dreams began by skiing off the roof of the family garage.
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Eileen Gu may compete for China — fact that generates a lot of takes on social media. But the only entity she truly represents is Eileen Gu, Inc. My @yahoosports.bsky.social column sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
Eileen Gu may compete for China, but the only entity she truly represents is Eileen Gu, Inc.
The American-born Gu has become a lightning rod for political outrage, but really what she's doing is playing the system for all it's worth.
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Everyone has a theory for the Malinin Meltdown. But trying to diagnose it misses the point. Sometimes we simply need to see failure to understand what true greatness means. sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
Ilia Malinin’s meltdown proved the point: Winning Olympic gold isn’t supposed to be easy
It’s because the Olympics are so hard that anybody cares in the first place.
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The Olympics has a new judging controversy in figure skating. It happens every time. Is AI judging the answer? Can it transform the way all sports are officiated? Jeremy Bloom believes so - and has built a company trying to prove it. sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
Growing figure skating controversy sparks big question: Can AI fix officiating in sports?
Were Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates robbed of a gold medal? Former Olympian Jeremy Bloom wants to use AI to help end these kinds of judging controversies.
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Chloe Kim was on the cusp of history. She ended up passing the baton. My column on a dramatic and emotional night in Livigno, where tough-as-nails 17-year old Gaon Choi ended Kim’s eight-year Olympic halfpipe reign. “It’s such a full circle moment” sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
Winter Olympics 2026: Chloe Kim, facing the weight of expectation, stunned in halfpipe final
South Korea's Gaon Choi stomped her final run to end Kim's Olympic reign.
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Is 17-year old Alessandro Barbieri the American heir to Shaun White’s halfpipe throne? He’s got the charisma and the tricks - and may even have the goods to snag a medal on Friday. sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
Winter Olympics 2026: Has the United States finally found the heir to Shaun White?
Seventeen-year-old Alessandro Barbieri enters the men’s halfpipe finals as the best American hope since White.
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A photo finish, a shock DQ and a 44-year-old charging on: Snowboard cross delivered pure Olympic chaos Thursday. sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
Photo finish, shock DQ and a 44-year-old charging on: Snowboard cross delivers pure Olympic chaos
From an American perspective, it was equal parts inspiring and maddening.
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Nick Baumgartner won a gold medal at 40, came back at 44 and is thinking about making the Olympics in Salt Lake at 52. A man truly doing it for the love of the game. sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
How do snowboarders and freeskiers come up with their tricks? A lot goes into it before they ever hit the snow. sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
'You're always working on something new': How Olympians come up with new tricks
From conception to practice and then more practice, skiers and snowboarders can take years to perfect a new maneuver.
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Liz Lemley is a thrill seeker, a pilot and a “silent assassin.” She’s also a 20-year old from Colorado who pulled a huge upset to win the gold medal in women’s moguls sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
Winter Olympics 2026: Elizabeth Lemley flies to gold in moguls
Americans go 1-2 as Jaelin Kauf takes silver.
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Eileen Gu says she has nothing to prove at these Olympics. But she didn’t compete that way in the best slopestyle competition women’s skiing has ever seen. sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
Winter Olympics: Switzerland's Mathilde Gremaud bests Eileen Gu in epic freeski slopestyle showdown
The two finished 1-2, just as they did four years ago in Beijing.
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Many of the Winter Olympic sports are dangerous, but athletes don’t process risk like you and me. That doesn’t mean they’re reckless. In the wake of Lindsey Vonn’s crash, here’s my deep dive on how these athletes approach competitions that could kill them. sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
How do Olympic athletes measure the risk of injury vs. the reward of a gold meal?
In the aftermath of Lindsey Vonn's crash, it's natural to wonder whether she took on too much risk. It's a question many Olympic athletes have to ask themselves.
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It ended disastrously and gruesomely, with images and sounds that will be hard to shake. But who are we to second guess Lindsey Vonn for trying? Column for @yahoosports.bsky.social sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
Lindsey Vonn went for it. Who are we to second-guess?
Vonn has lived her life audaciously, and Sunday we saw an all-time skiing talent trying desperately, maybe too desperately, to win a race the rest of us just wanted her to finish.
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In America, only gold gets the glory. But skier Bryce Bennett showed Saturday you can end your career without a medal and still have everything you wanted. sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
Winter Olympics 2026: Bryce Bennett didn't win a medal, but he still got everything he wanted
Three Olympics came and went with no medals for Bennett. But on Saturday, in his final Olympic event, he didn’t care.
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A shift is taking place within snowboarding and freestyle skiing. Born out of X Games counterculture, embracing the Olympics took time. But now there’s a real debate in those communities: Has the Olympics become the pinnacle of their sports? sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
Winter Olympics 2026: The Olympians who didn't grow up dreaming of being Olympians
For some snowboarders and freeskiers, the X Games — not the Olympics — was the pinnacle.
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Could other programs have been Indiana if they’d rolled the dice on Curt Cignetti when he was at James Madison? Some ADs have regrets. “Biggest f-up ever.” sports.yahoo.com/college-foot...
Why wasn't Curt Cignetti hired by a blue blood? 'Biggest f-up ever'
Now that Curt Cignetti has shown how good of a coach he is, it's easy for many ADs to second-guess themselves.
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Indiana is an inevitable freight train rolling toward history. Can Miami stop it? sports.yahoo.com/college-foot...
After Indiana's brutal semifinal beatdown of Oregon, can Miami stop this freight train?
Fernando Mendoza and the Hoosiers have once again laid waste to one of the best teams in college football. And only one remains.
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There are many similarities in the career arcs of Dabo Swinney and Scott Drew. But with college sports in the midst of massive change, they now stand on opposite ends of the spectrum in how to deal with it. It hasn’t inoculated either one from criticism. My column: sports.yahoo.com/college-foot...
While some college coaches have adapted to new era, others are still stuck in the past
College sports is in an upheaval. Some, like Baylor's Scott Drew, have embraced the new world order and been criticized. Others, like Clemson's Dabo Swinney, have stuck to their old-school ways and se...
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There were a bunch of ways Michigan’s coaching search could have ended badly. Instead, they upgraded - hugely - with Kyle Whittingham. Competence wins. sports.yahoo.com/college-foot...
After years of coaching flubs, Michigan is hitting bull's-eye with Kyle Whittingham hire
Following the Sherrone Moore debacle, the full culture reset Whittingham will provide is just what Michigan needs.
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With Baylor adding a former NBA Draft pick to its roster this week, the line between pro and college continues to blur. Can the NCAA stop the progression toward full-fledged NBA players coming back to college? Should they even try? sports.yahoo.com/mens-college...
'This s*** is crazy' — Baylor's addition of James Nnaji further blurs line between pro and college hoops
The combination of schools looking for players outside the traditional recruiting realm and judges eroding the NCAA’s ability to enforce eligibility rules has led everyone here, whether they like it o...
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As Lane Kiffin tweeted through it in Baton Rouge, the party went on without him in Oxford and Ole Miss put him in the rear view with a playoff romp. My column for Yahoo Sports sports.yahoo.com/college-foot...
Pete Golding, Ole Miss put exhausting Lane Kiffin drama in rearview with first-round CFP romp
After a game that felt a bit like an exorcism, the hope at Ole Miss is that things will now get back to normal. There will be a time Kiffin will be back in the conversation, but for now it feels like ...
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Don’t want to join a conference? Fine, but if it’s a close call for a playoff spot, you get what you get. @danwolken.bsky.social:
College Football Playoff committee sending message to Notre Dame by leaving Irish out of 12-team field
The work is finally done for the worst selection committee in the CFP's history, and make no mistake, excluding Notre Dame was a message from the CFP.
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Could the CFP committee snub Ole Miss if Lane Kiffin left in the next two weeks? The committee’s protocol says they can. And the Florida State precedent looms large. sports.yahoo.com/college-foot...
If Lane Kiffin bolts Oxford, could the CFP committee ding Ole Miss ... or leave them out of the playoff altogether?
There's already a precedent where the committee left a team out of the College Football Playoff because it was missing a key player. The same protocol applies to coaches — and Lane Kiffin is vital to ...
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Among the highlights in here, @danwolken.bsky.social calls Paul Feinbaum a loudmouth. As always, Dan breaks down yesterday’s college football action beautifully.
Misery Index: Alabama snapped back to reality with stunning home loss to Oklahoma
Tide fans likely won't take the team's home loss to Oklahoma well, but the reality is that they've been spoiled and the game has changed. Better get used to it.
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