ORANGE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- The 2021 Summer Games are making history with a record number of LBGTQ+ athletes including two transgender competitors. This move toward increasing transgender visibility ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Simone Biles withdrew from another Tokyo Olympics women's gymnastics event Wednesday, this time the individual all-around competition, to prioritize her mental health. Other athletes ...

THE BACKGROUND: It was the year that mental health took a prominent position in the sports world – led by two female athletes, Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka. Biles, the American gymnastics superstar, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- History was made in Illinois on Saturday. Special Olympian Tommy Shimoda was celebrated as the first athlete with intellectual disabilities to receive the Order of Lincoln, the ...