Some would equate the Met Gala to "the Super Bowl of Fashion", and this year's red carpet (technically it was blue) didn't disappoint as Olympic, NFL, and WNBA champions — athletes across the biggest leagues in the world — took center stage in their best looks.
The theme of the 2025 Met Gala was "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style", inspired by Monica L. Miller's book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.
See below for a glimpse into one of fashion's brightest nights and the standout looks of some of sports' biggest stars, including NBC Sports' own Maria Taylor, Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts, three-time Olympian Miles Chamley-Watson, and more.
Angel Reese
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Angel Reese attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Savion Washington/Getty Images)
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Miles Chamley-Watson
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Miles Chamley-Watson attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
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Sha’Carri Richardson
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Sha’Carri Richardson attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
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Savannah James
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Savannah James attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
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Jalen Hurts
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Bry Burrows and Jalen Hurts attend “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”, the 2025 Costume Institute Benefit, at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
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Breanna Stewart
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Breanna Stewart attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
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Noah Lyles
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Noah Lyles attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Savion Washington/Getty Images)
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Jonquel Jones
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Jonquel Q Jones attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
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Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: (L-R) Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens attend the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images)
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Joe Burrow
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Joe Burrow attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/FilmMagic)
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Lewis Hamilton
British car driver Lewis Hamilton arrives for the 2025 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2025, in New York. The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. The 2025 Met Gala is themed “Tailored for You,” aligning with the Costume Institute’s exhibition, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” set to open to the public on May 10. (Photo by Angela WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Maria Taylor
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Russell Wilson and Ciara
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: (L-R) Russel Wilson and Ciara attend the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/MG25/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
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Gabby Thomas
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Gabby Thomas attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/MG25/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
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Serena Williams
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Serena Williams attends “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”, the 2025 Costume Institute Benefit, at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
New research has shown there was a positive impact during London 2012 but the legacy effects appear to be short-lived
Does hosting an Olympics really improve our wellbeing? If so, by how much - and for how long? Are we really happier when Team GB win gold medals? And are the lofty claims of politicians that London 2012 would make us healthier born out by the facts?
While the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, was banging the drum for the capital hosting the Olympics in 2040 last week, academics at the LSE, Harvard and in Germany were answering these questions – and quietly busting a few myths about the legacy of 2012.
Jimmer Fredette has been named the new USA Basketball 3x3 men's national team managing director after announcing his retirement from competition last week.
“When I got the call from USA Basketball about playing 3x3, I really didn’t know what to expect,” Fredette said, according to a press release. “I found out quickly that I loved the competition, energy and style of the sport. 3x3 fits my game and my personality. I made friends throughout my journey who will forever be a part of my life. I also saw an opportunity to be able to grow the sport within the USA.
“When USA Basketball approached me about this role, I jumped at it. I’m determined to help build a sustainable program for years to come and, ultimately, the best 3x3 program in the world. I’m so grateful for the USA Basketball Board of Directors for trusting me with this responsibility and I’m ready for the challenge.”
Fredette, 36, played on the U.S. men's Olympic 3x3 team in Paris but was injured early on, and the team didn't make the medal rounds without him.
Biles would be 31 at the start of next Summer Games
Simone Biles says she is unsure whether she will compete at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.
The 28-year-old says she has other priorities, and is mindful of the demands her sport puts on her body at an age when most elite gymnasts have long since retired. Biles will be 31 when the LA Olympics start: the oldest all-around female gymnastics champion is Maria Gorokhovskaya, who won gold at the age of 30 at the 1952 Games.
Aimee Boorman, Biles’s longtime coach, outlines the story in her new book, The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles. The twisties cause gymnasts to lose their orientation while in the air, a dangerous situation in a sport where falls can cause serious injury. The condition, along with mental health concerns, caused Biles to withdraw from all but one final at the Tokyo Olympics, where her only medal was a bronze on the beam.
LA28 will feature 28 more medal events than Paris 2024
Swimming to add 50m back, 50m breast and 50m fly
Mixed-gender events added in artistic gymnastics, golf
Sprint-distance swimming races and mixed-gender events in artistic gymnastics and golf are among the additions to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games, after the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) approval of a record 351 medal events on Wednesday.
The LA28 schedule includes the Olympic debuts of the 50m backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly for both men and women, and a mixed 4x100m relay on the track.
Women’s tournament will feature 16 teams, up from 12
Men’s tournament to contract from 16 to 12 teams
Score it a big win for women’s soccer at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
The Olympic women’s soccer tournament will be bigger than the men’s edition for the first time in 2028, the International Olympic Committee decided Wednesday, with 16 teams for women and now just 12 for men.
Boxing champion who won two world heavyweight titles, decades apart, and took on Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle
To be classed as a great heavyweight boxer it is often said that a fighter needs to duel with the best combatants of his time. George Foreman, who has died aged 76, unquestionably did that, having had epic world heavyweight title rivalries in the 1970s with Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, beating the latter to win the world heavyweight title in 1973.
However, in some ways his more deserving claim to greatness was an astonishing comeback that saw him become the oldest world heavyweight champion two decades later.
From protecting women’s sport to the return of Russia and keeping the Olympics relevant, the former gold medallist has tough challenges ahead
As a seven-time Olympic swimming medallist, Kirsty Coventry knows a thing or two about navigating choppy waters. But the new International Olympic Committee president now faces the biggest set of challenges to global sport since the 1980s, when boycotts rocked the Moscow and Los Angeles Games. As the 41-year-old prepares to take over from Thomas Bach in June, what issues will she face?
Poll result defied candidates’ calculations and illustrated outgoing president’s influence but change may yet come
It might sound beyond ridiculous, given the scale of Kirsty Coventry’s seismic victory in the International Olympic Committee presidential election. But as the various royals, sporting dignitaries, politicians and billionaires left the Costa Navarino resort on Friday, some really believed the result could have turned out very differently.
Yes, the 41-year-old Zimbabwean ex-swimmer had won in the first round with 49 votes to become the first woman to lead the IOC. And yes, Juan Antonio Samaranch and Sebastian Coe, the other members of the “Big Three”, had come away with just 28 and eight votes respectively. But in the postmortem there were several stories about how the IOC machine had powered Thomas Bach’s chosen successor over the line.
Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), becoming the first woman and first African in the committee's 131-year history to get the job. The former swimmer, a two-time Olympic gold medallist, won 49 of the 97 votes of the IOC membership in the first round of voting
A vote expected to be tense, tight and protracted turned out to be one-sided and extraordinarily brief, ending with Kirsty Coventry’s election as IOC president
In addition to the seven candidates a total of eight IOC members will not be allowed to vote in the first round. They are using an electronic voting process that involves some kind of smart card, which are currently being distributed.
All of the important procedural stuff are in the preamble or at the bottom of this page.
Kendrick Lamar expected to perform at opening ceremony
Organizers do not anticipate visa problems for teams
The organizers of the 2028 Olympics say the Games will help Los Angeles rebuild after the wildfires that devastated the city earlier this year.
“The rebirth, the rebuild, maybe reimagining LA 2.0 — and the Olympics as a catalyst for all those things – we think is really part of our ethos,” LA 2028 organizing committee chairman Casey Wasserman told the Associated Press during the International Olympic Committee’s annual meeting. “You can’t have a natural disaster at that scale in a city as big and as important as Los Angeles and not have it be part of your core philosophy going forward.”
Algerian tells ITV News she plans to defend Paris title
Khelif says Trump comments ‘do not intimidate me’
Imane Khelif has said she is looking forward to defending her Olympic title in Los Angeles, and will not be intimidated by the United States president, Donald Trump.
The 25-year-old Algerian boxer, who won gold amid controversy and huge media attention at the Paris Olympics last year, has signalled her intention to repeat the feat in 2028 and hit back after Trump wrongly claimed she was transgender in August.
Thomas Bach criticises ‘fake news campaign from Russia’
Two boxers under scrutiny won gold in Paris
A gender row involving two female boxers at the Paris 2024 Olympics was the result of a Russian fake news campaign and had little to do with reality, the International Olympic Committee president, Thomas Bach, said on Saturday.
Bach, who is stepping down in June after 12 years in the biggest job in world sports, said the IOC had needed to fight off many similar campaigns before and after the Paris Games.
The boxing competition in the Paris was run by the IOC after it stripped the International Boxing Association (IBA) of recognition last year over its failure to implement reforms on governance and finance. But the IBA, run by the Russian businessman Umar Kremlev with close links to the Kremlin, accused the IOC during the Games of allowing two female athletes, who had been banned by the IBA after a chromosome test a year earlier, to compete.
A war of words ensued between the two organisations and dominated the headlines during the Games. “I would not consider this [Paris Games gender controversy] a real crisis because all this discussion is based on a fake news campaign coming from Russia,” Bach said at the southern Greek seaside resort where his successor will be elected on Thursday. “This was part of the many, many fake news campaigns we had to face from Russia before Paris and after Paris.”
Several such campaigns happened before Paris, including what the IOC said at the time were repeated hacking attempts. Bach said the dispute over the boxers would have been a non-issue were it not for the IBA, given the two boxers had competed for years, including at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, with no problems.
“It [the dispute] has nothing to do with the reality. These two female focuses were born as women, they were raised as women, they have been competing as women, they have been winning and losing as every other person.” The two boxers, Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, won gold medals in their weight classes.
The IOC does not have a universal rule on the participation of transgender athletes or athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD), with each federation drawing up its own regulations. Russian athletes competed as neutrals in Paris after the Russian Olympic Committee was suspended for conducting Olympic elections in Ukrainian territories occupied after the Russian invasion in 2022.
