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…they meet certain requirements like lowered testosterone levels. Such rules allowed Laurel Hubbard, a New Zealand man who qualified for women’s weightlifting in the Tokyo Olympics, to compete. Forbes explains…

…Just before the start of the games, media outlets pushed a sob story about Palestinian swimmer Mary al-Atrash, claiming she was unable to use an Olympic-sized pool for training. “There…

The major U.S. media outlets enthusiastically helping spread North Korean propaganda at the winter Olympics are putting on a stunning show of disregard for the millions of people suffering under…

…anything, the Olympics resembles the distasteful politics of the United Nations more than it does the triumph of the brotherhood of man. So can we stop pretending the Olympics aren’t…

Wednesday it was announced that at the Winter Olympics next month, delegations from North and South Korea will march together under a flag representing a unified Korea. Before you start…

…the field or in the stadium elicits competitive patriotism, giving nations around the world a chance to trample each other to victory without anybody getting shot. The Olympics offer this…

…of the Olympics. Despite hoping for better viewership this year compared to four years ago, NBC saw a 35 percent drop in viewership of the opening ceremony and a 20…

…sports early in life and later went on to become gold-medal Olympians. Gu and Chen seem to be perfect products of the American Dream, but to the 2022 Winter Olympics,…

…the media’s coverage of the Road to Rio. Transmitted by mosquitos and sexual intercourse, with the Confederations Cup, World Cup, and now the Olympics, Zika has had the perfect environment…

…of athletic achievement and marry it with powerful imagery of equally ambitious sartorial prowess.” If the Olympics focus on the athletic achievements of the human body, why should such a…

The Democratic National Convention this week in Philadelphia is Democrats’ chance to offer their vision for America. With the Republican National Convention ending last week, Democrats and their allies in…

For those who have been in a medically induced coma or solitary confinement for the past decade, intersectionality is a victimhood sweepstakes wherein various victim groups are identified or created…

…infamously withdrew from the Olympics because she broke down under pressure. This was not little Shropshire County’s one-legged gunny bag race. This was representing the country in the Olympics, which…

During the winter Olympics opening ceremony in South Korea, North and South Korea marched together into the stadium. While officials from other countries stood and applauded, U.S. Vice President Mike…

…anniversary of the game — they never hector the players to concede that they lost. They do not refer to them as “Olympics deniers.” Heck, the Olympics.com news site itself…

…would “totally smash the splittist schemes of the Dalai Lama clique.” Qingli saw the Olympics as optimal moment to launch into some political haranguing, because the Olympics is a political…

…to talks but was also interested in sending a delegation to the Winter Olympics, which are being held in the South Korean city of Pyeongchang next month, just 50 miles…

…rebirth of the modern Olympics came well into the age of the nation-state. The flag as much as the individual is the repository of our jingoistic passions in today’s Olympics….

…going to try. Everybody knows the Olympics can be used as a propaganda tool for oppressive regimes. They’ve been doing that since Adolph Hitler “stole the show” at the 1936…

…for promising to show up at those Olympics and we should do that also with our Western allies,” he said. The Chinese Communist Party, Fenton said, views the Olympics as…

…the Olympics with all the right priorities, using the competition as a chance to glorify God and honor her country instead of a means to cheap self-ingratiating publicity. The Dunellen,…

After years of having very specific rules regulating testosterone levels and in what way biological males would be able to compete in women’s athletic events at the Olympics, the International…

…Olympics has been more energized than ever. The CCP had never had to face this kind of high-profile pushback before. It had to scramble for responses. After forcing Peng to…

…against men for years, represented New Zealand at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the women’s super-heavyweight category, denying that spot on the team to a female athlete. It wasn’t the…

…history: Seven years ago, I thought about attending the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympics in London. I desperately wanted to see the Olympics in the city where I had…

…region’s population, are calling on the Unites States for support — specifically for a boycott of the 2022 Olympics, which will be held in Beijing. “We ask the G7 nations,…

…do anything.’” On to the Olympics Kids who compete in ninja leagues today might even participate in the Olympics. The 2028 summer games in Los Angeles are on track to…

Everyone’s least favorite political pundit (and sometimes sportscaster) Bob Costas took the night off from Olympics coverage because of a growing problem with his eyes. Americans were first troubled by…

…being somewhat costly. The men transitioning to women, however, will have a major advantage in various competitions. In the Olympics, who stands on the platforms depends a lot on who…

…still trained hard enough to make it to the Olympics. I would have that story tattooed on my arm, so everyone could see it on my glistening bicep when the…

…side-eye from its minister of propaganda, the sister of Kim Jong Un. If the headlines are to be believed, “North Korea heading for diplomacy gold medal at Olympics” is the…

…outlets’ fawning coverage of Kim Yo-Jong, the sister of Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, during the winter Olympics. The New York Times told us that with a winning smile she had…

…had the gall to boycott the 1980 Moscow summer Olympics after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan (which in turn caused the Soviets to boycott the 1984 Olympics in L.A.). Or when…

“My goal is to win the Olympics so I can burn a US flag on the podium,” wrote transgender BMX freestyle rider Chelsea Wolfe in a March 2020 Facebook post….

…incident, the 32-year-old female athlete was just one more unknown struggling for a chance to compete in the spotlight of the Olympics. But in the days that followed her stunt,…

…a boycott of the 2022 Olympics. “We should not empower China by allowing it to host the Winter Olympics while it is engaged in genocide and other crimes against humanity,”…