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…of them will know pressure like the Olympics. Biles certainly didn’t seem to think much of it, even referring to herself after withdrawing the first time as “the head star…

…phenomenon – it’s no longer a protest, but customary. Prior to kick-off in the bronze medal match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, the United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) knelt,…

…But she said the Olympics is not the time for vulnerable athletes to do that. https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1489347147812253699?s=20&t=RMKqpZTX9XUEv_tBNBqOnQ Corporate media pundits have also jumped on Pelosi’s bandwagon and called for U.S. athletes…

…control and they will not listen to complaints from their enemies. Americans have mostly tuned out the 2022 Olympics to this point, handing NBC some of its worst ratings in…

This week at the Rio Olympics, gymnasts will dazzle our TV screens by defying gravity, one handspring, backflip, and side aerial at a time. Simone Biles, thought “the one to…

…their bare bones. Tonya Harding attacked Nancy Kerrigan’s knee, Tonya was trashy, she cried at the Olympics, and we haven’t heard much from her since then. In 2014, Nanette Burstein…

While athletes from all around the world are competing in 2018 Winter Olympics, a lot of media outlets are busy fangirling brutal North Korean leader Kim Jon Un’s sister Kim…

…News, a major LGBT news organization, reported that openly gay Olympic athlete Gus Kenworthy lamented Pence’s presence at the Winter Olympics to Ellen DeGeneres. “So many people have paved the…

…to compete in the Winter Olympics. He began ice skating at age 10, and publicly came out as gay when he was 25. He struggled with his sexual identity growing…

…Yo Jong attended the Winter Olympics held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. “Kim Jong Un’s sister is stealing the show at the Winter Olympics,” CNN published. “If ‘diplomatic dance’ were an…

…apex in the “Dream Team,” the group of players that comprised the American men’s basketball team at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. The team arguably represents the single greatest collection…

Trigger warning: What I’m about to say might be uncomfortable for the yoga community. Move over, rhythmic gymnastics—yoga may soon be stretching its way to the Olympics. In May, the…

With the Olympics looming, the transgender debate is about to move from the bathroom to the playing field. But in high school sports programs across America, far from the glare…

Mary Katharine Ham discussed breaking news on the Clinton Foundation and recapped the major news stories from the Olympics this week with Christine Brennan, USA Today Sports columnist who is…

…Championships so that she would be unable to compete at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. So yeah, I and all other people who know women understand that we are…

…Olympics. We all laughed. Former President Barack Obama posed with Maroney, mimicking the expression. Late-night comedy shows invited her on and Internet memes proliferated. But it turns out Maroney was…

No, not every Western journalist fell for North Korean propaganda efforts at the Pyeongchang Olympics, though there were more than plenty. Some of it, no doubt, is driven by animosity…

The 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea have produced drama beyond the athletic exploits they intended to showcase. Many in the press proved to be suckers for North Korean propaganda,…

…Olympics, I’ll be fine.” Biles was right that the other girls had invested a lifetime of blood, sweat, and tears, to prepare for this moment, but it wasn’t just to…

American athletes can make a lot of money demonizing their own country these days. The world stage of the Olympics, then, presents a prime opportunity to cash in on the…

…up becoming the first Asian American woman to win a gold medal in the Olympics’ all-around competition. She also won a bronze medal in uneven bars. Lee’s extraordinary achievements didn’t…

…suitability to host the 2022 Olympics. Given the deadly plight of the Uyghurs, now is not the time for the international community to kowtow to those who would benefit the…

…to explode in September and we’re gonna find out if we can survive in armageddon.” Emily Jashinsky “My prediction is that [the Beijing Olympics] are not going to go as…

Communist China kicked off the Beijing Winter Olympics on Friday, giving the Chinese Communist Party a center stage to broadcast its propaganda to a worldwide audience for two weeks. What…

…medals at the 1972 Olympics. He wore an iconic Speedo swimsuit featuring the stars and stripes. I was a competitive swimmer, and every team just had to have that red,…

…opinion piece, “The End of Snow?” The hook was the Olympics: the article opened with the attention-grabbing suggestion that only six of the nineteen former Winter Olympics host cities may…

There is a vanishingly small likelihood that any Olympics-caliber athlete is reading this, so I feel justified in saying that you and I, dear reader, will never be quite so…

…foreign policy adventurism. During the Sochi Olympics’ opening ceremony, Putin whitewashed communism’s history of mass starvations and gulag camps in favor of festively costumed actors dancing and driving around in…

…Soviet, not Russian monuments to power. He has funded new generations of nuclear missiles. He set up a Potemkin village to host the Olympics. He scrubbed Soviet history clean in…

…all of it upon ourselves. Yes, Christmas should include some special food, some presents, and a tree. But we’ve turned Christmas into the Motherhood Olympics, and then we get mad…

…research that looks matter. Taller men who have above-average looks tend to get promoted more than their shorter, less-attractive counterparts. If you want to be in the Olympics of looks,…

…21.4 million. Those are the average viewership numbers for the last four Olympics (2008 Beijing, 2010 Vancouver, 2012 London, 2014 Sochi), the latter two of which featured every major primetime…

…on March 11 to keep the storied tradition going. Welcome to the Space Olympics, the year 3022. Take part in a grand tradition, your name echoes in the holes of…

…always what they seem. Here is a list of four times that apparent terror attacks on America ended up not fitting the popular narrative. 1. The 1996 Atlanta Olympics Bombing…

…there is no easy off-ramp. There is no Winter Olympics in South Korea that would give the north a face-saving out. In fact, the heated rhetoric of the U.S. presidential…

…City Olympics, which were then considered an act of disrespect to the flag but now lionized by popular culture as heroic. Because of the mix of nationalism and sports, the…