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…to change hearts and minds (for the better). And so this week, Favre made headlines again. Amid a brewing transgender Olympics controversy, he called out the absurdity of a male…

…chance at winning gold in the career Olympics on behalf of the almost assured chance of winning gold in the family satisfaction Olympics. If you want to be happy, your…

…her, taking first place. Republicans are using the Olympics to call attention to the issue of sex-segregated sports, giving athletes a platform to push back on radical gender ideology from…

The first self-proclaimed “non-binary” Olympian Alana Smith, who competed in women’s skateboarding at the Tokyo Olympics because she is female, received an apology from NBC for “repeatedly misgendering” her during…

…the singles rankings in August 2011. She won two singles, 22 doubles titles, and played in three Olympics throughout her career. The 35-year-old is one of the most popular and…

…prompted backlash around the globe, including the U.S. decision to stage a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics next month. Corporate media outlets participated in this outrage, to their credit….

The opening ceremony of each Olympics is a revealing window into the character and aspirations of the host country. China’s 2008 bigger, louder, longer spectacular left little of her hegemonic…

…Do You Remember Black September? Black September was the scourge of Munich during the 1972 Olympics. Even if you weren’t around then, you’ve probably seen the iconic photograph of the…

…our athletes over, either. For some reason, the U.S. Olympic Committee continues to overlook his colossal clothing screwups of Olympics past. Allow me to jog your memory of what our…

…and spectators will go to Brazil from around the world for the Olympic games; then they will all go back to their home countries. The 2016 Olympics is one giant…

…I fell into a depth of despair.” Richards-Ross went on to win a gold medal in the 400-meter dash in the 2012 summer Olympics. In an interview with Women’s Health,…

Writer Mary Katharine Ham addressed the firestorm surrounding Vice President Mike Pence and Kim Jong Un’s sister at the Winter Olympics on CNN Sunday. “She’s literally the director of propaganda…

Mary Katharine Ham and Kristen Soltis Anderson host this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour to discuss the 2018 Winter Olympics, the athletes, and the events they are watching. They…

…Bowl theme. And half-a-world away at the Olympics, Mill’s name reappeared, when a Slovenian snowboarder showed off his board during halfpipe qualifying. The board has “#FreeMeekMill” written on it. “Mr….

…know how to rank you in the oppression Olympics? That, of course, is intersectionality’s greater purpose: ranking those intersecting identities on a spectrum of privilege. The more “oppressed” identities you…

…hard line of fairness, and Johaug was forced to watch the 2018 winter Olympics from the sidelines. It’s an unfortunate set of circumstances that raises the question: If chemicals from…

…quirky character flaws, reports a suspicious package at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics that turns out to be a bomb. At first celebrated and praised, he is later vilified by the…

…Russia a four-year ban against participating in major sporting events. While Russian athletes have previously been barred from competition, such as the weightlifters in the 2018 Olympics, this total ban…

…As The Guardian reported in 2019, plans to introduce stricter guidelines for transgender athletes for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo (scrubbed allegedly because of the pandemic) were stalled “because the…

…who begrudgingly joined the battle to save their sport. When the Olympics air later this summer, long a unifying national event, sex will be front and center. We learned recently…

After players on the U.S. women’s soccer team kneeled in support of Black Lives Matter before their game opener at the Tokyo Olympics Wednesday morning, the ladies were crushed by…

Upon the United States women’s basketball team striking gold at the Tokyo Olympics, Nike released a video calling for dismantling the patriarchy and falsifying history in favor of identity politics…

The Simone Biles news cycle seems to have come to a disappointing end. In the beginning, she entered the Olympics as America’s gymnast champion. Then, out of the blue, she…

…controversially pulled out of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, also enthusiastically supported Saunders’s podium protests by posting an image of Saunders posing with her hands in an “X” above her head…

…sport disputes. At the 2016 Olympics, a Canadian athlete, Melissa Bishop, finished fourth in the women’s 800-meter race. Ahead of her were Caster Semenya and two other athletes with differences…

…of the shots they never took. Your “gold medal” may not be earned at the Olympics or on a race course at all. But if you apply the conservative principles…

…Rose) but there doesn’t seem to be anything in it. It was bequeathed to us from the Olympics, and seems to have fully flowered in Athens in 2004. As the…

…love, but in the neurotic Olympics, that means the parents who let their kids experience life always lose. As Kara Corridan incredulously writes in Parents Magazine, “If I disagree with…

…in particular can achieve something wonderful not even the Olympics does: for a brief shining moment, it can turn irony-obsessed liberal hipsters into unironic jingoistic patriots. Can you think of…

…speed. His legs took him to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, where he placed eighth in the 5000 meter but dazzled the world with a spectacularly fast lap. He couldn’t…

…did “Faustus” and the older Biblical narratives they discussed. While it is entirely human and especially western to push at human boundaries—see Odysseus, the Olympics, and Icarus—it is also human…

…private business became illegal. I was on Rocky’s side against Drago, obviously. I never even half-considered rooting for Russia in the Miss Universe pageant or the Olympics. I adopted an…

…home and “friends” of the government watched him night and day. Magay won a gold medal for fencing in the 1956 Olympics in Australia, and decided not to return home,…

…of like the Olympics. You have the best people from each country competing in the 400 meters, but not everyone is going to fit on the track at the same…

…of imagination, but do not pardon the results. In the so-called “Oppression Olympics,” the Left and its hipster faithful at Hollywood parties and in faculty lounges have unequivocally won, insofar…

…in the education Olympics. More than once I was made to feel like we were limiting her chances in life because she wasn’t going to Big Name U. Surely, a…