Olympics Tag

FINA Votes To Restrict Transgenders From Women’s Elite Swimming Competitions

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on June 19, 2022 55 Comments

This FINA policy will affect Lia Thomas, who will be unable to compete against biological women in the Olympics but will be able to compete in the new "open" category FINA plans to establish....

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The Final Results Are In! Complete Wipe-out in NBC’s Olympics’ Ratings

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 26, 2022 44 Comments

So many reasons for the fail....

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Racialized Media Exalt USA Skeleton’s First Black Olympian … By Hiding Her Face

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on February 12, 2022 61 Comments

Here's an idea: how about we drop the swooning, astonished gasping about the near-daily historic black firsts and just celebrate hard-earned human accomplishment? ...

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Olympic Athletes Reporting Squalid Conditions and Bad Food at Beijing’s Quarantine Hotel

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 09, 2022 29 Comments

American figure skater Vincent Zhou withdrawals from Olympic competition due to positive test....

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Televised Coverage of Beijing Winter Olympics is a Snow-filled Ratings Bust

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 05, 2022 37 Comments

Despite the blizzard of Chinese PR, CCP officals cannot snow potential viewers and have them forget all the damage that nation has done in the past two years....

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China Locks Down Major Port City of Tianjin Over COVID With the Olympics Weeks Away

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 12, 2022 9 Comments

Meanwhile, the city of Xi'an has reported an unspecified number of hemorrhagic fever cases, and a Canadian officer has demanded an investigation into possible COVID exposures at World Military Games 2019....

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Woke U.S. Olympians Not Faring Too Well at the Olympic Games

Posted by Stacey Matthews on August 05, 2021 29 Comments

The U.S. women's soccer team, led by liberal icon Megan Rapinoe, will play for the bronze after losing to Canada, and Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry, who turned away from the flag during an Olympic trials medal ceremony in June, failed to medal - finishing...

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Olympian Gwen Berry Spared Hearing National Anthem From Podium, Finishes 11th (Out Of 12)

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on August 04, 2021 22 Comments

"Berry's best throw of 71.35 meters was nowhere near the winning result."...

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Olympic Gold Medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock: ‘I Love Representing the U.S.’

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 03, 2021 25 Comments

"I freaking love living there. I love it. I'm so happy I get to represent [the] USA!"...

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Bill Maher Describes Cancel Culture As a ‘Purge,’ Says it ‘Belongs in Stalin’s Russia’

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 02, 2021 18 Comments

"Change is not synonymous with progress. Newer doesn't automatically mean better."...

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Woke Women’s Soccer Team Stumble, Lose Chance at Gold Medal

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 02, 2021 58 Comments

Go woke, go broke! Have we learned to make our jobs our first priority?...

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After Half a Century, Israeli Victims of Munich Olympic Massacre Honored at Tokyo Opening Ceremony 

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on July 24, 2021 16 Comments

Families of the victims: “Finally there is justice for the husbands, sons and fathers murdered at Munich."...

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U.S. Women’s Soccer Takes a Protest Knee, Gets Trounced by Sweden

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 21, 2021 69 Comments

Maybe they should pay more attention to the game instead of protesting....

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Tweets of U.S. Olympian Gwen Berry Who Turned Her Back On Anthem Surface – Derogatory Towards Chinese, Mexicans, Whites

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on July 03, 2021 24 Comments

Berry: 'This lil white boy being bad as hell!! I would smack his *** then stomp him!! Smh #whitepplKids hella disrespectful'...

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Olympic Hammer Thrower Gwen Berry Turns Away From American Flag, “P*ssed” National Anthem Played

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on June 27, 2021 123 Comments

“My purpose and my mission is bigger than sports. I’m here to represent those … who died due to systemic racism. That’s the important part. That’s why I’m going. That’s why I’m here today”...

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Olympic Committee Bans Black Lives Matter Apparel, Threatens to Punish Those Who Protest

Posted by Mary Chastain on May 05, 2021 39 Comments

The 2020 Summer Olympics kick off in 80 days in Tokyo, Japan, after the pandemic delayed it for a year. A lot happened in the last year. Black Lives Matter shared the attention with COVID-19 after the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. But BLM supporters will not have an opportunity to showcase that support on the Olympic stage.

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Trump to Visit Los Angeles, Checking on 2028 Olympics Efforts and Homelessness Solutions

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 19, 2020 26 Comments

Few of us political news junkies can ever forget one of President Barack Obama's earlier failures as President. Remember when the Obamas personally appealed to International Olympic Committee members for the 2016 summer Olympic Games to be in Chicago?

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Malaysia Stripped of Paralympic Swim Event for Barring Israeli Athletes

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on January 27, 2019 6 Comments

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has stripped Malaysia of hosting the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships after the Muslim-majority country barred Israeli athletes from participating. The decision was taken by the IPC Governing Board in London on Sunday.

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