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The Olympics: A guide to summer and winter games and sports, Olympic history and symbols, and iconic athletes
The Olympic Games are the world's most prestigious international athletic competitions. Here's what…
Samantha Grindell
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Dutee Chand extends support to under-fire boxer Imane Khalif following controversial win in Paris Olympics
Italian boxer Angela Carini quit her 66 kg women's category boxing match against Algeria's Imane Kh…
ANI
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Many supposedly 'neutral' Russian Olympic athletes have cheered on the invasion of Ukraine, rights group says
A human rights group claims that the majority of Russian "neutral" athletes competing at the Olympi…
Mia Jankowicz
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IOC revokes India’s rights to host any Olympic qualifying events
The International Olympic Committee has revoked India’s rights to host Olympic-related events follo…
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IOC issues final warning to IOA, to suspend India if elections not held by December
The executive board of the IOC, which made in Lausanne on Thursday, also decided not to reco…
PTI
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The Olympic pentathlon champion says the way the sport's chiefs chose to replace horse riding with an obstacle course is 'all quite suspicious'
UIPM President Dr. Klaus Schormann let slip in an interview in November that the call had already b…
Barnaby Lane
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China is being accused of blocking and deliberately frustrating journalists trying to cover the Winter Olympics in Beijing
The body which acts on behalf of foreign media in the country said there was a "lack of transparenc…
Sam Cooper
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China used to be the great exporter of Olympic talent. The Beijing Winter Games show China is becoming a talent importer.
For decades, Chinese-born table tennis players have been playing for other countries. Today, China …
Huileng Tan
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Beijing's 'closed-loop' Winter Olympic bubble is so strict that robots prepare meals and staff wear alarmed armpit thermometers
Chinese authorities are going to extreme lengths to try and prevent the spread of COVID during the …
Barnaby Lane
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More than 300 horses traveled to the Olympics on special flights complete with passports, in-flight meals, and mandatory COVID quarantines
The horses enjoyed the equivalent of business class accommodations, featuring in-flight meals and s…
Meredith Cash
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Surfing will be at the Olympics for the first time, but it took 22 years of lobbying by the sports' leading figure to get it there
Fernando Aguerre spent 22 years of his adult life working to get surfing into the Olympics, and wil…
Jackson Thompson
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An Olympic judoka who refused to fight an Israeli opponent has been kicked out of the sport for 10 years
The International Judo Federation said Nourine acted with "malicious intent" and used the games to …
Barnaby Lane
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Chinese athletes at the Tokyo Olympics are under investigation for wearing pins that honor communist leader Mao Zedong
The IOC is investigating a situation in which two Chinese gold medalists had images of Communist Ch…
Jackson Thompson
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Tokyo Olympics: COVID-19 cases cross 100 with 19 new infections
The total number of cases directly linked to the Games stood at 106 on Friday with 11 of them a…
PTI
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The US is 'not focused on a boycott' of the 2022 Olympics in China amid human rights concerns, Blinken says
China has warned countries against boycotting the games, and said that a US boycott of the Olympics…
Connor Perrett
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China warns US and its allies not to boycott Beijing Games, politicize the Olympics
Chinese officials warned that Washington would face a "robust Chinese response" if the US boycotts …
Cheryl Teh
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Trump administration proposes to end all government funding for the Special Olympics, arguing that private philanthropy will pick up the bill
The Special Olympics gets 12% of its funding ($17.6 million in 2017) from the government, according…
Bill Bostock,Bill Bostock
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Nigerian Olympic soccer team is stuck in Atlanta 36 hours before first game because of an unpaid plane bill
"The Nigerian government [sports ministry] is responsible for booking the tickets for the team to t…
Emmett Knowlton
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Woebegone To Bygone; Indian Tiranga To Fly At Sochi
It must be extremely painful for the sports-loving youth of India to realise that they can do nothi…
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LIVE BLOG: Here's The Sochi Olympics That Putin Doesn't Want You To See
15:18 GMT (10:18 EST): A quick look at the Russian-language Twittersphere reveals some interesting …