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Why have the Paris Olympics 2024 athletes been given over 2 lakh condoms?
The Olympics 2024 is taking place in the city of love this time, and it looks like the organisers a…
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The dark side of the 2024 Paris Olympics
On the high-end, sex traffickers could charge anywhere between $10,000 and $50,000 a victim at spor…
Natalie Musumeci
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Olympic athletes fleeing the Taliban rule in Afghanistan are finding new home in Australia
Matt Carroll, chief executive of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC), called it "a proud moment …
Barnaby Lane
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Olympics organizers plan to distribute 160,000 condoms. Now they're urging athletes to avoid sex at the games and bring the condoms home instead.
Free condoms have been provided to Olympic competitors since 1988, but this year's organizers want …
Julie Gerstein
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China's powerful social media platform Weibo has dubbed these Olympic athletes and teams the darlings and demons of the Beijing Games
Weibo praised Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu and Chinese skier Eileen Gu, but attacked figure …
Matthew Loh,Cheryl Teh
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Beijing says the cost of hosting the 2022 Winter Games is among the cheapest ever at $3.9 billion. But the real cost might more than $38.5 billion, 10 times the reported amount.
China says its 2022 Winter Games are the least expensive in two decades, but the real sum of hostin…
Cheryl Teh,Joel Stonington
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A Paralympian expressed concerns that taking a coronavirus vaccine might lead to a drugs ban for Tokyo, but authorities say that's 'extremely unlikely'
The World Anti-Doping Agency says the likelihood of vaccines containing banned substances is "remot…
Barnaby Lane
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Irish gymnast disproves theory that cardboard Olympic beds are designed to prevent sex with video of him jumping on his
Some, prompted by comments from the American distance runner Paul Chelimo, thought the beds were de…
Ashley Collman
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Why cupping therapy is so popular among celebs and athletes - and whether it's right for you
Cupping is an alternative therapy that treats muscle pain in the neck, back, and shoulders with suc…
Ava English,Ilan Danan
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Olympic organizers say they'll hand out 150,000 free condoms but want athletes to stay 6 feet away from one another - and the internet is having a field day over the contradiction
Japanese condom makers have been preparing for the Tokyo Olympics for at least three years.
Katie Warren
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A Chinese tech company has been using a Mickey Mouse-shaped 'Band-Aid' to monitor quarantined people in 20 cities. Now it's making its Olympic debut.
These thermometers are seen as a step forward in pandemic-control measures, but legal experts are c…
Weilun Soon
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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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Republicans want to prevent future Olympians like Laurel Hubbard - so they're banning trans kids from school sports
The GOP is relying on the same flawed ideas about testosterone that the IOC uses to run "sex tests"…
Canela López
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German gymnasts wore full-length bodysuits ahead of the Olympics in a stance against the sexualization of the sport
Sarah Voss, a German Olympic gymnast, expressed hope that the unitards would help younger women to …
Maria Noyen
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Transgender women should not be forced to reduce their testosterone levels to compete in women's Olympic sports, say new IOC guidelines
The International Olympic Committee has released new, non-binding guidance about the inclusion of t…
Bethany Dawson
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The latest problem for the Tokyo Olympics is the temperature and it could be the hottest on record
Temperatures at the Tokyo Olympics this summer are expected to rise to cautionary levels. What coun…
Jackson Thompson
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Tokyo 2020 was never in danger of being cancelled or delayed for a second time, says the Olympics' executive director
"Media around the globe was portraying the situation as dire," Christophe Dubi said, adding that th…
Barnaby Lane
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400,000 COVID tests, billions of dollars, and an immense sense of pride: Meet the man responsible for pulling off the most complex Olympic Games ever
Christophe Dubi, the Olympic Games' Executive Director, led the planning, preparation, and delivery…
Barnaby Lane
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Elite gymnasts say Simone Biles is lucky she didn't blow her knee on the vault - it takes Olympian skill to survive that error without injury
The fact that Simone Biles got lost in the air and still landed is a testament to her skill as an a…
Anna Medaris Miller
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Banning Sha’Carri Richardson from the Olympics for weed is outdated. So is the idea that weed slows you down.
People joked that Richardson should have got a head-start, not a penalty. That plays on a stereotyp…