Since women started competing in elite athletics about 100 years ago, they have been subjected to questions over their sex, had to undergo humiliating sex eligibility tests and had careers ruined.
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Ralph Lauren unveils Team USA’s Olympic and Paralympic uniforms
The opening ceremony outfits feature jeans paired with a navy blue blazer trimmed in white and red. The closing ceremony features a white moto-style jacket accompanied with white jeans.
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Unsafe E. coli levels found in Paris’ Seine River less than 2 months before Olympics
Contamination levels in the first eight days of June, after persistent heavy rain in Paris, showed bacteria such as E. coli and enterococci beyond limits judged safe for athletes.
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Olympic excitement? Pass.
Are you excited about the 2022 Winter Olympics, the Opening Ceremony of which occurred Friday in Beijing? Beijing? You have to be kidding. The capital of China is anything but a capital of winter sports. Skiing, bobsled, luge and skeleton events will be held in Yanqing, 56 miles from Beijing. Cross-country, biathlon, Nordic combined, freestyle […]
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Olympian Simone Biles Has Her Priorities Straight
The champion gymnast showed a lot of guts in withdrawing from her events in Tokyo.
