Harry Potter novelist J.K. Rowling has joined the rising outcry against the Olympics after a boxer with XY chromosomes was allowed to fight a female boxer, resulting in a predictably disastrous match for the latter.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told Italian boxer Angela Carini, “I know you won’t give up,” and will one day “earn what you deserve” in “a competition that is finally fair.” Meloni’s comments were in response to Carini retiring from the ring at the Paris Olympics after 46 seconds of fighting Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who has male chromosomes.
A columnist for the ‘Washington Post’ blasted Christians on Thursday over their outrage at the highly controversial Olympics opening ceremony.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is lashing out at critics of two fighters who failed the International Boxing Association’s (IBA) gender test in 2023, calling the questioning of their right to compete as females, “aggression.”
Imane Khelif’s first female opponent only lasted 46 seconds into the first round. We don’t know how long her next opponent will last, but we know who she will be facing.
The International Boxing Association is clarifying its reasons for disqualifying the two controversial trans boxers now at the Olympics.
Olympics viewers were stunned on Thursday when a spectator in the stands pulled up her shirt when the camera panned by.
Algerian Olympic “female” boxer Imane Khelif is not female, according to the International Boxing Association (IBA). He’s a guy.
Millions of sports fans are speaking out against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allowing a fighter who was disqualified from a 2023 tournament for allegedly having male chromosomes to face a female opponent on Thursday.
Imane Khelif, an Algerian fighter who was disqualified from the International Boxing Association 2023 World Boxing Championships after failing gender-eligibility tests, beat Italian fighter Angela Carini in a boxing match at the 2024 Paris Olympics — after just 46 seconds in the fight — on Thursday, and within minutes the social media pipes were being clogged with users sharing a clip from a 2019 “South Park” episode that many say predicated men eventually box against women in professional sporting events.
Forty-six seconds. That was the sum total of time a female Italian boxer lasted in the ring at the Paris Olympics before she retired from a bout against an Algerian fighter caught in an eligibility furore.
French drag queen Hugo Bardin on Thursday vehemently rejected criticism of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. He said the mass input of LGBTQI+ performers presented a snapshot of modern France under President Emmanuel Macron, adding the fact former U.S. President Donald Trump was offended meant performers had “done our job.”
One of the stranger facets is the apparent agreement by its creators that part of the purpose was to refute a French conservative theme park.
Canadian triathlete Tyler Mislawchuk threw up after emerging from the waters of the Seine River after competing at the Olympic Games Wednesday.
The heavy rainfall in Paris is not only wrecking scheduling and travel; it also made the cycling portion of Wednesday’s women’s triathlon more reminiscent of a demolition derby.
Chinese media blamed swimmer Zhang Yufei’s poor performance at the Olympics on “crazy smears” against its athletes after failed doping tests in 2021.
As transgender fighters Imane Khelif (Algeria) and Lin Yu-Ting (Taiwan) prepare to enter the ring against female fighters later this week, one of Khelif’s former opponents is sounding the alarm over the dangers the men pose.
WNBA and Olympian Diana Taurasi and Team USA Women’s Coach Cheryl Reeve used the Olympics to push Kamala Harris for president.
An Australian swimmer who has won gold and silver thus far is slamming the “ridiculous,” woke, eco-friendly Olympic village schemes as not conducive to high-performance athletics, and it may have cost her a record finish.
Before Monday, Olga Kharlan was primarily known as the Ukrainian fencer who refused to shake her Russian opponent’s hand. Now, she’s the Ukrainian fencer who refused to shake her Russian opponent’s hand and the winner of Ukraine’s first 2024 Olympic medal.
Donna Kelce is taking heat for sharing a Facebook post that claims you are a “homophobe” for criticizing the 2024 Olympics ceremony.
Four restaurants in Ohio have announced they will not televise the Olympics to their patrons after the “insulting” displays during the opening ceremonies in Paris on Friday.
Olympic organizers were forced to order 4,000 pounds of meat and eggs quickly after athletes decried the fake meat and non-dairy options.
International Olympics Committee (IOC) spokesman Mark Adams declared that the Commission “fully supports” two fighters with male chromosomes who are set to compete this week against females.
Ron DeSantis said the overt mocking of Christianity in the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics is a “symbol of cultural decline.”
U.S. Tennis Olympian Coco Gauff was in tears Monday while arguing a call with the chair umpire before her loss to Croatia’s Donna Vekić.
A Chinese state outlet mocked French culture for its “sense of relaxation” on Monday, blaming it for errors at the Paris Olympics.
U.S. men’s gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik triumphantly won a bronze medal in pommel horse Monday, bringing the USA its first team medal in the sport since 2008.
Row upon row of empty seats at the Paris Olympic Games has reportedly sent organizers into a panic, prompting them to offer tourists tickets at fire-sale prices.
The leftist-populist Slovak government announced it will not attend the closing ceremonies of the Olympics over the “insult” to Christianity.
Brazilian skateboarder Rayssa Leal won a bronze medal in the street skateboarding event n Sunday, and iquoted the Bible after her big win.
Herda Raouf, head of the Iraqi delegation to the Paris Olympics, said on Saturday that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has refused Iraq’s request not to display the Israeli flag next to theirs during soccer matches.
Communist Cuba, a regime that has for decades used sports competitions to elevate its geopolitical profile, has faced a series of embarrassments in the first days of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics – including a high-profile defection before the Games even began and a loss in boxing to a Cuban exile.
ESPN’s Pat McAfee has added his voice to those condemning the organizers of the Olympics for the satanic and blasphemous opening ceremony program produced by an activist French artist.
Athletes are ditching Paris’s Olympic village after being forced to deal with “vegan-friendly” food, cardboard beds, and no air conditioning.
A drag queen who carried the torch of the Olympic flame in Paris’s opening ceremony told critics, “We ain’t going nowhere.”
Two boxers — Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan — have reportedly been cleared by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to fight in the 2024 Paris Olympics despite their previous disqualification from the International Boxing Association’s Women’s World Boxing Championships in March of 2023 after DNA tests were ordered amid concerns over their sex.
Eurosport’s Bob Ballard is apologizing for a “sexist” comment that ultimately led to his removal from network coverage of the Olympic Games.
The International Olympic Committee apologized to the nation of South Korea for incorrectly identifying its delegation as North Korea’s.
Former MLB All-Star pitcher Roy Oswalt called the Paris Olympic opening ceremonies “insulting” and predicted that would cause people not to watch the Games.
