The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) issued a scathing statement condemning America’s top sports substance testing authority on Wednesday, blasting it as “ironic and hypocritical” for demanding more testing after Chinese athletes were found to have ingested banned substances prior to the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Chinese state-run propaganda magazine Global Times accused international athletes and staff at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Monday of “racial determinism” for expressing concern in public regarding the fact that Chinese athletes who tested positive for banned substances were allowed to compete.
Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif, who has been at the center of controversy after the International Boxing Association (IBA) chief claimed Khelif had male chromosomes, refused to answer any questions on Sunday about biological sex or fairness concerns at the Paris Games.
China’s state-run Global Times complained that Olympic doping tests are a form of “psychological” warfare against the nation’s athletes.
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.
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.
The International Olympic Committee apologized to the nation of South Korea for incorrectly identifying its delegation as North Korea’s.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) made the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and relevant Utah officials effectively stop questioning the legitimacy of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) probes into Chinese athletes, National Public Radio (NPR) reported on Wednesday.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach received a warm welcome in China this week, attending Chinese Olympic qualifier events and receiving an honorary professorship at the Shanghai University of Sport (SUS).
Cricket is set to break a century–plus absence and become an Olympic sport for just the second time at the Los Angeles 2028 Games, a report Monday revealed. According to the UK Times newspaper, the executive board of the International Olympic
A man identifying as a woman has won bronze in the women’s 400m at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships in Paris.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued an impassioned condemnation on Monday of remarks by a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who accused the institution of being a “promoter of war, murder, and destruction” for ruling in favor of allowing Russian and Belarusian people to compete in its events.
The world’s most prestigious sporting institutions dove headfirst into a return to normal following two years of pandemic rules in 2022 – with the help of some of the planet’s most egregious human rights abusers.
Any prospect of Russia’s athletes returning to the international spotlight at the 2024 Summer Olympics was flatly rejected Wednesday by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.
JERUSALEM — The head of the International Olympic Committee apologized Wednesday for the organization’s longtime failure to commemorate 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian militants at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Germany and Israel’s presidents on Monday marked 50 years since the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, which included a public acknowledgement of Germany’s role in the tragedy which saw 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian terrorists.
Canadian swimmer Mary-Sophie Harvey posted a warning to be careful after she says she was slipped drugs as the World Aquatics Championships.
A transgender former rugby player in Australia has hit out at moves to ban participation at international level, saying a new generation of players is being “punished” for being themselves.
On Sunday, the international governing body for swimming, officially enacted rules that will exclude transgender swimmers such as Lia Thomas.
Fina, the world’s swimming governing body, has minted new rules that exclude males who have experienced puberty from women’s competitions.
Transgender golfer Mianne Bagger says it’s “utter rubbish” that “male-bodied” transgenders are competing with women in professional sports.
Russia’s national rugby team has been was banned from participating in the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France as a penalty for the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
On Friday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) called for the cancellation of events planned in Russia.
Fifteen-year-old Russian skater Kamila Valieva, bizarrely permitted to continue competing in the disastrous Beijing Winter Olympics after failing a drug test, claimed through her lawyers on Tuesday that she might have drunk from a water glass contaminated by her grandfather’s heart medication.
Chinese state media on Thursday tried to counter widespread reports of poor-quality food and borderline starvation among foreign athletes at the Beijing Winter Olympic village by claiming the visitors were actually enjoying a “banquet of delicacies” to go along with the corrupt and morally compromised “sports feast” of the Genocide Games.
NBC’s Tuesday night telecast of the Beijing Winter Olympics drew catastrophic ratings with a -59 percent plunge compared to the 2018 PyeongChang Games, reports Sports Media Watch.
The Wall Street Journal revealed on Sunday that Dinigeer Yilamujiang, a Uyghur athlete who China made an Olympic torchbearer for the Opening Ceremonies, violated Olympic rules and failed to meet journalists after a poor performance on Saturday.
The Chinese government-run Global Times newspaper asserted in a column on Sunday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “was right” to tell athletes last week to resist criticizing the Communist Party while competing in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Chinese tennis champion Peng Shuai, who went missing in November after accusing the former head of China’s Olympic Committee of rape, resurfaced this weekend to promote the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, issuing an interview where she again denied allegations and expressing excitement over winter sports.
UK lawmakers joined activists from Hong Kong, Tibet and Xinjiang to condemn the “Genocide Games” Olympics being held in Communist China.
Sen. Blackburn is highlighting a bill to protect girl and women from competing in sports against men who “identify” as transgender women.
China prominently featured a soldier who participated in the 2020 Galwan Valley battle against India as an Olympics torchbearer during a relay in Beijing on Wednesday, stoking tensions with its next-door neighbor by returning the vicious brawl – which India won – to the headlines.
A senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) official told the Chinese propaganda newspaper Global Times in an interview on Tuesday that the Communist Party leadership had prepared for the Winter Olympics, beginning this week, “extraordinarily” and that the event would be an “extraordinary party.”
Legendary broadcaster Bob Costas is blasting the IOC for holding the games in notoriously oppressive communist China.
Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) said the “swamp is lighting up” to defeat a proposed ban on government contracting with Beijing Olympics sponsors.
A Chinese official in charge of relations for the upcoming Olympics said that athletes who criticize China will be punished for speaking out.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) published a video this week featuring over two dozen athletes calling for governments around the world to more effectively distribute vacccines for Chinese coronavirus to the most vulnerable.
The repressive communist government of North Korea announced on Friday through state media channels that it would not participate in the 2020 Beijing Winter Olympics, citing condemnation of its ally China by “hostile forces” as the reason.
