One of China’s most successful and popular Olympians, two-time gold medalist swimmer Pan Zhanle, shut down his official fan page on the regime-controlled Weibo social media site this week, prompting loud applause from state media for taking a stand against “toxic fan culture.”
Three German swimmers became ill after competing in the open water races in the Seine River at the Paris Olympics.
The China Anti-Doping Agency issued a statement on Thursday demanding the world force American athletes to take more tests for banned substances, an apparent respond to growing condemning of the Chinese Olympics team for allowing athletes who tested positive for banned substances compete in Paris.
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.
Organizers designed the Olympic Village to be an eco-friendly habitation that would prioritize oneness with the environment. Well, in a sense, they achieved that. Olympic athletes are so miserable in the Olympic Village that they are embracing sleeping outdoors in
Belgium said it would withdraw from the mixed relay triathlon at the Olympics after one of its competitors who swam in the Seine River fell ill.
Chinese media blamed swimmer Zhang Yufei’s poor performance at the Olympics on “crazy smears” against its athletes after failed doping tests in 2021.
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.
Water in the Seine River had unsafe elevated levels of E. coli less than two months before swimming competitions during the Paris Olympics.
Paris Olympics organizers canceled a swimming test event Saturday in the Seine River because of new concerns about water quality.
Australian gold medal winner Emma McKeon has come out against allowing biological males to compete among biological females in sports.
Tokyo Olympic organizers are scrambling to clean the local Odaiba Marine Park before its use as an official Olympic venue starting July 26 after local residents and Olympic athletes complained this week the park and its surrounding bay emit a “foul odor,” Australia’s Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.
A young British swimming champion’s career came crashing down, after contracting Lyme disease from a tick bite during a “once-in-a-lifetime” chance to pet a panda bear in China.
