Olympics - Page 11

A little over a week after stepping away from the Tokyo Olympics to focus on her mental health, Simone Biles announced Monday she is now sufficiently composed for a return to competition.

Raven Saunders, Team USA’s shot putter, also known as the “The Hulk,” was pictured with her arms raised over her head in the form of an “X” while on the podium receiving her medal during the Tokyo Olympics Games.

When the U.S. women’s soccer team takes on Canada for the Tokyo 2020 semifinals on Monday, they will play against the first transgender Olympian in history.

Another day, another withdrawal. American gymnast Simone Biles announced Sunday she will not defend her Olympic gold medal on floor exercise.

Silent stadiums and lack of fans at the Tokyo Olympics are leaving Megan Rapinoe underwhelmed, the U.S. women’s soccer captain confessed Saturday.

TOKYO (AP) – Israel has won a bronze medal in the Olympic debut of mixed team judo, shocking the Russian team in the medal bout.

SAITAMA, Japan (AP) – Italy is headed back to the Olympic quarter-finals. Nigeria is going home, its Olympic experience not what it wanted on multiple levels.

Hong Kong police confirmed Friday that they had opened an investigation into videos surfacing online this week allegedly showing residents booing the “March of the Volunteers,” the national anthem of China.

Team USA’s shot put star Raven Saunders, known as the “The Hulk,” stunned the Tokyo Olympics on Friday by wearing a Joker mask from the DC Comic Universe.

Chinese state media on Friday walked back its accusations of biased judging in the men’s all-around gymnastics event after silver medalist Xiao Ruoteng asked his fans not to “attack other athletes who have fought hard for their goals.”

U.S. swimmer Michael Andrew ruffled the feathers of several social media users on Friday after it was revealed that he went maskless for a post-race interview at the Olympics.

Britain’s knee-taking women’s football (soccer) team has been left “devastating” after being knocked out of the Tokyo Olympics by the Australian side, which declined to perform the Black Lives Matter-inspired gesture.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) reaffirmed its full support of transgender athletes Friday when medical director Richard Budgett said  “transwomen are women” and should be included in women’s sport “when we possibly can.”

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday fumed over CNN supposedly mocking Chinese nationalism and insulting its efforts against the coronavirus during Tokyo Olympic coverage.

The Olympics is facing backlash after the official Twitter account for the event shared praise for an alleged Iranian marksman who won the gold medal in the air pistol men’s final.

A bipartisan congressional panel on Tuesday criticized brands such as Coca-Cola, Visa, Intel, Airbnb, and Procter & Gamble for sponsoring the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics despite China’s human rights violations, including the genocide of Uyghur Muslims.

Hidilyn Diaz won the Philippines’ first-ever Olympic gold medal for weightlifting on Monday, earning her an additional cash prize of $600,000 from the Philippine government and private companies, along with a new home, the Manila Bulletin reported on Tuesday.

Three-time Olympian Lolo Jones said Monday on Fox News Channel’s “America Reports” that Olympic protests were an unwelcome distraction to “many.”

‘Social anxiety’ sufferer Naomi Osaka, who was playing tennis in the Tokyo Olympics for Japan, failed to advance past the third round in the Games, saying the “pressure” she faced “was a bit much.”

Following the U.S. Woman’s Olympic team’s horrible loss to Sweden the other night after taking a knee for BLM, social justice warrior Megan Rapinoe said women’s sports “still needs to get better” criticism.

Costa Rican gymnast Luciana Alvarado paid tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement at the end of her first-floor routine at the Toyko Olympics on Sunday.

Surfing as an Olympic sport was made possible by centuries of American imperialism, as the United States used surfing as a tool to expand its powers abroad, according to a recent Washington Post op-ed.

One-in-three Democrat voters favor letting transgender men enter womens’ Olympics sports, according to a poll by Axios.

A second judo athlete dropped out of the “woke” Olympics and was sent home after refusing to face an Israeli Olympian.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry, through its embassy in Sri Lanka, complained this weekend that Reuters and, allegedly, other Western media outlets were deliberately choosing unflattering photos of Chinese Olympians in their coverage of the Summer Games.

The opening ceremony for Tokyo’s Woke Olympic, a ceremony so “depressing” even the corporate media complained, hit a 30-year low.

The woke NBCUniversal broadcasted a woke Olympics Opening Ceremony on Friday, and the verdict is in: the display was “depressing as hell,” a Daily Beast headline screamed.

An Algerian judo athlete, Fethi Nourine, along with his coach, have been suspended after they withdrew from the Tokyo Olympic games because they refused to face off against an Israeli opponent.

Football legend Herschel Walker recently sounded off about Olympians protesting the American flag and kneeling prior to games.

The first day of the Tokyo Olympics is wrapping up, and despite several near-misses, Team USA did not medal for the first time since the 1972 Summer Games.

Eddy Alvarez, a first-generation Cuban American and Team USA baseball player, teared up talking about the honor of being selected as flag-bearer.

John Legend, Keith Urban, and Angélique Kidjo led a version of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s utopian anthem “Imagine” at the Tokyo Olympics, which featured Legend, whose net worth is an estimated $75 million, belting out the line “imagine no possessions.”

SAPPORO, Japan (AP) – Ellen White scored her third goal in two games at the Olympics, heading Britain to a 1-0 victory over Japan on Saturday and earning a place in the women’s soccer quarterfinals.

The German female gymnastics team at the Tokyo Olympics debuted full-body unitards this week in a protest against the sexualization of their sport.

All signs, including polls, point to humiliating ratings for the Woketard Olympics on NBC.

Olympics Opening Ceremony Director Kentaro Kobayashi was removed from his post following the reports of previously making comments about the Holocaust.