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Twitter temporarily banned conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey for a tweet about the transgender athlete Gavin “Laurel” Hubbard, who competed for New Zealand at the Tokyo Olympics — on the women’s team.

U.S. Olympic Track and Field legend Carl Lewis blasted Team U.S.A.’s men’s 4×100 Relay team Wednesday when the U.S. failed to medal.

USA Today’s Nancy Armour said, “you’re not an American” if you rooted against the woke U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT).

A video from behind the scenes at the 2021 Summer Olympics appears to show handlers pressuring Mijaín López, a Cuban four-time gold medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling, to repeat communist slogans and praise Fidel Castro, the Cuban independent site ADN Cuba reported Wednesday.

After repeated shocking losses to teams that no one expected to beat them, the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team salvaged a disappointing third-place Bronze medal by beating Australia on Thursday.

Hua Chunying, the most senior spokesperson at the Chinese Foreign Ministry, applauded American gymnast Simone Biles on Thursday in a Twitter post, apparently for showing grace to Chinese competitor Guan Chenchen.

NBC’s Saturday night telecast of the 2021 Woke Olympics hit the lowest number on record,

At the Olympics, a reporter was met with awkward silence when he asked the woman’s Olympic weightlifting medalist at the podium about Laurel Hubbard’s participation in the Tokyo Olympic Games. 

KAMIYOGA, Japan (AP) — Equestrian jumpers aren’t keen on surprises. Neither are the horses, and it takes years of training to keep them from getting spooked.

Sydney McLaughlin beat the rest of the field and herself as she smashed her own world record to take gold in the women’s 400m hurdles on Wednesday, edging out fellow American Dalilah Muhammad, who took silver.

The same day U.S.A. gymnast Simone Biles won a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, saying it “means more than all of the golds,” New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Biles “brave” and “a role model” for her decision to drop out of the women’s team final to take care of her mental health.

KAMIYOGA, Japan (AP) — Jessica Springsteen had no luck going solo in Tokyo. Perhaps she’ll do better with a band.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday asked China to explain why two of its gold medalist athletes wore badges featuring the likeness of Mao Zedong, the murderous tyrant who established the Communist People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949.

Gwen Berry, a U.S. Olympic hammer thrower who turned away from the American flag during the playing of the national anthem, failed to medal during finals on Tuesday.

U.S. gymnastics star Simone Biles returned to the Olympic Games on Tuesday, saying “I did it for me” as she claimed bronze in the beam final.

After a number of woke Olympics warriors lost this week, many Americans jumped to social media to celebrate their demise, Team USA or no.

After the U.S. women’s soccer team lost 1-0 to Canada on Monday at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, forward Megan Rapinoe told reporters, “Obviously we never want to lose to Canada. I don’t think I’ve ever lost to Canada. … this sucks. It sucks.”

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, a 24-year-old Olympic sprinter, took refuge in the Polish embassy in Tokyo on Monday after criticizing her coaches and subsequently fearing the repressive leftist regime in her native Belarus would endanger her life and that of her family.

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) announced Monday the woke Team USA Olympic shot putter, Raven Saunders, did not violate any rules when putting her arms over her head in the form of an “X” while on the podium receiving her medal during the Tokyo Olympics Games.

U.S. Olympian and national anthem protester Gwen Berry claims she has “earned the right” to wear the red, white, and blue of Team U.S.A.

There will be no gold medal chance for the U.S. women’s soccer team at the Tokyo Olympics after they went down to Canada early Monday morning.

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.

TOKYO (AP) – Aidan Walsh has been forced out of his semifinal bout at the Tokyo Olympics after the Irish welterweight injured his ankle while celebrating his quarterfinal victory.

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.

Laurel Hubbard, the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics, thanked the IOC for making the Games “inclusive.”

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.

Only 15 million tuned in for NBC’s primetime broadcast of Tokyo’s Woke Olympics, a stunning 48 percent drop from the 29 million who tuned in on this same day for the 2016 Olympics.