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.”
NBCUniversal on Thursday attributed record-low viewer ratings for the Tokyo Olympics to a host of factors, with chief executive officer Jeff Shell pleading “We had a little bit of bad luck… there was a drumbeat of negativity… we got moved a year… no spectators” as he sought to square the poor viewer response against network expectations.
Chinese state media on Thursday accused judges at the Tokyo Summer Olympics of rigging the men’s gymnastics all-around competition in favor of Japan’s Hashimoto Daiki over China’s Xiao Ruoteng.
Hong Kong badminton star Angus Ng Ka-long, ranked as the Number 9 player in the world going into the Olympics, was unexpectedly defeated on Wednesday by the far lower-ranked Guatemalan player Kevin Cordon.
MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Wednesday on her show “Deadline” that “doughy white right-leaning losers” criticizing Simone Biles for withdrawing from gymnastics events at the Tokyo Olympics shows America was “f’d up.”
It’s official: the 2020 Woke Olympics are a five-alarm ratings catastrophe.
Tokyo reported thousands of new cases of the Chinese coronavirus Wednesday with the Olympic Games underway, as U.S. officials surrender, instructing vaccinated people to mask up over fears of the virus spread.
Olympic athletes competing in outdoor games have become increasingly vocal in their protests that Tokyo’s summer heat is a threat to their health, prompting tennis to reconfigure its schedule on Wednesday to the evenings to keep players out of the sun.
Hillary Clinton jumped to Facebook to praise USA Gymnast Simone Biles on the heels of her decision to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics.
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.
All in, including streaming viewers, this year’s Woke Olympics are earning record low ratings.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama lent her support to US gymnast Simone Biles following her withdrawal from the Tokyo Games due to emotional and mental stress issues.
Iranian defector and judoka Saeid Mollaei dedicated his silver medal to Israel at the Tokyo Olympics, and thanked the Jewish state for the “good energy.”
Ugandan police arrested a Ugandan weightlifter last week for attempting to defect to Japan on July 16 while visiting the country along with the Ugandan Olympic team, Voice of America (VOA) reported Monday.
American gymnastics superstar Simone Biles announced Wednesday she is abandoning the defence of her individual all-around Olympic crown to focus solely on her mental well-being.
Simone Biles deserves all the criticism for not being ready to compete. But, the facts prove she didn’t quit on her team. She saved it.
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.
‘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.”
Tokyo Olympics promises to stop sexualizing female athletes and report about their “sports appeal,” but not their “sex appeal.”
As the Olympic Games take place in Tokyo, the Russian military is staging drills in the Kuril Islands, a contested archipelago north of the Japanese island of Hokkaido, which Moscow formally administers, but to which Japan stills lays claim.
Simone Biles says that her unexpected withdrawal from the Olympics gymnastics competition on Tuesday wasn’t injury-related. Instead, she says she withdrew due to the emotional stress of being the “head star” of the Olympics.
A South Korean public broadcaster was forced to issue an apology on Monday after social media users accused the TV station of using “inappropriate” images and commentary during its coverage of the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony on July 23, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported.
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.
U.S. sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson’s exclusion from the Tokyo Olympics after being caught smoking marijuana may be the last time an athlete is denied a place for such a personal indiscretion, the president of international track body World Athletics said Tuesday.
Pop singer Pink offered to pay the fines for the Norwegian female beach handball team after they wore shorts in defiance of a league rule requiring the ladies to wear bikini bottoms during games.
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.
The headlines about challenges at the 2021 Olympics summer games have focused on the coronavirus. Though, it turns out the brutal summer heat and humidity are what’s wreaking havoc on athletes.
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.
WNBA players have protested against the anthem all season long, but now that they’re in the Olympics, that’s about to change.
The opening ceremony for Tokyo’s Woke Olympic, a ceremony so “depressing” even the corporate media complained, hit a 30-year low.
The woke 2021 Tokyo Olympics is facing a tropical typhoon headed its way with torrential rain and 56 mph winds.
Empty seats, zero atmosphere, diminished team numbers, local protests and a world distracted by coronavirus all combined to deliver just 16.7 million viewers for NBC’s four-hour long broadcast of the Tokyo Olympic Games opening ceremony on Friday. It was the smallest U.S. television audience for the event in the past 33 years.
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.”
First Lady Jill Biden arrived to cheer on the US swim team on Saturday but ended up getting cheered on herself as the American swimmers clapped and shouted “Dr. Biden! Dr. Biden!” as the swimmers prepared to race.
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.
