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Backyard Pole Vault Pits, Peloton Competitions: How Olympic Athletes Got Creative With Their Lockdown Training
Top athletes everywhere improvised, finding ways to train even as the Summer Olympics were postponed a year because of the pandemic. One built a backyard pole vault runway, another installed a shot put ring, they ran through the streets, transformed garages into home gyms and planned to create bubbles to compete on the basketball court.
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Interactive: Which Countries Dominate the Summer Olympics?
The United States dominates in terms of gold medals with over 1,060 of them won since the first game in Athens, but could the nation’s success at the Olympics be based around sending more athletes than their competitors?
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Tokyo Olympics Medal Ceremonies Will Look Very Different — Here Are the Details
The announcement comes on the heels of the Tokyo Olympics’ organizers banning spectators from the Summer Games.
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Breastfeeding Olympians Allowed to Bring Babies to Tokyo
The move comes after Kim Gaucher made an emotional plea via Instagram to have 3-month-old daughter Sophie travel with her to the Games
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Serena Williams Says She Will Not Play at the Tokyo Olympics
Serena Williams says she will not go to the Tokyo Olympics
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Refugee Team of 29 Athletes Picked for Tokyo Olympics
The refugee team for the Tokyo Olympics has 29 athletes competing in 12 sports
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Yes. Tokyo Olympics Are ‘a Go' Despite Opposition, Pandemic
Will the Tokyo Olympics open despite rising opposition and the pandemic
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IOC VP Says Tokyo Olympics Will Proceed Even If State of Emergency in Place
The IOC vice president in charge of the Tokyo Olympics says the games will open in just over two months even if the city and other parts of Japan are under a state of emergency because of rising COVID-19 cases
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Will Tokyo Olympics Allow Local Fans? Decision Delayed Until June
Japanese residents with tickets to the Tokyo Olympics may not know until weeks before the games open if they’ll be allowed to attend
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Get a 1st Look at Team USA's Olympic Closing Ceremony Outfits
This year’s uniforms were created with sustainability in mind
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Japan Denies Olympics Cancellation Rumors 6 Months Out
With just six months to go before the delayed 2020 Olympics is scheduled to open in Tokyo, organizers are denying reports of Japan shuttering the games for good.
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Countdown to Tokyo: US Athletes Talk Dreams, Virus Fears a Year Ahead of Summer Games
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics, now set to be held in 2021, will be unlike any other. What will it take to make Olympians feel safe enough to compete in next year’s Summer Games?
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‘McDreamy' to Be Honorary Captain of US Olympic Cycling Team
Patrick Dempsey will serve as the honorary captain for the U.S. cycling team at the Tokyo Olympics this summer, part of a unique working relationship between USA Cycling and the actor best known for his role on “Grey’s Anatomy
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Tokyo Marks 6 Months Until Summer Olympics With Fireworks Show
Tokyo put on a flashy fireworks display to mark the 6-months-to-go milestone for this year’s Olympics
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Molly Solomon Promoted to Lead NBC Olympics Coverage
Molly Solomon began her career at NBC Sports as a researcher for its Olympics coverage. Nearly 30 years later, she will lead its coverage. NBC announced Tuesday that it has promoted Solomon to executive producer and president of the network’s Olympics unit, becoming the first woman to be an executive producer for a network sports division.
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That Shirtless Tongan Olympian From Rio Is Trying to Mount a Comeback for Pyeongchang
Taekwondo specialist Pita Taufatofua is trying to mount an improbable Olympic comeback — not for the next Summer Games, but next month at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, despite representing a tiny tropical island nation in the South Pacific.
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Special Olympics Athlete Dies After Medical Emergency at Competition
A Special Olympics Illinois athlete suffered a medical emergency while competing in the State Summer Games and died on Saturday, the organization announced. The athlete suffered a medical emergency during a swimming competition at the event, which took place in Normal. Lifeguards and EMT’s, who were already on scene in accordance with event protocols, immediately came to the athlete’s aid,...
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Butt Spray, Chalk and Jell-O Improve Olympic Athletic Performance
Hair gelatin and butt spray and speed glue. Oh my. From the bizarre to the edible, and everything in between, Olympic athletes are willing to employee any trick that will help perfect their performance. After watching the Olympics competition in synchronized swimming, some spectators walked away wondering how they managed to keep their cap-free hair and makeup immaculate throughout the...
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Donald Trump, Ryan Lochte and the Politics of Contrition
Add two fresh entries to the increasingly popular genre of non-apology apologies. In a span of 15 hours, politician Donald Trump and Olympian Ryan Lochte both coughed up carefully crafted words of contrition — each without fully owning up to exactly what he’d done wrong. Trump, the serial insulter of the 2016 presidential campaign, said he’d sometimes said “the wrong...
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Soccer Fans Taunt Hope Solo With ‘Zika' Chants During Team USA's Olympic Opener
Hope Solo says she was not bothered by fans who chanted “Zika, Zika” at her as the U.S. women’s soccer team defeated New Zealand in its Olympic debut on Wednesday.