Rahima Mahmut is strong. Very strong. But she is also scared, which is why she wants her words to go to higher places and travel faster.
More than anything, she just wants people to know, to understand the horrors she sees behind those five Olympic rings.
They are horrors that make her voice tremble across a harrowing conversation. Horrors that make her eyes moist. Horrors she claims are intensifying in a spiral of atrocities and oppression, but whose alleged perpetrators,
When the International Olympic Committee met seven years ago to choose a host for the 2022 Winter Games, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, sent a short video message that helped tip the scale in a close, controversial vote.
China had limited experience with winter sports. Little snow falls in the distant hills where outdoor events would take place. Pollution was so dense at times that it was known as the “Airpocalypse.”
Mr. Xi pledged to resolve all of this, putting his
Lamine Diack, der ehemalige Präsident des Leichtathletik-Weltverbandes, der letztes Jahr wegen Bestechung im Zusammenhang mit einem russischen Dopingskandal wegen Korruption verurteilt wurde, starb am Freitag in seinem Haus im Senegal. Er war 88.
Sein Tod wurde von seinem Sohn Papa Massata Diack bestätigt.
Herr Diack war jahrzehntelang einer der mächtigsten Männer im Sport als Mitglied des Internationalen Olympischen Komitees und als Leiter der International Association of Athletics Federations, besser bekannt unter ihren Initialen, der IAAF, die er von 1999 bis
Die Olympischen Winterspiele und Paralympics 2022 in Peking sind zwar noch mehr als drei Monate entfernt, aber das Rennen um den Gewinn des Modewettbewerbs hat bereits begonnen. Der erste große Name aus den Startlöchern: Kanada, das am 26. Oktober sein offizielles Spiele-Kit enthüllte – Eröffnungs- und Abschlusszeremonie-Stile, Podiums-Outfits und Village-Ausrüstung – und eine neue mehrjährige Partnerschaft mit Lululemon.
Yup: Sie sind für die nächsten vier Olympischen und Paralympischen Spiele All-In im Athleisure-Bereich gegangen. Aber weißt du was? Es sieht ziemlich
If you’ve been watching the Olympics, you may have noticed that synchronized swimming has a new name. In July 2017, the International Swimming Federation, or FINA, announced that the sport would be called “artistic swimming,” effective immediately. Not everyone was a fan—to put it mildly.
“‘Artistic Swimming’ sounds like something society ladies did with their bosom friends at garden parties or after tea in the early 20th century,” wrote Jessica Lewis, one of more than 11,000 people from 88 countries
In the middle of the night nearly two years ago, construction crews gathered near Senso-ji, Tokyo’s oldest Buddhist temple and a popular tourist site. The streets were empty, the air was sultry and the workers hoped it would not rain. Machines rumbled to life.
It was a little thing, barely noticed. But it was a sign of the sometimes futile and farcical lengths taken to put on the biggest show in sports.
More than 1,000 Japanese had died of heat-related
No list of Olympic athletes could encompass all the stories of human achievement on display at the Summer Games. But if you’re looking for some names to root for (or against) in Tokyo, here are a few to start with. (Note that some still need to qualify to compete this year.)
Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history, has set the bar so high for her competitors in Tokyo that perhaps no one can beat
