:quality(85):upscale()/2024/08/06/791/n/1922729/085332f966b264802bd3f7.34996648_.jpg "Jordan Chiles’s Score Change and Bronze Medal Loss Explained")
The final days of the Olympic Games have taken an unexpected turn for Team USA Women’s Gymnastics. In a shocking twist, two-time Olympian, Jordan Chiles has been stripped of her …
:quality(85):upscale()/2024/08/12/905/n/1922729/96dcc43a66ba7410021981.72046312_.jpg "Olympic Breaking: Scoring, History, and How to Qualify")
The Olympics brings the world’s greatest athletic talents to the same stage, and this year, a new sport has officially entered the international arena: breaking. Breaking (otherwise known as breakdancing) …
:quality(85):upscale()/2024/08/09/658/n/1922729/3ec98a4066b62c27462b35.01012618_.jpg "What’s the Average Age of Olympic Athletes?")
People talk a lot about the bittersweet feelings that surround age-related milestones like turning 30 or 40. But one milestone you don’t hear so much about: when you realize you’re …
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Tara Davis-Woodhall and Hunter Woodhall’s love story might as well be acted out in Netflix’s next rom-com. The pro athletes are are competing in the Olympic and Paralympic Games this …
:quality(85):upscale()/2024/08/08/962/n/1922729/16c9855766b5414e7a6548.18525719_.jpg "The Olympics Made Me Appreciate My Own Mind and Body")
I never did team sports growing up. I danced for several years — I was an ’80s baby, after all, and every late ’80s and early ’90s baby will tell …
:quality(85):upscale()/2024/08/08/888/n/3019466/172e6e7e66b5286b4e9179.71830398_.jpg "The Dating Lives of Olympic Athletes")
By now, you’ve probably heard the stories surrounding sex in the Olympic Village — the horniness, the debauchery, the parties. It makes sense: Every four years, the best athletes from …
:quality(85):upscale()/2024/08/08/077/n/1922729/d74c0cc066b5682d2b7380.50139138_.jpg "A Guide to Sitting Volleyball: Rules, Scoring, and History")
Volleyball is one of the most eagerly anticipated events at the Olympic and Paralympic Games, so it’s a good time to brush up on the rules of sitting volleyball. According …
:quality(85):upscale()/2024/08/08/952/n/1922729/e677b24266b53ddc301711.27594778_.jpg "Tara Davis-Woodhall Talks Mental Health Ahead Paris Olympics")
Tara Davis-Woodhall had two words on her mind for the Paris 2024 Olympics: unfinished business. After placing second at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in the long jump, the track …
:quality(85):upscale()/2024/08/07/635/n/1922729/d3f55c3c66b3817e596bb3.07065550_.jpg "Pickleball Player Tyra Hurricane Black on Racism in Sports")
There are moments that change our lives forever, and for professional pickleball star Tyra “Hurricane” Black, that turning point came on February 6, 2023. Black, a former tennis player, was …
:quality(85):upscale()/2024/08/06/981/n/1922729/dd92124166b2a4c47609d7.60542479_.jpg "Olympic Gymnastics Had Its First All-Black Podium")
This year’s Olympic gymnastics were full of emotional moments, but one of the most powerful actually took place off the mat. On Aug. 5, Team USA’s Simone Biles and Jordan …