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Legendary Olympians Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky weighed in on why nervousness before competitions is key to success
Even winners get nervous. Simone Biles said "if you're not nervous, you're not ready" and Katie Led…
Meredith Cash
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The Summer Olympics face corruption allegations for the 3rd time in a row as police raid the 2024 Paris Olympics offices
Both the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were marred by similar allegations against o…
Katie Hawkinson
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Sony Sports has embarked on a mission to popularize the athletes participating in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and to make them household names: Rajesh Kaul of SPN
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China used to be the great exporter of Olympic talent. The Beijing Winter Games show China is becoming a talent importer.
For decades, Chinese-born table tennis players have been playing for other countries. Today, China …
Huileng Tan
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Mary Kom enters Olympic pre-quarters, outwits spirited Garcia from Dominica
The 38-year-old, who is a 2012 Olympic bronze-medallist, prevailed 4-1 against a rival who is 1…
PTI
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Olympic gold medalist says she's 'disappointed' by a US swimmer's decision not to get vaccinated ahead of the Tokyo Games
Olympic gold medalist Maya DiRado on Twitter called out Michael Andrew's decision to not get vacci…
Kelly McLaughlin
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An Olympic cyclist said she was pregnant when she won a silver medal at the Tokyo Games
Elinor Barker was part of Great Britain's women's team pursuit squad that clinched a medal in Augus…
Barnaby Lane
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Preparation for the Tokyo Olympics has been 'glaringly different' to previous Games, American gold medalist says
The USA Women's Water Polo team has been training with high school boys to make up for not being ab…
Barnaby Lane
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Olympic champion Tori Bowie is among too many Black women who have died from pregnancy-related complications
The CDC says that 84% of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable. Still, maternal mortality rates …
Trisha Gopal
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Inside Julie and Zach Ertz's 9-year relationship, from college sweethearts to the Olympic Games
Zach and Julie Ertz are each highly decorated athletes - here's how they balance Super Bowls, the O…
Gabbi Shaw
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A former Olympic gold medalist said she once passed time at the games by listening to other athletes having sex
Great Britain's Denise Lewis, who won gold in the women's heptathlon at Sydney 2000, said she was "…
Barnaby Lane
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Sunisa Lee, the first Hmong American to compete in the Olympic Games, wins gold in all-around gymnastics
Sunisa Lee, 18, took home the gold as teammate Simone Biles, who pulled out of the event earlier th…
Natalie Musumeci
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An Olympic gymnast apologized and said he was 'ashamed' for only winning bronze at the Tokyo Games
Nikita Nagornyy won a bronze medal in gymnastics at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and then apolog…
Alan Dawson
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Simone Biles says she's 'leaving the door open' to an Olympic return at Paris 2024 after her tumultuous Tokyo Games
Considered the greatest gymnast of all time, Simone Biles would be 27 by the time the next Olympics…
Sam Cooper
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Alex Morgan said the Tokyo Games weren't what she expected: 'We just weren't able to experience the Olympics feel'
"As much as I will cherish the bronze medal, it just wasn't the experience that I had initially tho…
Meredith Cash
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A photographer at the Tokyo Olympics explains how shooting this year's games is like a different world from previous years
Getty Images photographer Ryan Pierse has been shooting the Olympics for 16 years, but this year ha…
Jackson Thompson
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The first event of the Tokyo Olympics kicked off the games in brutal style with Japan beating its opponent so badly that it was forced to quit
Japan, which is the reigning softball gold medallist, beat Australia 8-1 on Wednesday, invoking a "…
Barnaby Lane
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Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas says gymnastics is a mental game despite athletes' stunning physical feats
USA Gymnastics Fierce Five and Final Five star Gabby Douglas told Insider about the "courage and mi…
Meredith Cash
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Naomi Osaka called lighting the Olympic flame 'greatest athletic achievement' she will ever have after she formally opened the Tokyo Games
The tennis star became the latest athlete honored with the gesture and succeeds Brazilian long-dist…
Sam Cooper
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400,000 COVID tests, billions of dollars, and an immense sense of pride: Meet the man responsible for pulling off the most complex Olympic Games ever
Christophe Dubi, the Olympic Games' Executive Director, led the planning, preparation, and delivery…