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State broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) asked a female Chinese shot putter who had just won an Olympic gold medal in her field when she plans to start “a woman’s life” during a post-competition interview on Sunday, the Guardian reported Friday.

Allyson Felix has won her 11th Olympic medal by combining with her American teammates to finish the 4×400-meter relay in 3 minutes, 16.85 seconds for a runaway victory.

TOKYO (AP) – A German coach at the Tokyo Olympics was suspended Saturday after being filmed hitting an uncooperative horse during the women’s modern pentathlon competition.

China’s state-run Global Times on Friday threw a fit over Australia’s News.com describing 14-year-old Olympic gold medalist diver Quan Hongchan as “pokerfaced.”

U.S. wrestler Gable Steveson won the gold in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with a last-second, 2-point takedown just .4 seconds before the buzzer Friday.

Venezuela is celebrating its best Olympic performance ever, forcing the athletes to publicly pick sides between the Venezuelan people and the regime oppressing them.

TOKYO (AP) — She describes herself as “old.” She concedes she wasn’t sure she’d make it this far. There were times, though, when “making it” had nothing to do with the Olympics and everything to do with simply climbing out of her hospital bed.

Race walking is one of the few Olympic sports that have no female category, and now the IOC has canceled it over “gender equity” concerns.

The sports media has found a target for its “Big Vax” attack machine, and that target is Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins.

National Basketball Association (NBA) player Enes Kanter declared Thursday that he will continue criticizing the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his family homeland of Turkey, despite the Turkish government issuing “nine arrest warrants” against him for “standing up for human rights, freedom, and political prisoners who are getting tortured.”

Twitter temporarily banned conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey for a tweet about the transgender athlete Gavin “Laurel” Hubbard, who competed for New Zealand at the Tokyo Olympics — on the women’s team.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has mocked Guy Verhofstadt for suggesting the European Union should be at the top of the Olympics table after adding together the medals of the 27 individual countries that make up the bloc.

U.S. Olympic Track and Field legend Carl Lewis blasted Team U.S.A.’s men’s 4×100 Relay team Wednesday when the U.S. failed to medal.

Carli Lloyd was one of the few bright spots for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team in Tokyo for leading the team in goals and patriotism when she remained standing when her teammates all took a knee.

Google has admitted to removing ads from an article by Piers Morgan on the website of the Daily Mail, one of Britain’s most widely-read newspapers, due to what the tech giant alleged were “racist” comments below the line of the article.

Daniel Donaldson and his family members left the decision to their teenage foster daughter whether she wanted to be legally adopted or not.

USA Today’s Nancy Armour said, “you’re not an American” if you rooted against the woke U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT).

If the NFL was waiting to receive a “Thank You” card from Jimmy Graham for “encouraging” him to get the coronavirus vaccine, they can keep waiting.

A video from behind the scenes at the 2021 Summer Olympics appears to show handlers pressuring Mijaín López, a Cuban four-time gold medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling, to repeat communist slogans and praise Fidel Castro, the Cuban independent site ADN Cuba reported Wednesday.

U.S. shot putter Raven Saunders garnered attention this week during her appearance at the Tokyo Olympics when she twerked after her last throw to take second place and a silver medal.

Facebook-owned Instagram recently suspended Jamaican gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah from its platform after she posted videos of her own Olympic 100 and 200-meter race wins. The Masters of the Universe now call her suspension a “mistake.”

After repeated shocking losses to teams that no one expected to beat them, the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team salvaged a disappointing third-place Bronze medal by beating Australia on Thursday.

The U.S. Women’s team claimed a bronze medal after beating Australia’s team with a 4-3 victory.

Hua Chunying, the most senior spokesperson at the Chinese Foreign Ministry, applauded American gymnast Simone Biles on Thursday in a Twitter post, apparently for showing grace to Chinese competitor Guan Chenchen.

While other sports leagues try to force their players to get vaccinated, Dana White says that’s “Never Gonna Happen” in the UFC.

LONDON (AP) – British police said Thursday they have made 11 arrests in connection with the online racial abuse of England soccer players following their team’s loss to Italy in the final of the European Championship last month.

NASCAR announced Wednesday it is adjusting its health protocols to meet coronavirus threats it deems a threat to competitors and their support crews.