The International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued an impassioned condemnation on Monday of remarks by a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who accused the institution of being a “promoter of war, murder, and destruction” for ruling in favor of allowing Russian and Belarusian people to compete in its events.
The world’s most prestigious sporting institutions dove headfirst into a return to normal following two years of pandemic rules in 2022 – with the help of some of the planet’s most egregious human rights abusers.
Any prospect of Russia’s athletes returning to the international spotlight at the 2024 Summer Olympics was flatly rejected Wednesday by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.
JERUSALEM — The head of the International Olympic Committee apologized Wednesday for the organization’s longtime failure to commemorate 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian militants at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Germany and Israel’s presidents on Monday marked 50 years since the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, which included a public acknowledgement of Germany’s role in the tragedy which saw 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian terrorists.
Canadian swimmer Mary-Sophie Harvey posted a warning to be careful after she says she was slipped drugs as the World Aquatics Championships.
A transgender former rugby player in Australia has hit out at moves to ban participation at international level, saying a new generation of players is being “punished” for being themselves.
On Sunday, the international governing body for swimming, officially enacted rules that will exclude transgender swimmers such as Lia Thomas.
Fina, the world’s swimming governing body, has minted new rules that exclude males who have experienced puberty from women’s competitions.
Transgender golfer Mianne Bagger says it’s “utter rubbish” that “male-bodied” transgenders are competing with women in professional sports.
Russia’s national rugby team has been was banned from participating in the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France as a penalty for the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
On Friday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) called for the cancellation of events planned in Russia.
Fifteen-year-old Russian skater Kamila Valieva, bizarrely permitted to continue competing in the disastrous Beijing Winter Olympics after failing a drug test, claimed through her lawyers on Tuesday that she might have drunk from a water glass contaminated by her grandfather’s heart medication.
Chinese state media on Thursday tried to counter widespread reports of poor-quality food and borderline starvation among foreign athletes at the Beijing Winter Olympic village by claiming the visitors were actually enjoying a “banquet of delicacies” to go along with the corrupt and morally compromised “sports feast” of the Genocide Games.
NBC’s Tuesday night telecast of the Beijing Winter Olympics drew catastrophic ratings with a -59 percent plunge compared to the 2018 PyeongChang Games, reports Sports Media Watch.
The Wall Street Journal revealed on Sunday that Dinigeer Yilamujiang, a Uyghur athlete who China made an Olympic torchbearer for the Opening Ceremonies, violated Olympic rules and failed to meet journalists after a poor performance on Saturday.
The Chinese government-run Global Times newspaper asserted in a column on Sunday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “was right” to tell athletes last week to resist criticizing the Communist Party while competing in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Chinese tennis champion Peng Shuai, who went missing in November after accusing the former head of China’s Olympic Committee of rape, resurfaced this weekend to promote the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, issuing an interview where she again denied allegations and expressing excitement over winter sports.
UK lawmakers joined activists from Hong Kong, Tibet and Xinjiang to condemn the “Genocide Games” Olympics being held in Communist China.
Sen. Blackburn is highlighting a bill to protect girl and women from competing in sports against men who “identify” as transgender women.
China prominently featured a soldier who participated in the 2020 Galwan Valley battle against India as an Olympics torchbearer during a relay in Beijing on Wednesday, stoking tensions with its next-door neighbor by returning the vicious brawl – which India won – to the headlines.
A senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) official told the Chinese propaganda newspaper Global Times in an interview on Tuesday that the Communist Party leadership had prepared for the Winter Olympics, beginning this week, “extraordinarily” and that the event would be an “extraordinary party.”
Legendary broadcaster Bob Costas is blasting the IOC for holding the games in notoriously oppressive communist China.
Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) said the “swamp is lighting up” to defeat a proposed ban on government contracting with Beijing Olympics sponsors.
A Chinese official in charge of relations for the upcoming Olympics said that athletes who criticize China will be punished for speaking out.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) published a video this week featuring over two dozen athletes calling for governments around the world to more effectively distribute vacccines for Chinese coronavirus to the most vulnerable.
The repressive communist government of North Korea announced on Friday through state media channels that it would not participate in the 2020 Beijing Winter Olympics, citing condemnation of its ally China by “hostile forces” as the reason.
An activist group called the Coalition to End Forced Labor in the Uyghur Region on Tuesday charged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) with refusing to answer if slaves are making its merchandise for the Beijing Winter Games.
A well-known Iranian powerlifter is seeking asylum in Norway after fearing for his life for refusing to wear a t-shirt featuring assassinated Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani.
A list of multi-national corporations are sponsoring the 2022 Olympics, but have refused to speak out about China’s human rights record.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin effusively accepted an invitation to attend the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics from dictator Xi Jinping this week – an invite that served as a reminder that Olympic officials banned Russia as a government, and Putin personally, from attending.
The government of the sovereign state of Taiwan issued remarks this week asserting that it “respects” the decision by President Joe Biden not to send politicians to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and would consider a similar move, but suggested that a boycott of the event is not on the table.
CNN “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper on Sunday sounded off on Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai, whose safety and welfare have been in question since accusing Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of raping her in 2019.
Several renowned tennis players, including women’s tennis legend Martina Navratilova, sternly criticized the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) men’s tennis league on Thursday for refusing to join the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) in boycotting China over the mistreatment of tennis star Peng Shuai after she accused a top Communist Party official of rape.
Chinese state media and the Chinese Tennis Association (CTA) responded with outrage on Thursday to the international Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) suspending all tournaments in China over the mistreatment of Peng Shuai, the tennis star who accused former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of sexually assaulting her a decade ago.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday railed against the worldwide movement to boycott the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics over China’s human rights abuses, denouncing the effort as “selfish” and “ultimately harmful.”
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) again defended China on Thursday over the ongoing disappearance of tennis champion Peng Shuai, claiming that she appeared “safe … given the difficult situation” in a video call following her accusation of rape against a top Chinese Communist Party official.
The saga of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai, who disappeared after accusing former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of raping her prior to a consensual affair and may still be under duress from the Communist regime, took another turn on Wednesday with revelations that Zhang had a leadership role in setting up the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
![Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli (R), also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, meets with Thomas Bach, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, in Beijing, capital of China, June 12, 2016.[Photo/Xinhua]](https://media.breitbart.com/media/2021/11/64wires_1465730838106-420x315.jpg)
The Chinese Foreign Ministry finally commented Tuesday on the case of tennis star Peng Shuai, who disappeared after making bombshell rape allegations against a senior Chinese Communist Party official.
The Chinese Communist Party flooded social media this weekend with images of Peng Shuai, a tennis champion who disappeared after accusing a senior communist of raping her, insisting she was neither missing nor in danger.
