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Advocacy groups are calling for the heads of two international handball governing federations to step down due to “blatant sexism” after the women’s Norwegian beach handball team was fined for wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms at the European championships in July.

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.

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.”

KAMIYOGA, Japan (AP) — Equestrian jumpers aren’t keen on surprises. Neither are the horses, and it takes years of training to keep them from getting spooked.

Silver medal-winning U.S. shot putter Raven Saunders reached skywards and crossed her arms in an “X” above her head Sunday in self-proclaimed support of all “oppressed peoples” as she posed for trackside photographers. Less than 24-hours later the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it is looking into the display.

Olympic medical and science director Dr. Richard Budgett claimed that the science is settled and “everyone agrees that trans women are women”

Laurel Hubbard, the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics, thanked the IOC for making the Games “inclusive.”

Pop singer Pink offered to pay the fines for the Norwegian female beach handball team after they wore shorts in defiance of a league rule requiring the ladies to wear bikini bottoms during games.

The Olympics omitted Taiwan’s national flag icon on its tweet celebrating the medal winners in Judo on its official 2020 Tweet Saturday.

The woke 2021 Tokyo Olympics is facing a tropical typhoon headed its way with torrential rain and 56 mph winds.

Olympics organizers in Japan seem poised to lose as much as $3 billion on the 2021 Olympic Games this year.

TOKYO (AP) — Belated and beleaguered, the virus-delayed Tokyo Summer Olympics finally opened Friday night with cascading fireworks and made-for-TV choreography that unfolded in a near-empty stadium, a colorful but strangely subdued ceremony that set a striking tone to match a unique pandemic Games.

Human rights groups joined Olympians past and present Thursday to demand athletes at the Tokyo Games be allowed to mount political protests on the medal stand.

The media company started by L.A. Lakers star LeBron James is blasting the ban on political protests on the medal stand during the Olympics.

TOKYO (AP) — Toyota won’t be airing any Olympic-themed advertisements on Japanese television during the Tokyo Games despite being one of the IOC’s top corporate sponsors.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has cleared the way Saturday for New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, a man competing as a woman, to participate in the Tokyo Olympics.

TOKYO — Fans are banned from the Tokyo Olympics following a state of emergency aimed at containing rising coronavirus infections in the capital.

New Zealand weightlifter Tracey Lambrechs alleges that her country’s weightlifting authorities attempted to silence her over her criticism of trans weightlifter Laurel Hubbard.

Atlantic writer and former ESPN host Jemele Hill insisted on Sunday that Olympic rules tend to “disproportionately” hurt “athletes of color.”

U.S. hammer thrower Gwen Berry had no problem snubbing the flag and anthem at the Olympic qualifiers, but doesn’t sound nearly as committed to protest at the Olympic games themselves.

On Friday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) quietly modified its rule prohibiting athletes from making political statements during the Olympics.

Reactions are piling up after it was reported that Laurel Hubbard, a male who identifies as a woman, will compete as a female in Tokyo.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that Laurel Hubbard, a male who identifies as a woman, will become the first trans athlete to compete in the Olympics.

Florida Senator Rick Scott says that CBS should demand that the International Olympic Committee remove the 2022 Olympic Games from China.

Japan has been “cornered” into holding the Tokyo Olympic Games amid the ravages of the global coronavirus pandemic, one of the country’s best-known Olympians and executive member of the Japanese Olympic Committee alleged Friday.

Belgian Olympic weightlifter Anna Vanbellinghen, who was born a woman, is blasting the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allowing a transgender athlete born a man to compete as a woman in the coming world games in Tokyo. The IOC has

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper on Wednesday called for the Tokyo Olympics to be canceled with the games set to open in less than two months.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is drawing equal measures of anger and rebuke in Japan after senior officials told organizers of the delayed Tokyo Olympics the games should proceed.

TOKYO — The IOC vice president in charge of the postponed Tokyo Olympics said Friday that the Games would open in just over two months even if the city and other parts of Japan were under a state of emergency because of rising COVID-19 cases.

TOKYO (AP) — An online petition with more than 350,000 signatures calling for the Tokyo Games to be canceled was submitted Friday to local organizers, the International Olympic Committee and others.

Olympics athletes will not be allowed to wear “Black Lives Matter” apparel during the games and ceremonies in Tokyo.

GENEVA (AP) — Athletes who make political or social justice protests at the Tokyo Olympics were promised legal support Thursday by a global union and an activist group in Germany.

TOKYO (AP) — The head of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday was again forced to assure the world that the postponed games will open in just over three months and not be canceled despite surging COVID-19 cases in Japan.

BEIJING (AP) — China’s government warned Washington on Wednesday not to boycott next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing after the Biden administration said it was talking with allies about a joint approach to complaints of human rights abuses.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea became the first country to drop out of the Tokyo Olympics because of coronavirus fears, a decision that underscores the challenges facing Japan as it struggles to stage a global sporting event amid a raging pandemic.

SALT LAKE CITY — A gold medalist in sledding at the 2002 Winter Olympics has been charged with sexual abuse of a child in Utah, authorities said.