Olympics

The woke, low-ratings Tokyo Olympics may be followed by an even woker games in 2024, with organisers already emphasising inclusivity and gender politics.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ripped the immigration policy of the Biden administration in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News in Franklin, Tennessee on Saturday.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

NBC’s Saturday night telecast of the 2021 Woke Olympics hit the lowest number on record,

Belarusian athletes Yana Maksimava and Andrey Krauchanka, a married couple currently living in Germany, announced on Tuesday they will not return to their home country. “You can lose not just your freedom but your life,” Maksimava said of the Russia-backed tyranny in Belarus on her Instagram account.

At the Olympics, a reporter was met with awkward silence when he asked the woman’s Olympic weightlifting medalist at the podium about Laurel Hubbard’s participation in the Tokyo Olympic Games. 

Not even USA winning the gold for all-around gymnastics lifted the ratings for the 2020 Woke Olympics anywhere close to respectable territory.

Gwen Berry, a U.S. Olympic hammer thrower who turned away from the American flag during the playing of the national anthem, failed to medal during finals on Tuesday.

U.S. gymnastics star Simone Biles returned to the Olympic Games on Tuesday, saying “I did it for me” as she claimed bronze in the beam final.

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) announced Monday the woke Team USA Olympic shot putter, Raven Saunders, did not violate any rules when putting her arms over her head in the form of an “X” while on the podium receiving her medal during the Tokyo Olympics Games.

John Ratcliffe, former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) during the Trump administration, wrote in an op-ed Monday that the notion of the coronavirus escaping from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is “very close to a certainty.”

New Zealand transexual weightlifter Laurel hubbard failed to record a single successful lift in the women’s +87kg weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday morning, crashing out of the competition in the process.

There will be no gold medal chance for the U.S. women’s soccer team at the Tokyo Olympics after they went down to Canada early Monday morning.

A little over a week after stepping away from the Tokyo Olympics to focus on her mental health, Simone Biles announced Monday she is now sufficiently composed for a return to competition.

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.

Raven Saunders, Team USA’s shot putter, also known as the “The Hulk,” was pictured with her arms raised over her head in the form of an “X” while on the podium receiving her medal during the Tokyo Olympics Games.

When the U.S. women’s soccer team takes on Canada for the Tokyo 2020 semifinals on Monday, they will play against the first transgender Olympian in history.

Another day, another withdrawal. American gymnast Simone Biles announced Sunday she will not defend her Olympic gold medal on floor exercise.

TOKYO (AP) – Aidan Walsh has been forced out of his semifinal bout at the Tokyo Olympics after the Irish welterweight injured his ankle while celebrating his quarterfinal victory.

Silent stadiums and lack of fans at the Tokyo Olympics are leaving Megan Rapinoe underwhelmed, the U.S. women’s soccer captain confessed Saturday.

TOKYO (AP) – Israel has won a bronze medal in the Olympic debut of mixed team judo, shocking the Russian team in the medal bout.