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The woke NBCUniversal broadcasted a woke Olympics Opening Ceremony on Friday, and the verdict is in: the display was “depressing as hell,” a Daily Beast headline screamed.

Football legend Herschel Walker recently sounded off about Olympians protesting the American flag and kneeling prior to games.

The first day of the Tokyo Olympics is wrapping up, and despite several near-misses, Team USA did not medal for the first time since the 1972 Summer Games.

Eddy Alvarez, a first-generation Cuban American and Team USA baseball player, teared up talking about the honor of being selected as flag-bearer.

SAPPORO, Japan (AP) – Ellen White scored her third goal in two games at the Olympics, heading Britain to a 1-0 victory over Japan on Saturday and earning a place in the women’s soccer quarterfinals.

The German female gymnastics team at the Tokyo Olympics debuted full-body unitards this week in a protest against the sexualization of their sport.

All signs, including polls, point to humiliating ratings for the Woketard Olympics on NBC.

Tokyo Olympic organizers are scrambling to clean the local Odaiba Marine Park before its use as an official Olympic venue starting July 26 after local residents and Olympic athletes complained this week the park and its surrounding bay emit a “foul odor,” Australia’s Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.

Rhys McClenaghan, an Irish Olympic gymnast, debunked the internet-fueled theory that athletes would be sleeping on cardboard beds that easily break under pressure to discourage sexual activity.

Strained relations between South Korea and Japan took another hit on Monday when South Korean President Moon Jae-in canceled his visit to the Tokyo Olympics and a planned meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide because a Japanese diplomat made “unacceptable” remarks comparing Moon’s diplomatic outreach to masturbation.

The 2021 Olympic Games iJapann are historic not for sport but over the controversy of biological men competing against biological women.

Athletes should avoid “divisive” political statements during the Tokyo Olympics, the president of the International Olympic Committee said.

(AP) — The British women’s soccer team will take a knee before kickoff at the Tokyo Olympics.

Protesters in Cuba and Hong Kong appear to have a greater affection for the American flag than some of the nation’s Olympic athletes, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said Monday.

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.”

Seth Rogen — who spent over a decade starring in and propping up Hollywood’s stoner movie genre with Knocked Up (2007), Pineapple Express (2008),  Neighbors (2014 and it’s 2017 sequel), and most recently Long Shot (2019) — accused the U.S. Olympic Committee of racism for suspending runner Sha’Carri Richardson after she tested positive for marijuana.

Hollywood actor and former WWE professional wrestler Dave Bautista criticized Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) after he went after U.S. Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry for turning away from the American flag during the national anthem, calling him a “huge fucking twat.”

USA Basketball director Jerry Colangelo said it is unlikely that LeBron James will ever play for Team USA at the Olympics again.

Joy Behar told her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that hammer thrower Gwen Berry was just doing her patriotic duty when she protested the flag and the national anthem at the U.S. Olympics trials over the weekend.

Frank Gaffney likened the 2022 Winter Olympics scheduled to be held in Beijing, China, to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany,

A majority of Americans are against women having to compete against biological men in athletics, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Friday found.

ESPN Jalen Rose claims that Team USA only included a white player to avoid having to send an all-black team to the Olympics.

According to reports, transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard kept a minority woman from making her Olympic debut.

Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre said it is not fair for a male weightlifter to compete against women at the summer Olympics.

A transgender BMX freestyle rider and U.S. Olympic team alternate once allegedly made remarks about exploding the head of a President with dynamite, according to a report. 

Former British Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies took to social media Monday to criticize the International Olympic Committee for allowing a biological male to compete against women in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics.

A transgender BMX freestyle rider and U.S. Olympic team alternate once said that his goal was to win the Olympics so he could burn the American flag on the podium.

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.

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy on Monday formally laid out a plan to hold the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) accountable for the coronavirus pandemic, a “roadmap” that includes eight steps Congress can take to do so.

Shelby Houlihan, a U.S. track and field athlete and Olympic hopeful, blames a burrito for a positive steroid test that led to her receiving a four-year ban.

The Human Rights Campaign is suing Florida Gov. DeSantis for signing into law legislation to protect female athletes from trans competition.

An Australian female swimmer has ended her Olympic pursuits to teach a lesson to the “misogynistic perverts she claims are “exploiting” her.

Transgender activists said it is fair for transgender “women” to compete against biological women and claims otherwise are “overblown.”

Panelists and lawmakers at a House hearing urged a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China because of human rights abuses.

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), an international organization headquartered in Germany, on Tuesday released the 2020 edition of its annual Human Rights Report. The WUC described its report as “a detailed review of China’s egregious crimes against the Uyghurs and other Turkic people.”