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At least nine trans individuals — seven biological men and two biological women — are hoping to compete at the Olympics in July in Tokyo.

A union of Japanese hospital doctors on Wednesday urged Tokyo to cancel its upcoming Summer Olympic Games, slated to begin on July 23, warning it would be “impossible” to stage the event safely amid the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

(AFP) — Australian basketball’s longest-running feud flared again Wednesday when former NBA star Andrew Bogut took aim at women’s Olympic stalwart Liz Cambage over her accusations team photos had been “whitewashed”.

Caitlyn Jenner, a transgender woman and a California gubernatorial candidate, said she wants to give illegal aliens a pathway to citizenship.

A man who goes by the name Laurel Hubbard could be the first transgender woman to compete in the Olympics this summer in Japan.

Two new bills in Ohio would require students to participate in sports corresponding with their birth gender.

The NCAA is threatening to boycott states attempting to protect female athletes from transgender competition, including Oklahoma.

The Brazilian Olympic Committee ordered all members of its Olympic delegation to undergo 30 hours of “anti-racism” training before departing for the Tokyo Games this summer.

Chinese officials and state media on Wednesday warned the Biden administration not to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics over human-rights complaints, claiming that such a boycott would “damage the spirit of the Olympic Charter” and inflict severe economic and political damage on the weakened United States.

Mike Pompeo urged Americans to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics to be held in Beijing, China, calling them the “Genocide Olympics.

China’s government warned against the idea, threatening a “robust Chinese response” if the United States decided to boycott the Olympics.

According to the State Department, the United States is considering joining the boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic games as the Biden Administration is working to organize an international pushback on China.

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.

Human rights groups are pressuring Airbnb to drop its sponsorship of the Beijing Olympics due to China’s oppression of the Uyghur population

On Friday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) said she supports boycotting the 2022 Olympics in China. Cheney said, “I remember when we boycotted the Olympics, I guess it was the 1980 Olympics. And it’s terrible

The Chinese Olympic Committee will provide Chinese coronavirus vaccines to athletes participating in the postponed Tokyo 2020 Summer Games, slated for July, and the Beijing 2022 Winter Games.

A little over a month after the head of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee resigned over sexist remarks, the creative director for the event announced he would resign after suggesting a plus-sized female comedian should perform at the Games as a character he dubbed the “Olympig.”

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper attacked American Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Wednesday as “shallow” and lacking “perspective” for their comments on the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, a bizarre attack given both senators opposed boycotting the event.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wrote a Fox News op-ed Monday morning titled “Don’t boycott China Olympics — US tried this before and here’s who was hurt the most,” arguing Americans would only hurt themselves by boycotting the Beijing Olympics.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan will not take part in China’s offer — accepted by the International Olympic Committee — to provide vaccines for “participants” in the postponed Tokyo Games and next year’s Beijing Winter Games.

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), a human rights and advocacy organization for the ethnic group, has asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s ethics commission chair to review its call for the 2022 Winter Games not to be held in Beijing, China, citing allegations of “crimes against humanity” by China against Uyghurs.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stated that he opposes boycotting the 2022 Olympics because “hurting American athletes is a policy of weakness.” And that the U.S. “should go over there, call

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Thursday that no final decision has been made about boycotting the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing over China’s human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslims of Xinjiang province.

Former USA Gymnastics coach John Geddert has been charged on Thursday with 24 counts of criminal misconduct, including human trafficking and sexual assault, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced.

Citizens for the Republic said the U.S. should boycott the 2022 Olympics in China because of the Communist Chinese’s human rights abuses.

Olympic medalist and U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame member Peter Oppegard allegedly bit a female figure skater on the arm during a 2013 training session, USA Today reported Thursday. 

Allowing the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics to occur unchallenged will inspire a genocidal regime to escalate its violence against ethnic minorities, Hidetoshi Ishii, the vice president of the Free Indo-Pacific Alliance, told Breitbart News this week.

China’s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper threatened other states considering a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics with “fierce” retaliation on the part of the Communist Party in a column published Sunday.

A coalition of human rights advocates representing groups repressed by the Chinese Communist Party — including members of the Tibetan, Uyghur, Inner Mongolian, and Hong Kong communities — issued a call Thursday for the world to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, set to take place in Beijing.

TOKYO — Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, said Thursday he would not resign despite pressure on him to do so after he made derogatory comments about women earlier in the week.

Tokyo’s hosting of the next Olympic Games this summer is “up to the U.S.,” a Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee member said on Wednesday.

Florida has offered to step in and host the 2021 Olympics if Tokyo, Japan, backs out over pandemic fears.

TOKYO (AP) — More than 80% of people in Japan who were surveyed in two polls in the last few days say the Tokyo Olympics should be canceled or postponed, or say they believe the Olympics will not take place.

Japan’s digital transformation minister, Hirai Takuya, announced in an interview Sunday that Tokyo is developing a “monitoring system” to keep close surveillance on foreigners visiting the country, allegedly to contain the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

GENEVA (AP) — Russia was banned Thursday from using it’s name, flag and anthem at the next two Olympics or at any world championships for the next two years.

Japanese Prime Minster Suga Yoshihide said on Thursday that the Summer Olympics in 2021 may be a “good opportunity” to discuss important matters, including a peace deal, with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. He did not confirm Kim would receive an invite, nor did he rule it out.