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Nine members of a Cuban national baseball team defected to Mexico in recent days while in the country to compete in an international tournament, the Associated Press (AP) reported Monday.

Dozens of players from Afghanistan’s junior national women’s soccer team successfully fled Afghanistan and arrived in neighboring Pakistan on Wednesday, with more of their fellow teammates due to arrive on Thursday, Reuters reported.

A poll found most voters in West Virginia think athletes should participate in sports according to their biological sex not “gender identity.”

One hardcore American college football fan was caught on live television scarfing an entire jar of Duke’s Mayonnaise.

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.

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.

Israeli artistic gymnast Artem Dolgopyat made history on Sunday by winning an Olympic gold medal — Israel’s second ever — in the men’s artistic gymnastics floor exercise competition at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Olympic athletes competing in outdoor games have become increasingly vocal in their protests that Tokyo’s summer heat is a threat to their health, prompting tennis to reconfigure its schedule on Wednesday to the evenings to keep players out of the sun.

Hidilyn Diaz won the Philippines’ first-ever Olympic gold medal for weightlifting on Monday, earning her an additional cash prize of $600,000 from the Philippine government and private companies, along with a new home, the Manila Bulletin reported on Tuesday.

One-in-three Democrat voters favor letting transgender men enter womens’ Olympics sports, according to a poll by Axios.

Just days after Labour said it would “absolutely” oppose proof of vaccination to enter large venues like nightclubs, party leader Keir Starmer has suggested he could back vaccine passports and proof of a negative coronavirus test result for entry to sports stadiums.

Empty seats, zero atmosphere, diminished team numbers, local protests and a world distracted by coronavirus all combined to deliver just 16.7 million viewers for NBC’s four-hour long broadcast of the Tokyo Olympic Games opening ceremony on Friday. It was the smallest U.S. television audience for the event in the past 33 years.

Diane Abbott and a group of leftist protesters “took the knee” outside of Downing Street on in “solidarity” with black British footballers.

A petition challenging the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) transgender policy and calling for the exclusion of New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard from competing in Tokyo later this month is building with more than 21,000 signatures already added.

Tokyo Olympic organisers on Wednesday unveiled a raft of tough new rules for spectators at the coronavirus-delayed Games, warning alcohol, hugs, cheers, and autographs have all been banned. Polite clapping is allowed but only under strict supervision.

Arizona State University’s poll on transgender sports competition found a majority of Americans are opposed to men competing against women.

An AP-NORC poll released Friday had found a strong number of Americans who said they would return doing some activities they stopped during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

The Broward School Board members have said they do not support the new state law that protects female athletes from competing against males.

The Swedish Athletics Association is looking to make sports in Sweden more inclusive for young transgendered individuals by making it easier for them to choose which gender they want to compete with.

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

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

Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics revealed on Wednesday that roughly 10,000 volunteers have withdrawn from the Summer Games, which are slated to begin on July 23.

The NCAA is getting slammed for holding tournaments in states that have laws that require people to play sports based on their bio sex.

United Airlines said Monday that members of its MileagePlus program who have been vaccinated may enter a contest to win free flights.

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

Sharron Davies, a past Olympic swimmer, is speaking out against a transgender woman poised to compete in the Tokyo Olympics this summer.

Biden’s DOJ and activists are threatening to sue states that have put laws in place to protect female athletes from transgender competition.

The majority of Georgia voters oppose Major League Baseball’s (MLB) decision to pull the All-Star Game from Atlanta.

Attorneys argued before a three-judge panel on Monday in a lawsuit challenging a law to protect female athletes from transgender competition.

The International Olympic Committee announced it will keep a rule that forbids any protest at venues, including at the Summer Games in Tokyo.

Democrat Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced Monday on social media that he will veto the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act.

Lawmakers in Florida could reject a bill that would put in place a law to protect female athletes from competing against biological men.

Tens of millions of Americans coordinating a counter-boycott of corporate leftism “would have a profound effect,” Victor Davis Hanson stated.

Texas is one of more than two dozen states with proposed legislation to protect female athletes from transgender competition as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) threatens to remove sporting events from states if these bills become law. As Breitbart

The cast of the CW network series “Supergirl” are outraged over the Arkansas legislature overriding Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s (R) veto of a measure banning transgender drugs and surgery for minors, describing it as “sickening” and concluding the move will “hurt kids.”

A new Axios-Ipsos poll shows that there is a deepening racial divide on politics and use of Native American names in sports.