The decision to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics deprived hundreds of athletes of their once-in-a-lifetime chance at glory, a ...
Jimmy Carter's call for an Olympic boycott weighed heavily on him for more than four decades. It was a Cold War power play ...
Abbie Stockard, a 22-year-old nursing student and cheerleader at Alabama’s Auburn University, beat 51 other contestants to be ...
Sending a delegate to the Winter Olympics is not new for a tropical country like the Philippines. The country has competed in six editions of the Winter Games already, and another sport is eyeing to ...
The Olympic Games’ challenge of cutting travel ... for almost a third of the Games’ total emissions, while US travellers alone contributed almost 17 per cent. Grenon attributed the ...
Nick Mead can’t quite locate the right word. Maybe “sheepish” will do.
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“This would allow us to deliver a high-performance program to ensure we can develop athletes.” The newly-elected LNP government’s choice of main stadium for the Brisbane Olympics could ...
The 17-year-old won her second gold medal and set an Olympic record in the women's 200 ... 1932 World Series sells at auction for more than US$24,000,000. Heritage Auctions says an anonymous ...
The incumbent South Korean Olympic chief Lee Kee-heung announced Monday he will run for a third term, while rejecting misconduct allegations leveled against him by the government that led to his ...
The boycott garnered more than two-thirds support from the 2,400 members of the unwieldy U.S. Olympic Committee house of delegates, the governing body that made the official move to keep the ...