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BATON ROUGE - Coming off of a national championship title win, the LSU gymnastics team kicked off the celebration with a shift at the original Raising Cane's location.Upon arriving on Tuesday morning, the team was greeted by fans with pompoms, who were lined up outside of the restaurant waiting to be served. The team started their shift by signing autographs and taking photos with fans and each other, then sat down with Cane's founder, Todd Graves, for a chat. "I left my purse at Cane's...
Iconic or historic venues are at the heart of the Paris Olympics — organizers want the event to be about the spectacle as well as the sports.
Twenty-three Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned drug before the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 the World Anti-Doping Agency confirmed Saturday, defending the decision to let them compete based on China’s findings they had ingested it unknowingly. The New York Times and German broadcaster ARD reported Saturday that the athletes included nearly half of the […]
On the latest episode of the 'Call Her Daddy' podcast, Simone Biles said she thought she was going to be 'banned from America' after her failed vault during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Simone Biles has revealed that she thought “the world is going to hate me” after withdrawing from the gymnastics team event at the Tokyo Olympics. In an interview with the Call Her Daddy podcast released on Wednesday, Biles spoke about how she was affected by “the twisties” during the Games, which causes a gymnast to lose track of where their body is and how it moves through the air. The four-time Olympic gold medalist was replaced by Jordan Chiles in the team event and later explained that she...
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The world’s top anti-doping regulator says after reviewing a documentary and other media reports that it stands by the results of its decision to clear 23 Chinese swimmers to compete at the Tokyo Olympics despite testing positive for a banned heart medication
WADA stands by decision to clear Chinese swimmers for Tokyo Olympics citing contaminated samples
MONTREAL (AP) — The world’s top anti-doping regulator says after reviewing a documentary and other media reports that it stands by the results of its decision to clear 23 Chinese swimmers to compete at the Tokyo Olympics despite testing positive for a banned heart medication. The World Anti-Doping Agency issued a statement Sunday following the
Simone Biles, among the most recognizable U.S. Olympic athletes, opened up in a recent interview about the pressure she faced going into the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and how a bad bout of the "twisties" contributed to her eventually withdrawing from competition. Biles explained during Wednesday’s episode of the "Call Her Daddy" podcast that she was suffering from the "twisties," a term in gymnastics that generally refers to as a "disconnect between the mind and body," long before her infamous vault...
Marius Hamelot recalls his fine April morning at the inauguration of the Olympic Aquatics Centre chatting to President Emmanuel Macron as well as a phalanx of politicians and Paris Olympics officials