A new Covid-19 vaccination campaign began in France on Monday, with elderly and vulnerable people encouraged to get a booster shot before the start of the Paris Olympic Games.
The meet to determine which wrestlers will represent the United States at
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 […]
Even for a building known for its volume, Madison Square Garden got loud for Game 2 of the New York Knicks' opening-round series with the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday night.
Chinese swimmers recorded 23 positive drug tests but were let off with no bans. Among them was Wang Shun, who beat Duncan Scott to the 200m medley title. The United States Anti-Doping Agency issued a scathing attack on the WADA
World Athletics' decision to award prize money at the Paris Olympics goes against the Olympic spirit, says the head of cycling's governing body.
Billed as a rival to the Olympic Games, the Enhanced Games, set to take place in 2025, is a sporting event with a difference; athletes will be allowed to dope. Ian Sample talks to chief sports writer Barney Ronay about where the idea came from and how it’s being sold as an anti-establishment underdog, and to Dr Peter Angell about what these usually banned substances are, and what they could do to athletes’ bodiesRead Barney Ronay’s opinion piece on the Enhanced Games Continue reading
he conventional wisdom in the United States is that Iran has conducted a “blatant and powerful act of direct war” against Israel. However, the Iranian attack has been a long time coming in view of the past ten years of Israel’s cyberwar against Iran; the assassination of senior Iranian nuclear scientists on Iranian territory; and the killing of at least 18 Iranian generals and military commanders. The drone and missile attack on April 13th was carefully calibrated to target the Nevatim air...
Faster. Higher. Stronger. Floatier? As times have changed, so, too, has the Olympic program. When Paris first hosted in 1900, croquet and tug-of-war were featured (that was croquet’s only Olympics appearance, while tug-of-war was featured five more times until the Games in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1920). Contests of all kinds have come and gone and sometimes returned over the years — a trend that will continue thanks to the International Olympic Committee’s allowing host countries to nominate...
America can’t move on from what happened during the mass government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. That was the message Tuesday at a House Judiciary Read More
They compete for a trophy, a ring, the chance to be called a champion and, sometimes, a place in history. Most of the world's best athletes in all sorts of sports compete for cold, hard cash, too. After more than 100 years of striving to earn Olympic gold — but
Athletes in plenty of sports compete for plenty of cash. Olympians? Not so much. The International Olympic Committee has always resisted that sort of thing.