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The Ohio GOP would like to ‘inspect’ your daughters’ genitals

Ohio’s ban on trans youth in sports is the epitome of the conservative culture war on the LGBTQ community. Their obsession has reached pathological levels. Last week, Ohio’s Republican-dominated House approved a bill requiring genital inspections to prevent transgender female athletes from competing...

by DJ Dunson|the Olympics

|Mon Jun 06 2022

The International Gymnastics Federation will break you… eventually

The ability of the sports world to churn on through societal decay is dismaying or courageous depending on how you frame it. Oscillating between the stoicism of the Ukrainian national team playing through an invasion, and Black athletes being asked to perform in front of white people a day after a r...

by Sean Beckwith|Gymnastics

|Wed May 18 2022

Coed sports can be a thing

For all the energy devoted to the Lia Thomas story, you’d think there was an army of transitioning athletes looking to snatch Division I titles from the women who rightfully won them. Laws have been written, passed, vetoed and passed again to prevent people assigned one sex at birth from competing w...

by Jane McManus|Sports

|Tue Mar 29 2022

Whew… we need to talk about the Russian gymnasts

This morning, I woke up to the sight of a river of people, from the elderly down to the babies carried in their parents’ arms, trying to escape Ukraine. I watched my TV in horror as they slipped and slid uphill, some of them falling, wondering if they were going to get back up again. Behind them, a ...

by Julie DiCaro|Vladimir Putin

|Mon Mar 07 2022

Biathlete Yevhen Malyshev killed defending Ukraine

Nineteen-year-old Ukranian biathlete Yevhen Malyshev was killed in action on Tuesday while fighting for the Ukrainian military against the ongoing Russian military invasion. His death was confirmed Wednesday by the International Biathlon Union, who wrote, “Above all, the IBU expresses its deepest co...

by Grace McDermott|Yevhen Malyshev

|Fri Mar 04 2022

Not all Olympians are apoplectic over the Beijing Games

I tried. I tried to focus on the competitions and athletes at the Olympics instead of wallowing in the politics, conditions, and COVID of it all. No longer. I can’t take it anymore. The men’s skiing halfpipe final was more scary to watch than it was fun because gale-force winds (probably an exaggera...

by Sean Beckwith|the Beijing Games

|Sat Feb 19 2022

Kamila Valieva was just a figurine in a Game among nations

What a farce the International Olympic Committee has made of the Games this year. By not installing real sanctions against Russia for institutionalizing a surreptitious doping program in Sochi, and by not barring an athlete who tested positive for a banned substance, we were witness to the oddest of...

by Jane McManus|Kamila Valieva

|Fri Feb 18 2022

Debacle on ice: Olympics women’s figure skating was the opposite of heartwarming

The scene after the end of the women’s free skate was hard to watch Thursday — tears, screaming, and heartbreak pouring from the Russian athletes expected to sweep the podium, their Olympic experience destroyed by a doping scandal involving the country’s 15-year-old star, Kamila Valieva....

by Grace McDermott|Olympics

|Fri Feb 18 2022

Mikaela Shiffrin’s response to failure is more important than failing

When I’m left sifting through the rubble, struggling to find any remnant of hope in the disaster that has befallen me, I try to remember advice my father never stops giving me: “You can’t control the things that happen to you, but you can control how you react to them.”...

by Sean Beckwith|Mikaela Shiffrin

|Thu Feb 17 2022

Never a silver lining in this rivalry

Talk your shit, Natalie Spooner. ...

by Jesse Spector|Hannah Brandt

|Thu Feb 17 2022

Funny how the little white girl who skates got treated differently than the fast Black girl who sprints

Unsurprisingly, Emmanuel Acho doesn’t have anything to say. ...

by Carron J. Phillips|Sports

|Tue Feb 15 2022

Kamila Valieva’s saga sets a dangerous precedent for skaters

It wouldn’t be a proper Winter Olympics without a figure skating melodrama. It’s earned a reputation as the Olympics’ closest equivalent to soap opera. In 2002, a judge cheating scandal led to a reform of the entire scoring system. Tonya Harding’s sabotage of Nancy Kerrigan before the ‘92 Olympics a...

by DJ Dunson|Kamila Valieva

|Mon Feb 14 2022

This was not Miracle on Ice

Fact, an American team primarily made up of NCAA players took down a veteran Canadian team 4-2 in the preliminary round of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing late Friday night. ...

by Eric Blum|Miracle on Ice

|Sat Feb 12 2022

Longtime Team USA snowboard coach under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct

You can add “Sexual misconduct allegations against a U.S. coach” to the list of off-the-slopes issues overshadowing the on-snow and -ice accomplishments at the Winter Olympics. In a series of Instagram posts Friday, former U.S. snowboard cross athlete Callan Chythlook-Sifsof alleged current U.S. sno...

by Sean Beckwith|U.S. Snowboarding

|Sat Feb 12 2022

No NHL stars, but plenty of drama for Team USA men's hockey

It’s obvious that the inclusion of the NHL at the 2022 Winter Olympics would’ve given a facelift to the United States men’s hockey roster competing in Beijing. Leaving Auston Matthews, Connor Hellebuyck and plenty of others at home takes away some of the best in the world. The Americans are far from...

by Eric Blum|NHL

|Fri Feb 11 2022

In a surprise to no one, Russian Olympic team in another doping scandal

Only seven years after a comprehensive Russian state-sponsored doping program was discovered, and two years after Russia was consequently sanctioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, the Russian Olympic Committee’s 15-year-old star skater Kamila Valieva has tested positive for a banned substance, pos...

by Grace McDermott|World Anti-Doping Agency

|Thu Feb 10 2022

Mikaela Shiffrin doesn’t have to look too far for a tale of redemption

When Mikaela Shiffrin skied out of her second event at the Winter Olympics on Tuesday night, it was shocking. She’s been the face of U.S. Olympic coverage, including my coverage, and not only did she fail to medal in her first two races, she failed to even finish a run. ...

by Sean Beckwith|Mikaela Shiffrin

|Thu Feb 10 2022

Nathan Chen deserves every second of the Olympic spotlight he’s about to get

The Winter Olympics are always sports’ most unique event. For the most part, it’s a collection of niche sports getting international attention all at once. Exceptions have existed with men’s ice hockey, with five straight Olympiads allowing the NHL’s stars to participate for their countries, last ta...

by Eric Blum|Nathan Chen

|Tue Feb 08 2022

Don’t look at us, China, you asked for this

Hosting an Olympics of any kind is like when it’s your turn to host a house party after you turn 30. Yes, we all like social gatherings and it’s fun seeing everyone, but I have to spend money to feed people who dirty shit up, judge my house, complain about the free food, and then leave a mess for me...

by Sean Beckwith|the Olympics

|Tue Feb 08 2022

America’s Olympic biathlon podium drought continues

The US came extremely close to a podium spot in the only Winter Olympic discipline they’ve never medaled in: The biathlon. I’m not an expert on the sport, I’m only pretending to be after watching a couple hours of competition, but when I heard the announcers say we’ve never even medaled in the biath...

by Sean Beckwith|Biathlon

|Sun Feb 06 2022

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