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Athlete gets to compete at Olympics despite positive Covid-19 test

Australia’s Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt will be able to compete in the curling mixed double tournament at the Winter…

2 years ago

Ministry of Defense of Ukraine to meet athlete & armed forces sergeant after she hugged Russian rival who beat her to Olympic gold

Bronze medalist Yaroslava Mahuchikh was involved in emotional scenes after beating beaten by champion Mariya Lasitskene at the Olympic Games, with…

3 years ago

Disaffected Belarusian Olympic athlete Timanovskaya granted urgent visa by Poland after refusing to fly home under duress

The confirmation that she was given a visa was published on Twitter by Polish Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Marcin…

3 years ago

Belarusian athlete Timanovskaya ‘safe & secure’ in Tokyo after refusing to fly home as Polish & Czech officials offer help

Timanovskaya, 24, had sought police protection at Haneda airport on Sunday after being booked onto a flight by Belarusian team officials.The…

3 years ago

‘I am worried about my safety’: Athlete fears she will go to jail if she returns to Belarus, could seek asylum in Germany, Austria

Runner Timanovskaya was preparing to run in the 200m at the Games on Monday when she was abruptly told she…

3 years ago

Wayne Dupree: I used to patriotically support every American athlete at the Olympics, now I actively hope they lose

When I was a kid watching the Olympics, if one of our athletes or teams lost to the Soviet Union…

3 years ago

Non-binary women’s footballer who is first openly trans athlete at Olympic Games says they feel ‘proud’ but ‘aware of realities’

Hugely experienced international Quinn came out as transgender in a move they described as "hard and kind of bullsh*t" last…

3 years ago

Algerian judo athlete withdraws from Olympics to avoid possible match with Israeli, says he won’t ‘get his hands dirty’

Fethi Nourine, the gold medal winner in this year’s African Judo Championships, withdrew from the Olympics after seeing that the…

3 years ago

A new book explains why the first transgender athlete to compete against women at the Olympics has wired-in, unfair advantages

The Tokyo Olympics get underway this week but the women’s weightlifting competition is already mired in controversy. Laurel Hubbard will…

3 years ago

‘World’s sexiest athlete’ Alica Schmidt says ‘Tokyo is calling’ as German track stunner reveals joy at Olympics selection (PHOTOS)

“TOKYO IS CALLING – I‘m going to the Olympics!” wrote the overjoyed 400m specialist to her 1.7 million Instagram followers…

3 years ago