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Eileen Gu: Navigating two cultures, judged by both of them

James Porteous 17 February 2022 0 Comment

Unlike the recent ‘stories’ about the tennis player and the figure skater, Ms Gu is thankfully in a position to speak out against the West’s quasi-political media obsession with these young, female athletes. Photo:...

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Simone Biles and the problem with ‘self-care’

James Porteous 15 August 2021 0 Comment

Photo: Getty The Olympics showed us how out of fashion resilience has become. 09 August 2021 | REBEKAH WANIC AND NINA POWELL | Spiked As in Olympics past, Tokyo 2020 has had its fair...

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Syria: Displaced children hold their own ‘Tent Olympics’

James Porteous 10 August 2021 0 Comment

Children from 12 camps in northwest Syria mark the end of the Tokyo Olympics with their own competition 09 August 2021 | Ali Haj Suleiman | Middle East Eye Displaced children from camps across...

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Tokyo 2020: The Best Olympic Games Ever?

James Porteous 8 August 2021 0 Comment

Photo: IOC – The 2020 summer Olympic Games in Japan (23 Jul-8 Aug, 2021) 08 August 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media The 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Japan (23 Jul-8 Aug, 2021). For the rest of...

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Instagram defends blocking IOC Olympic footage

James Porteous 5 August 2021 0 Comment

Photo: Double gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah was banned from Instagram for posting videos of her victories (Note: Photo has been cropped so as to avoid offending IOC copyright) 04 August 2021 | Martyn Landi...

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How a counter-movement in 1963 changed the Olympic Games forever

James Porteous 30 July 2021 0 Comment

Photo: Commemorative stamps of the “1st Games of the New Emerging Forces.” The 1964 Olympics in Tokyo banned all athletes who took part in a counter-competition a year earlier called the Games of the...

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Surfing’s Olympic Wave Whisperer

James Porteous 27 July 2021 0 Comment

Photo: Kurt Korte at Tsurigasaki Beach. “If we get to the end and we go, ‘Oh, no, the surf’s not very good,’ then I haven’t done my job.”Credit…James Hill for The New York Times Kurt...

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NBC Sports Crew’s Rewriting Rule Book to get 7000 Hours of Games onto the Air

James Porteous 23 July 2021 0 Comment

Traditionally NBC, like every other network covering the Games, would spend months filming athlete interviews and background material. 22 July 2021 | Brian Steinberg | Variety The people putting 7,000 hours of Olympics coverage...

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Japan’s Olympic money-making dreams have hit a snag

James Porteous 23 July 2021 0 Comment

Photo: The grand opening of the Shinkansen bullet train at Tokyo in October 1964. Newscom/Alamy It could be said that the Olympic Games were never intended to ‘make money.’ While the IOC and broadcasters will...

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Let the games begin: Japan declares a coronavirus state of emergency for Tokyo

James Porteous 8 July 2021 0 Comment

Photo: Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images Spectators to face Olympic ban as Tokyo declares coronavirus emergency-report 08 July 2021 | Eimi YamamitsuTetsushi Kajimoto | Reuters TOKYO, July 8 (Reuters) – Olympic organisers are set to ban...