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’
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?
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
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
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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Surfingâs Olympic Wave Whisperer
Photo: Kurt Korte at Tsurigasaki Beach. âIf we get to the end and we go, âOh, no, the surfâs not very good,â then I havenât done my job.âCredit…James Hill for The New York Times Kurt...
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(Update) With or without spectators, NBC’s Tokyo Olympic broadcaster fees look secure
Plenty at stake for NBC as COVID Olympics opening looms 16 July 2021 | DAVID BAUDER | AP NEW YORK (AP) â If all goes well for NBC Universal over the next several weeks,...
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