This weekend, Japanese ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi broke Europe’s decades-long domination of the ski jump World Cup…
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Dvora Meyers
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Dvora Meyers is a staff writer at Deadspin.
Earlier this week, lawmakers in Inglewood, California pushed through a rent stabilization ordinance that seeks to…
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One of the few things that the Olympics do well, aside from putting cities in significant debt that can take decades…
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Sports team mascots are creepy as a general rule. It comes with the territory to a certain extent, but I can’t…
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Last month, Paris 2024 organizers voted to include breaking in the 2024 Summer Games. If the IOC votes next year to…
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A week before the 2012 Olympics, a group of researchers and academics gathered for the International Convention on…
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Liubou Charkashyna, the president of the International Gymnastics Federation’s athletes’ commission—which was…
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The World Bridge Federation announced today that Geir Helgemo, the world’s top-ranked bridge player, has been…
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Athlete representatives in the U.S. Olympic movement recently met in the basement of an airport hotel in Chicago to…
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What’s worse than rain on your wedding day or on your parade? Rain during your outdoor athletic event at the…
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After its successful trial run at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires this past October, Paris 2024…
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Four months after Nike-hating Mary Bono stepped down as president of USA Gymnastics after about five days at the helm
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Another day, another report of costs increases for the Olympics. Just a few days after we learned that the Rio…
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The Times reported yesterday that the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) will argue in front…
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This week Japanese swimming star Rikako Ikee announced that she has been diagnosed with leukemia and is starting…
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I really don’t know anything about dogs despite having owned one for the past six years.
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In its new year’s letter, one of the key accomplishments the IOC touted was improved relationships on the Korean…
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Just because the Olympics are long over doesn’t mean that we’re done with the fallout from the Rio de Janeiro Games.…
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Reebok Russia’s attempt to inject a progressive message into its recent marketing campaign has blown up in its face.…
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Alina Zagitova, the Russian teen who narrowly edged two-time defending world champion Evgenia Medvedeva for the…
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