2014-olympics - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

American hero T.J. Oshie’s time in the nation’s capital should come to an endAs the Washington Capitals exited last year’s playoffs in the first round against an upstart Florida Panthers squad, it felt like the end of an era. The core of the team stayed together from their 2018 Stanley Cup victory but hadn’t won a playoff game since and was only growing grayer. And if being ...

Claude Giroux gets his dueSaturday might have been the day that put Claude Giroux’s eventual candidacy for the Hall of Fame over the top. That’s a strange thing for an All-Star Game MVP nod, but sometimes you need a cherry on the sundae to bring it home. ...

WADA Report: Russian Government Covered Up Athletes Doping With Incredibly Elaborate SchemeWhen the former director of Russia’s anti-doping laboratory turned whistleblower and alleged a complex doping scheme at the Sochi Olympics that involved dozens of doped athletes and Russian officials sneaking into the sample collection room at night to swap out vials of urine, it seemed almost too u...

Report: Russian Olympic Doping Program Was Comically Impressive

For all the very real problems with sports’ war on drugs and the self-serving PED scolds, I can only read this latest report about Russia’s state-run doping efforts at the Sochi Olympic Games with something resembling awe. According to a whistleblower, officials, including those from Russia’s intell...

The Sochi Olympics Were Even More Of A Boondoggle Than You thought

The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, were a scam from the very start. Sochi is a resort city with mild weather that had nothing close to the infrastructure necessary to host the Olympics, yet the initial budget was only $12 billion dollars. In comparison, the budget for the 2010 Winter Olympic...

Is Time For Olympic Leopard Attack

Vladimir Putin visited the Sochi National Park today because he wanted to pet a leopard. The BBC reports that while Putin was petting the leopard, it attacked two journalists. Play the video above to see what a pissed-off leopard trying to kill a poor schmo with a camera looks like....

Mayor Of Sochi: Gay People? Huh? Nope, None Of Those Here

Did you know that not a single gay person lives in Sochi, Russia, the site of the upcoming Winter Olympics? It's true! The mayor says so....

Report: Suicide Bomber May Have Breached Security At Sochi Olympics

Here's some unsettling news out of Sochi. Russian police reportedly fear that a "black widow" suicide bomber may have recently breached the ring of security around the site of the 2014 Olympic games. Police have reportedly launched an urgent search in an effort to find the woman....

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Vladimir Putin Warns Gay Olympic Visitors To "Leave Children Alone"

Good news, gays and lesbians planning to go to the Sochi Olympics! Russian President Vladimir Putin says you won't be arrested and thrown into prison as long as you keep your gay away from the children....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Fri Jan 17 2014

Lindsey Vonn Will Not Compete In The Winter Olympics

U.S. Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn announced this morning that she will not be competing in the upcoming Winter Olympics because of a sprained MCL in her right knee. Vonn hurt her knee while skiing off course at a World Cup event in December. In November, Vonn partially tore her surgically repaired ACL...

by Tom Ley|

|Tue Jan 07 2014

America's Olympic Delegation Is A Calculated Insult To Russia

For the last five Olympics, the U.S. delegation to the opening ceremonies has included either the President, Vice-President, or First Lady. Not this time, Russia. You get the President's assistant, and a few openly gay former athletes....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Wed Dec 18 2013

Olympic Torchbearer Briefly Lights Self On Fire

As former Olympic bobsledder Pyotr Makarchuk carried the torch through the Siberian city of Abakan on Wednesday, he spilled some flaming liquid fuel onto his jacket. It was promptly put out by his escorts, avoiding the worst Gazprom commercial ever. ...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Fri Nov 29 2013

Oh Look, Russia Is Brutalizing Its Olympic Migrant Workers

While we're all still worked up about Qatar's blatant mistreatment of the many thousands of migrant workers who will soon begin building infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup, here's a reminder that Qatar doesn't have the market cornered on turning international sporting events into humanitarian cri...

by Tom Ley|

|Thu Oct 03 2013

Russia Has Officially Banned Protests At The Sochi Olympics

Russia's official government newspaper today published a new presidential decree signed by Vladimir Putin that bans all protests or demonstrations in Sochi from one month before the start of the Olympics until one month after. Sorry, gays and sympathizers!...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Fri Aug 23 2013

Pavel Datsyuk Defers To Religion On Russian Anti-Gay Laws

When Henrik Zetterberg and Victor Hedman publicly spoke out against Russia's anti-gay laws, we openly wondered what would happen when reporters approached the NHL's Russian players. Well, here's one....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Thu Aug 22 2013

Two Olympic-Bound NHLers Speak Out Against Russia's Anti-Gay Laws

Tampa Bay's Victor Hedman and Detroit's Henrik Zetterberg, both locks for Sweden's Olympic team, have criticized Russian laws that ban "homosexual propaganda"ahead of the Sochi games....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Fri Aug 16 2013

Athlete Protests Against Russia's Anti-Gay Laws Have Already Begun

Earlier today at the World Championships in Moscow, two Swedish athletes offered up a subtle yet unmistakable protest against Russia's oppressive anti-gay policies ahead of next year's Olympics. But athletes remain split on the right way to speak out, or whether to do it at all....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Thu Aug 15 2013

John Amaechi Asks 2014 Sochi Olympians Not To Stick To Sports

Openly gay former NBA player John Amaechi penned an open letter to the National Olympics Committee and athletes competing in the 2014 Sochi Olympics on his site. He urged them not to ignore Russia's horrific anti-gay laws while they compete, but publicly speak out against them....

by Samer Kalaf|

|Sat Aug 10 2013

A prominent Russian opposition figure claims that corruption has put $30 billion into the pockets of politicians and businessmen in the run-up to the Sochi Olympics. [AP]...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Thu May 30 2013

Olympic Organizers: Ugh, Fine. We Won't Kill 2,000 Stray Cats And Dogs

Getting a city ready to host the Winter Olympics is not an easy task. Stadiums have to be built, snow has to be hoarded, scores of innocent animals have to be mercilessly slaughtered. It's all just such an ordeal....

by Tom Ley|

|Thu Apr 18 2013

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