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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.…

It’s impossible to avoid money at the Olympics. It’s everywhere: sponsorships, advertising, and evidence of…

Just about 11 months after the bizarre late-night confrontation that led to Ryan Lochte being charged in Rio with…

Less than a year after the Olympic Games in Rio, Samir Ait Said, the French gymnast who suffered a gruesome leg…

The Rio Olympics, which started with an “uninhabitable” athletes’ village and continued on with a creeping green…

Two weeks ago we wrote about the decaying state of Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic facilities and noted that the Maracanã…

United States intelligence agencies believe that Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the hacking of the…

Back in May, the former director of Russia’s anti-doping laboratory came forward with reports of widespread doping…

Kenya finished the Rio Olympics with 13 track and field medals, second only to the United States who finished with…

World champion pole vaulter Shawnacy Barber tested positive for cocaine after winning the Canadian Olympic trials in…

That fellow up there in the blue is Irish welterweight Steven Donnelly, after his round-of-16 win at the Rio…

Perhaps feeling a little bent out of shape about how much shit their country caught for running a massive, Cold…

Ryan Lochte has been suspended for ten months by the IOC and USA Swimming, per a report from TMZ Sports. This means…

U.S. high jumper Inika McPherson finished 10th in the Olympic final, finishing second for Team USA behind Chaunte…

In 1974, the Iranian national women’s volleyball team competed in the well-recognized volleyball ensemble—shorts and…

Strong-as-hell swimming champion Katie Ledecky is from Washington D.C., and the Nationals invited her to come throw…

I have few rules of airplane travel, but they are inviolable. Get to the airport ass-early, because having to wait…

The Olympic 10,000 meters was eyeballs out, hands down the fastest, deepest women’s 25-lap race I have ever seen.…

By now everybody knows the modern Olympic Games system—whereby competing cities bid for the right to piss the GDP of…

The funny thing about bias is that it’s the necessary basis of any opinion. And now that we’ve all had our…