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The Weight Of Gold: A Dark Side Of Olympic Success
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With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics only five months away, Nike has announced its plans to make this year’s games the most sustainable ever. As reported by Brit
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Simone Biles Just Became The First Woman To Land ANOTHER Flip
Simone Biles is perfection. The Olympic gymnast has had our hearts for years. She was part of the “final five” gold-medal winning team at the 2016 Olym
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Ashley Wagner Says John Coughlin Sexually Assaulted Her
Olympic figure skater Ashley Wagner wrote a powerful essay for USA Today saying that she was sexually assaulted by John Coughlin, a fellow Olympic figure s
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Why Chloe Kim Always Makes Sure Her Voice Is Heard
Chloe Kim is a 19-year-old snowboarder from Long Beach, California. At the PyeongChang Olympics in 2018, she took home a gold medal in the halfpipe event a
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Fitness
"I Feel Like Every Girl Should Play Sports"
Courtney Okolo's passion for running grew organically from her days in the schoolyard. Lining up to race the other kids, boys included, she regularly
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How This Track Olympian Overcame Mental Illness
On Her Turf, powered by NBC Sports and Refinery29, empowers female athletes both on and off the field. In the video above, Olympic track star Brigetta Barr
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Health News
What The New Testosterone Rule Means For Women Athletes
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) ruled on Wednesday that women athletes who have high testosterone levels will have to take ho
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Sexual Harassment
Aly Raisman Discusses Next Steps For Helping Survivors Of Sexual ...
Aly Raisman, three-time gold medal Olympic gymnast, has been a force at the forefront of conversations surrounding sexual assault survivors and child sexua
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Pop Culture
Zac Efron Is Into Sports, Including The Olympic Athlete Who He Ma...
The dedicated staff at Us Weekly have confirmed, via a source, that Zac Efron is dating Olympian Sarah Bro. We will only know for sure, though, if they att
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Serena Williams Is The Only Woman On Twitter's "Most Tweeted Abou...
Twitter announced its annual list of “most tweeted about” topics and celebrities, including the athletes that were the most talked about this y
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News
Lindsey Vonn, LeBron James & Other Celebs Just Launched A New Wel...
A team led by LeBron James, Lindsey Vonn, Cindy Crawford and Arnold Schwarzenegger sounds like the kind of situation where we'd ride the bench a lot,
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Fitness
Simone Biles Didn’t Let A Kidney Stone Keep Her From Dominating W...
Is there anything Simone Biles can’t do? The superstar gymnast has collected five Olympic medals — four of them are gold — and a staggering 14 medals
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Former USA Gymnastics President Arrested For Allegedly Tampering ...
Steve Penny, former president of USA Gymnastics, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly tampering with evidence related to the investigation into Larry Na
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New USA Gymnastics President Resigns After Criticism From Aly Rai...
USA Gymnastics interim president Mary Bono resigned from her position on Tuesday, citing personal attacks that would make her a “liability” to
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Aly Raisman: "Child Sexual Abuse Isn't A Kid Problem, It's An Adu...
On Monday, Aly Raisman wrote a powerful op-ed for the Boston Globe about child sexual abuse, specifically, how the stigma associated with it can impact chi
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Two More Olympic Gymnasts Came Forward About Larry Nassar
Today, Kyla Ross and Madison Kocian, former Olympians and current members of the NCAA UCLA gymnastics team, went on CBS This Morning to speak about the dis
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TV Shows
Colton Underwood Won’t Talk About His Ex Aly Raisman Out Of Respect
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After South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya won gold in the 800 meters at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World
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William Strampel, the former dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Michigan State University who supervised Larry Nassar, was arrested on four cou
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Music
Alise Indall Goes For The Gold With "I Am That Girl"
You may have heard a song during the Olympics called “I'm That Girl.” It played on NBC promos celebrating the female athletes on Team USA
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What's Next For The US Women's Hockey Team?
It'd be a gross understatement to say that the US women's hockey team had a good Olympics this year. For the first time in 20 years, Team USA bea
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News
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Aly Raisman, three-time gold medal Olympic gymnast, is suing the US Olympic Committee (USOC) and USA Gymnastics (USAG), claiming that the organizations kne
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