The International Olympic Committee has a penchant for choosing genocidal and repressive regimes as hosts for the Olympics and then conspiring with them to present massive propaganda festivals that secure international approval for these tyrannies. The IOC’s selection of China…
Djokovic is defeated In the quarter-final match, Novak Djokovic closed the first set with an ace. It looked like he was going to cruise right into the semi-finals, overwhelming a nervous, error-prone, and frustrated Alexander Zverev, who hurled his racquet…
The world has turned upside down in Tokyo. When the mainstream media reported that the 2020 Olympic Games could serve as a feminist turning point in the sports sphere, the last thing one would imagine is that modesty would become…
Simone Biles, an artistic gymnast with a combined total of 30 Olympic and World Championship medals, has become the epicenter of yet another culture war. Biles, who is undoubtedly a superb athlete, gave an unusually terrible performance during the qualifying…
There has been much ado about women at the Tokyo Olympics, much of it sorrowful. Spanish tennis star Paula Badosa was wheeled off the court, felled by more heat and humidity than she could take. Such male competitors as Daniil…
The four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles dropped out from the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team finals Tuesday. Her stunning withdrawal was originally thought to be due to a physical injury after her uncharacteristically lackluster vault performance. She failed to complete…
The Tokyo Olympics will likely be the most expensive Olympics in history even as recent polls have shown that as much as 70 percent of the Japanese public wants the games canceled or postponed because of COVID-19. The pandemic restrictions…
Transgenderism has hit the Olympics. After years of confining itself to small-fry athletic contests like high-school track meets, the philosophy that is bending genders and opening ladies’ restrooms (and women’s prisons) to male interlopers is taking its act to arguably…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) wrote a letter Friday on behalf of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties expressing “dismay” over the suspension of sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson for drug use, saying the policy was…
