Tag: Olympic games

At several recent U.S. competitions, sportspeople ... have raised their fists or taken the knee during the national anthem.

Is it really fairness, equality and human dignity that we have maintained and protected?

[The U.S.] started to break away from the fantasy that it could fundamentally change China through diplomatic, economic and cultural intervention.

Now more than ever ... we must emphasize the Olympic spirit of peace and cooperation.

For Beijing, the athletes are nothing more than useful pawns.

[I]t is difficult to describe in words how inspiring it is for Hmong Americans to see one of their own 18-year-olds standing on the podium with a gold medal.

The political positions taken by American athletes are nothing new, of course.

Then, in 1980, to protest the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, American President Jimmy Carter ordered a boycott of the Moscow Games.

The gymnast’s difficulties in Tokyo resonate in a year when mental health in sport has risen to the fore.

This astonishing athlete’s greatest triumph may be to make us confront the mental demands our culture puts on athletes.