The Olympic fever associated with the Winter Games taking place in South Korea has once again brought to the surface the topic of raising future champions. Team USA is in the top five in the medal standings, having already surpassed the mark of 20 medals, of which 9 are gold. More…
Students and graduates of Stanford University brought 27 medals to the American team at the 2016 Olympics. Among them are swimmers Katie Ledecky, Maya Dirado and Simone Manuel, as well as fencer Alexander Massialas. Ledecky had the most success in Rio of the entire US women's team (4...
19-year-old Simone Biles became a four-time Rio 4 champion on Tuesday, winning the floor exercise. This is Biles' third individual medal at the current Olympics, putting her ahead of her compatriot Michael Phelps. The legendary swimmer has two gold medals at the 2016 Games in...
23-year-old Greco-Roman wrestler Davit Chakvetadze won the gold medal of the 2016 Olympic Games, which became the tenth for Russian athletes in the tournament. In the final bout of the weight category up to 85 kg, Chakvetadze was stronger than the reigning world champion Zhan Beleniuk from Ukraine, who was considered ...
In the first 7 days of competition in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the US team took a confident lead in the unofficial medal table. The Russian national team, which suffered numerous losses amid the doping scandal, faced not only the absence of a number of medal contenders (the heavy ...
American gymnast Simone Biles became the 2016 Rio Olympic champion in the absolute all-around. The second was another representative of the US national team, Alexandra Raizman, and Russian Aliya Mustafina won the bronze medal. NBC commentator Al Trautwig incurred the ire of the American public by refusing to name ...
NBC commentator Al Trautwig incurred the wrath of the American public by refusing to call the adoptive mother and father of gymnast Simone Biles “parents.” The day before, 19-year-old Biles and her teammates from the US team won gold medals at the 2016 Olympics team championship in artistic gymnastics. For 10x...
Judoka Khasan Khalmurzaev brought the Russian team the third gold medal at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. This is already the second Russian gold medal in judo competitions after the victory of Beslan Mudranov on the first day of the 2016 Games. 22-year-old Khalmurzaev, a native of the Republic of Ingushetia, became the winner in the weight category up to 81 kg, ...
As an accredited journalist, I worked at two Paralympics - the London 2012 Summer Paralympics and the Sochi Winter 2014 Paralympics. Both times I watched how incredibly athletes with disabilities and boundless spirit overcame themselves and...
A group of Russian fans bought fake tickets from dealers for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, TASS reports. The fake tickets, each costing $ 150, looked like real ones: “The ticket had the necessary stickers, but there were no additional degrees of protection that are visible ...