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Michael Phelps Had This Advice for Olympic Hopefuls Whose 2020 Dreams Were Delayed
The one year delay of the Tokyo Olympic Games was devastating for the athletes who had been training all their lives for 2020. The most decorated Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps, discussed the mental challenges these athletes have faced, and how he would have responded himself.
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Michael Phelps Removed the Word ‘Can't' From His Vocabulary and Says You Should Too
Swimming legend Michael Phelps is working with Gen Z community members to make a positive impact around the world through Colgate’s Optimism Project. The Olympian athlete talked to LX News about how he’s learned to use the power of positivity to overcome challenges in his own life and career.
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Breakdancing Gets Olympic Status to Debut at Paris in 2024
Breakdancing has been confirmed as an official Olympic sport
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Breakdancing Will Make Olympic Debut in 2024
The International Olympic Committee announced that breakdancing will be an Olympic event at the 2024 Summer Games in Paris.
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Tokyo Olympic Venues Lined Up, Schedule Remains the Same
The 42 venues for next year’s delayed Tokyo Olympics have been secured and the competition schedule will remain almost identical to the one that would have been used this year
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How Elite Sports Punishes Women for Becoming Mothers
Alysia Montano, an Olympic runner and mother of two, talked to The New York Times about her struggle to maintain her career and her sponsorship with Nike during her pregnancy. The system should stop treating pregnancy like an injury, she says.
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Tokyo Olympic Head Says 80% of Facilities Lined Up for 2021
The head of the Tokyo Olympics says 80% of the facilities needed for next year’s games have “basic approval” to be used
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Olympian Tianna Bartoletta Says IOC Rules Against Protesting Are 'Tone Deaf'
Tianna Bartoletta, a track and field star with three gold medals, says IOC Rule 50, which prohibits athletes from political protests like kneeling or raising a fist, is wrong for these times.
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Project Runway: Olympian Morris Builds Own Pole Vault Setup
Olympic pole vaulting silver medalist Sandi Morris didn’t have a place to practice and plenty of down time due to the coronavirus pandemic
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Athletes Already Qualified for Tokyo Games Get to Keep Spots
About 6,500 athletes who already have earned their spots in the Tokyo Olympics are in for 2021
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IOC Official Says No Deadline for Decision on Olympics
The leader of the IOC’s coordination commission for the Tokyo Olympics says there is no May deadline to cancel the games and he remains confident the event will go ahead despite sports coming to a virtual standstill globally amid the coronavirus epidemic
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Olympic Rings Arrive in Host City on Barge Into Tokyo Bay
The Olympic rings have arrived in Tokyo. They sailed into Tokyo Bay on a barge and will stay there until the Olympics open on July 24 and close on August 9.
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Can Japan's ‘Recovery Olympics' Heal Fukushima's Nuclear Scars?
Nine years after “Fukushima” became synonymous with nuclear disaster, the area will help kick off the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo by hosting the opening ceremony’s torch relay near its devastated power plant.
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IOC Details Rules on Political Protests at Olympics
Olympic athletes have been told which protests will not be allowed at the 2020 Tokyo Games. That means no taking a knee and no political hand gestures. The IOC Athletes’ Commission has published a three-page guidance document after consulting with competitors. Athletes wanted clarity about how a long-standing ban on political protests in venues would apply in practice. Political opinions...
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Tokyo Olympics Bring New Sports as Event Embraces Millennials
Tokyo 2020 is not going to be your grandparents’ Olympic Games. When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed five new sports were to be included in the Tokyo 2020 Games, it was a clear signal the organization was making a concerted effort to embrace youth culture. To that end skateboarding, surfing, sports climbing and karate, as well as the return...
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Maryland Family Reacts to DeVos' Plan to Cut Special Olympics Funding
Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was grilled by members of Congress after her plan to slash all federal funding of the Special Olympics. News4’s Meagan Fitzgerald spoke with a brother and sister who would be “devastated” if the program was defunded.
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Step 1: Paris Wants to Debut Breakdance at 2024 Olympics
Getting hip to breakdancing’s appeal with young audiences, organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympics want the dance sport that spread from New York in the 1970s to become a medal event at the games.
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Olympic Gymnast Aly Raisman Breaks Elbow in Fall on Stairs
Raisman in a Twitter post says “I survived two Olympic Games and 19 years of gymnastics without ever breaking a bone … the stairs got me … I fell and broke my elbow.”
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NBC Olympics Unveils Tokyo 2020 Logo on 54th Anniversary of 1964 Games
Coinciding with the 54th anniversary of the opening of the Olympic Games Tokyo 1964, NBC Olympics Wednesday unveiled the logo for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.