Olympics News

  • NewsCaleigh Rykiss

    Why Vogue Brazil’s Paralympic photoshoot fail is on all of us

    The only thing keeping me going is the fact the Paralympians will take center stage in Rio in just a few weeks. In attempts to boost attention, Vogue Brazil teamed up with the Paralympic committee for a photoshoot to promote the Games and draw attention to the athletes.  Sounds like a great idea, right? The limbs of soap stars Cléo Pires and Paulo Vilhena were digitally altered to mimic the real bodies of Brazilian Paralympians Renato Leite and Bruninha Alexandre.  I’m sorry, what?!  You have

  • NewsKristine Solomon

    The Most Stylish Olympians Are the Female Golfers

    It turns out — as lifestyle commentators Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir learned — it’s the female golfers who are killing the fashion game at this year’s Games in Rio.

  • NewsJenna Birch

    What Drives the Connection Between Eating Disorders and Certain Sports?

    Dara Torres, celebrating a record time in the 2008 U.S. Olympic trials, battled bulimia in college. “I was extremely dark and moody,” she writes. “Pretty much all I thought about during college was what I ate, what I wanted to eat, what other people ate, what I’d need to do to get rid of the calories I’d ingested, how much exercise I got, and how I would look in my swimsuit when I mounted the blocks.” While Torres has now recovered from her eating disorder from college days, when she was one of

  • NewsErica Rae Chong

    Here's the real reason behind the Tongan flag bearer's body oil

    Tonga’s flag bearer, Pita Nikolas Taufatofua, stole the limelight at the opening ceremony at the Rio Olympic Games wearing a traditional island garb and plenty of body oil. BREAKING: Tonga has now has a shortage of oil.

  • NewsJenna Birch

    How Saudi Arabia’s Sarah Attar Completed the Rio Marathon Covered Head to Toe

    Saudi-Arabian marathon runner Sarah Attar finished the Olympic marathon in three hours and 14 seconds, roughly 52 minutes behind the winner. Covered head-to-toe in conservative clothing to honor her religious beliefs, Attar spent that whole 26.2 miles dripping in sweat to break barriers for a subset of female athletes around the world. This is Attar’s second Olympics, but Sunday marked her first marathon appearance.

  • NewsKristine Solomon

    Special K Is Putting Simone Biles on Its Cereal Box

    The U.S. women’s gymnastics team will grace Gold Medal Edition boxes of Special K Red Berries cereal, with Simone Biles on one side, the "Final Five" on the other.