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Simone Biles Reveals She's Been Taking Medication for ADHD After Hackers Leak Her Rio Olympics Drug Test
America's golden girl Simone Biles has become the victim of a Russian hacking scandal. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed Tuesday that a Russian cyber espionage group, known as Fancy Bear, illegally broke into its database and obtained private medical records of American athletes through an International Olympic Committee (IOC)-created account. The 19-year-old gymnast, who took home four gold medals and one bronze at the Rio Olympics, addressed the drug testing leak on Twitter Tuesd
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Here's Why Gabby Douglas Wasn't On The VMAs Red Carpet
When the Olympics’ Final Five walked the VMAs white carpet tonight, a notable member was missing.
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Simone Biles Is Wearing The Prom Dress She Never Got A Chance To Wear At The VMAs
Fresh off their Olympics wins, most of the U.S. gymnastics team’s “Final Five” hit the MTV Video Music Awards’ step-and-repeat tonight.
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Shirtless Tonga Flag Bearer Shines (Literally) Yet Again at Olympic Closing Ceremony
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A Look Back at 80 Years of Olympic Basketball Uniforms
Basketball — which was invented by a Canadian in 1891 — was popularized in the United States after the U.S. team won the gold medal in the event at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. Throughout the years, as the sport became recognized and played by other countries around the world, there was more competition for the U.S. team, who won gold at the Olympics from 1936 to 1968.
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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.
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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