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The Timeless Appeal of Tommie Smith, Who Knew a Podium Could Be a Site of Protest

The Timeless Appeal of Tommie Smith, Who Knew a Podium Could Be a Site of Protest
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Boycotting the next Olympics in Beijing will hurt athletes: Here s a better idea

Boycotting the next Olympics in Beijing will hurt athletes: Here s a better idea
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The golden moments

SHARING OPTIONS: Paul O’Donovan, left, and Fintan McCarthy after winning gold in the men’s lightweight double sculls. \ Sportsfile It’s often said that the Irish psyche reacts better to being an underdog rather than having the favourites’ tag, but we do have a suspicion that that’s a handy excuse. Certainly, it wasn’t a comfort blanket that Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy needed as they went to Japan for the Olympic Games as favourites to win the men’s lightweight double sculls rowing and backed up that view with a superb performance to claim gold. Given that it was the country’s first gold medal since Katie Taylor’s in 2012, the natural reaction of most was to celebrate the victory for what it was, two top practitioners franking their status as the world’s best. That’s the end of the spectrum we’d lean to as well, but of course there will never be unanimity with such things.

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From friendships to slogans, the Vatican makes its mark at the Tokyo Olympics

Vatican athletes might never compete in the Olympic Games, but the small Catholic state still hopes to have an influence on the global sportin.

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Tokyo 2021: How Belarus authoritarian creep reached the Olympic Games

Save Share The founder of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin, conceived of his philosophy of âOlympismâ as being above politics. Yet in truth, politics has always intruded upon the Games. Germany and Japan were not invited to the 1948 competition. A US-led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan the year before, led dozens of countries to pull out. The Soviets responded in 1984 with an Eastern bloc counter-boycott in Los Angeles. This year, politics is once again encroaching on Olympic sport after Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, a Belarusian runner, accused her countryâs Olympic Committee of attempting to forcibly repatriate her home on August 1.

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