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The 2020 Olympics were called off, but a few Olympians still suited up. Sports power players from Team USA Simone Biles, Nathan Adrian, Jagger Eaton and Allyson Felix transformed into “The Avengers” to celebrate the release of a new Marvel video game, which debuted earlier this month through Square Enix games. The real-life superheroes are …
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It’s all fun and games until you play an Olympian. After it was announced that the 2020 Olympics were postponed to next year, comedians Kim and Penn Holderness — the couple behind some of Facebook and YouTube’s most watched musical parodies — decided to challenge real-life Olympians to a slew of silly competitions. Throughout the …
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Ryan Lochte is happily married with two kids — and he may have his swimming suspensions to thank for it. “I don’t have any regrets, because if that didn’t happen then I don’t know where I’d be, like I probably wouldn’t be married and I probably wouldn’t have kids,” the Olympian told Page Six. “So …
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This 1968 Mexico City Olympics torch sold for $41,786 at auction.RR Auction An official 1968 Mexico City Olympics torch sold for $41,786 at auction as part of a sale of Olympics gear that also included gold medals from various games from 1908 to 1988. The museum-quality torch was notable because it was a so-called “Type …
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by L I N D S E Y • V O N N (@lindseyvonn) on Jul 20, 2020 at 9:30am PDT Lindsey Vonn has found a new role in her post-Olympics career. On Monday, the retired skier, 35, shared a video of her latest endeavor, modeling a …
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When the Olympics returned to Los Angeles in 1984, Kimberly Carlisle went to the Grand Canyon, avoiding the wondrous sights and sounds she couldn’t enjoy. She wouldn’t watch the next Games, either. By 1990, she’d been retired from swimming for seven years. She worked in journalism and sales. She was married. She’d soon be pregnant …
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Someone’s on the other line. Rulon Gardner will call right back. It has been nearly 20 years since you first met the legend, who outmuscled logic and outlasted an immortal. It was in Sydney where the first line of a 29-year-old’s obituary was written, where Gardner pulled “The Miracle on the Mat” by handing Aleksandr …
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A bad dream is getting worse for Isiah Thomas. The Hall of Fame Pistons point guard was snubbed from the Dream Team in 1992 and Sunday’s new installment of “The Last Dance” may have provided another reminder of why Thomas didn’t get to chase an Olympic gold medal with one of the greatest teams ever. …
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People wearing protective face masks following an outbreak of the coronavirus next to the Olympic rings in front of the Japan Olympic Museum in Tokyo, Japan, February 26, 2020. The Tokyo Olympics will begin on July 23, 2021, about one year after the games were originally scheduled to take place. “The schedule for the games …
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The 2020 summer Olympic Games in Tokyo will be postponed until next year, the International Olympic Committee announced after a formal request from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe to delay the event because of the global coronavirus outbreak. “The unprecedented and unpredictable spread of the outbreak has seen the situation in the rest of the world deteriorating,” read …
The 2020 Olympics were called off, but a few Olympians still suited up. Sports power players from Team USA Simone Biles, Nathan Adrian, Jagger Eaton and Allyson Felix transformed into “The Avengers” to celebrate the release of a new Marvel video game, which debuted earlier this month through Square Enix games. The real-life superheroes are …
