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Getty Images The Summer Olympics begin this weekend in London. For more than a century, the modern Olympic games have provided a global stage for athletes to deliver unforgettable moments of competition, courage and compassion. The world’s best...

With just 18 days to go before the start of the Olympic Games, the McLaren report on Russia’s doping problems was released. What does it mean? How did this all start? In 2014, Russian athlete Yuliya Stepanova and her husband, Vitaliy Stepanov, a former...

For almost every athlete in Rio, participating in the 2016 Olympic Games represents the pinnacle of their career. The 100-meter dash, the uneven bars, the marathon pentathlon—these events reach public consciousness just once every four years, and the...

For four decades, the University of Tennessee Lady Vol basketball program was among the nation’s elite and, in the process, changed the way women’s collegiate hoops has been perceived across the country. No one did a better job of managing what goes...

But LGBT groups are fighting back. The following article first appeared in the Nation. For more great content from the Nation, subscribe to their newsletter.  It says something about the skittish levels of repression and fear in Russia that nail...