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Olympics

The wild finish to the Olympic women’s figure skating final

By Alex Abad-Santos February 17, 2022

The hidden reason Olympic sledding is so dangerous

By Marie Cascione February 16, 2022

The shocking decision to allow Kamila Valieva to skate at the Olympics, explained

By Alex Abad-Santos February 15, 2022

Kamila Valieva failed her drug test. Blame her coaches.

By Alex Abad-Santos February 11, 2022

The Russian women’s figure skating team has bigger problems than doping

By Alex Abad-Santos February 11, 2022

Artificial snow is nothing like the real stuff

By Neel Dhanesha February 10, 2022

How Nathan Chen won Olympic gold

By Alex Abad-Santos February 10, 2022

Why the Olympic monobob event is only for women

By Kimberly Mas February 9, 2022

The secret to winning a short track speed skating race

By Laura Bult February 8, 2022

Why ski jumpers hold their skis in a V

By Edward Vega February 7, 2022

Will climate change melt the Winter Olympics?

By Umair Irfan February 5, 2022

The Olympic ideal is about world peace. The Olympic reality is far from it.

By Bryan Walsh February 5, 2022

Why the Olympics opening ceremony felt kinda weird

By Aja Romano February 4, 2022

How figure skating became all about the jumps

By Alex Abad-Santos February 3, 2022

The Olympics are meant to be a beacon of progress. A century of film tells another story.

By Alissa Wilkinson February 1, 2022

What happens when omicron hits China

By Jonathan Guyer December 24, 2021

What the US’s diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics does — and doesn’t — mean

By Jen Kirby December 10, 2021

The long reach of Belarus’s repression

By Jen Kirby August 7, 2021

How Olympic divers make the perfect tiny splash

By Edward Vega August 5, 2021

Why the “wolf turn” is such a big deal

By Antonella Crescimbeni August 2, 2021

Will the Tokyo Olympics be a superspreader event?

By Dylan Scott July 30, 2021

America’s mental health moment is finally here

By Anna North July 30, 2021

Why Simone Biles withdrew from the Olympic gymnastic women’s team finals

By Alex Abad-Santos July 28, 2021

Why the 400m hurdles is one of the hardest Olympic races

By Kimberly Mas July 26, 2021

Our bodies can adapt to hotter conditions — but there’s a limit

By Brian Resnick July 26, 2021

The Simone Biles scoring controversy, explained

By Alex Abad-Santos July 24, 2021

How to become an Olympic sport

By Emily St. James July 24, 2021

Gymnastics still hasn’t fully reckoned with its abuse problem

By Anna North July 24, 2021

The Olympics are stuck in the 1980s on marijuana

By German Lopez July 7, 2021

Tokyo’s Olympic Village will be very vaccinated

By Jen Kirby June 23, 2021

The complicated politics of a Beijing 2022 boycott

By Jen Kirby June 1, 2021

The Olympics’ Covid-19 dilemma

By Jen Kirby May 17, 2021

Tokyo 2021? The decision to postpone the Summer Olympics, explained.

By Jen Kirby March 24, 2020

The surprising science of why ice is so slippery

By Brian Resnick January 31, 2019

How ski warfare created biathlon

By Mac Schneider March 2, 2018

North Korea wants to talk to the US. That’s a big deal.

By Alex Ward February 25, 2018

NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage was the best it’s been in years

By Emily St. James February 25, 2018

Russia hacked the Olympics and tried to make it look like North Korea did it

By Emily Stewart February 25, 2018

Why Russian athletes are marching as “OARs” at the Winter Olympics closing ceremony

By Zeeshan Aleem February 24, 2018

2018 Winter Olympics closing ceremony: how to watch and what to expect

By Caroline Framke February 24, 2018