Olympic Games
“Leslie Jones does not stay anywhere I’m not welcomed,” the comedian wrote on Instagram.
El Paso kinesiologist Eric Lira is accused of peddling performance enhancing drugs to two athletes during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee has a history of enabling authoritarianism (see: the Nazis), and covering for China amid the Peng Shuai scandal is only the latest example.
Everything about the COVID Olympics has been surreal, from the crass coverage of Simone Biles to the tear-jerking moments of victory. (Yay, Tom Daley!) What do we make of it all?
The federal prohibition on marijuana has damaged American lives for half a century; this is the latest and most egregious example of it.
The “Last Week Tonight” host argued that Japan’s COVID-19 situation is still too dire for the Summer Olympics in July—a sentiment echoed by the country’s own scientific adviser.
Peacock’s documentary tries to address what happened in Rio, but gets caught up in the empty question of Ryan Lochte’s legacy.