2018
Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody - Scott Hamilton
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The Winter Olympics Are the Best Olympics
The Winter Olympics are the Hydrox cookies of quadrennial international sporting events: the less glamorous, less popular, and more challenging-to-access version of a popular product. The sports are bizarre yet oddly similar. There are three different styles of skiing (four if you count snowboarding, which I do, not to mention skiing with guns), multiple variations on slip-and-slide, disciplines that reward participants for showing off more brazenly than their rivals, and one that involves rocks, skips, and strange Scandinavian pants.
What’s more, the helmeted and salopetted athletes are largely anonymous. Unless you are Canadian, or have no way of fast-forwarding through NBC’s commercials,…
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Can the Winter Olympics survive on a warming planet?
The Snowman cometh: one man’s fight to save skiing.
How many calories Olympians eat
Performance nutrition is now a critical part of athletes’ strategy to win.
How the Olympics Could Help Defuse the North Korea Crisis
The games give Trump a chance to affirm inter-Korean diplomacy while laying the groundwork for talks with the Kim regime.
Of 21 Winter Olympic Cities, Many May Soon Be Too Warm to Host the Games
By midcentury, nine former Winter Olympics sites may not be reliably cold enough for the Games.
The Winter Olympics Are Way Too Long
The Winter Olympics are a magical time every four years for people to marvel at sports that would almost certainly kill you, gawk at figure-skating wardrobe malfunctions and fall under the hypnotic spell of curling.
What is fun about the Winter Olympics?
Most enjoyment in watching sports is in criticising athletes who are vastly more talented than oneself.
What the Olympics can teach us about a better kind of nationalism
Orwell said international sports spawned “orgies of hatred.” The Olympics prove him wrong.
A Healthy, Gluten-Free Pizza Recipe Fit for an Olympian
Bobsledder Jazmine Fenlator follows a gluten-free diet... but loves pizza. Not wanting to give up one of her favorite foods, Fenlator created a cauliflower crust pizza recipe (borrowed from some tips she learned on Pinterest!).
An Olympic Daredevil’s Uphill Battle
U.S. Olympian John Daly gave up on skeleton, but decided to give the sport and its grueling training one more shot for the Pyeongchang Games.
Athletes with asthma tend to do better at the Winter Olympics
But it's not really clear where the advantage comes from.
Do the Winter Olympics Have a Future in a Warming World?
"In a warmer world, celebrating the second centennial of the Olympic Winter Games in 2124 would be challenging."
Gretchen Bleiler Exclusive Essay: The Olympic Dream Is Worth Fighting For
But it's an inspiring event where normal people live out extraordinary journeys, all fueled by one common goal. They move past their differences, push themselves further then they ever thought they could, and all the while they bring us with them; it is their light that inspires us to live our dreams and push ourselves to be great. And that should never be overshadowed.
Olympic figure skaters are super flexible. Here’s why you don’t need to be.
More flexibility isn’t necessarily a good thing.
What Cross-Country Skiing Reveals About the Human Condition
Every winter sport is — in addition to being an inspiring triumph of elegant majesty — also a total hassle. It is not easy to convert your soft, frail, squishy, warm human body into something that can survive in the hard world of frozen water.
Why the Olympics and Other Mass Gatherings Can Pose Major Global Health Threats
Mass gatherings often generate political momentum and resources, and they present an important opportunity to build sustainable and long-term health improvements in four areas: improved medical and hospital services; a strengthened public health system; an enhanced living environment; and increased health education and awareness. Amidst all the preparations for such a huge event, the health legacy may be one of the most important results.
Why Winter Endurance Athletes Compete In So Many Races
Athletes often are able to race again just days later in part because winter sports typically involve less pounding of the joints.
The Winter Olympics Are the Best Olympics
Although many of the winter events are entrancingly goofy—an essential element of Olympicsosity, especially as whimsy becomes harder to find in the increasingly somber world of professional sports—they are also blessedly easy to understand.
10 winter Olympic sports and the muscles they use
Here are 10 sports you’ll see at the Olympics and the kind of workout you can expect to get from each.
5 Reasons Tiny Norway Dominates The U.S. In Winter Olympic Medals
If you were told a Scandinavian country with a population of only five million was dominating the United States (population 324 million) in an international sports competition, what would be your first reaction?
Four of the World’s Best Olympians, as You’ve Never Seen Them Before
We’re introducing augmented reality, a new approach to digital storytelling. DESPITE ALL THE CAMERA ANGLES and slow-motion technology, watching sports on television is rarely just right. It can be numbing, more hypnotizing than intoxicating, to be passively cocooned on the couch as a mere spectator to miniaturized athletes squeezed through a two-dimensional plane. Television sands off the edges and scale of what makes the games so different from seeing them up close.
Olympic.org
The IOC was created on 23 June 1894; the 1st Olympic Games of the modern era opened in Athens on 6 April 1896; and the Olympic Movement has not stopped growing ever since. The IOC is committed to building a better world through sport. Our global activities extend far beyond the staging of the Games...
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