Out of the dustiness of Olympic politics came a pair of related thoughts this week. They both went to the subject of blood.

Olympic medals are displayed on a custom-designed trunk by Louis Vuitton at the Champions Park at Trocadero during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. © 2024 ...

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If you take the head/basket off a mic you can remove the wind sock. Why remove the wind sock, you might ask? Well to wash it. I got around to actually doing that and let me tell you there was a lot of ...

Former Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the Olympic review committee has "already decided" to build a new stadium at Victoria Park for the Brisbane 2032 Games. The LNP government is ...

Last year's Paris Olympics may have been a resounding success but there’s been a snag: some medals are falling apart. More than 100 athletes have complained to the International Olympic ...

All that glitters is not gold — and, as some athletes who competed in the Paris Olympics are finding out, even gold can lose its luster. Since the 2024 Olympic Games last August, some Olympians ...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended the IBA - which ran the Olympic Games' boxing programme - in 2019 because of concerns over its finances, governance, ethics, refereeing and judging.

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Germany's leading source of electric power generation got a big boost in 2024, according to latest industry figures. Regulators approved more than 2,400 new onshore wind turbines with a total ...

The designers of the medals for the 2024 Olympics in Paris have spoken out after a number of them were handed back by the winning athletes for being in poor condition. Team USA skateboarder Nyjah ...

The fastest ice in the world is on borrowed time. Calgary's Olympic Oval is a legacy of the 1988 Winter Games in the city and the oldest of three covered speed skating ovals in Canada. The ...