The reckoning has finally come for the sports organizations that have played footsie with autocratic nations. And not just FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, but for the Premier League, Formula One, and any sports league that has cashed checks from questionable international sources while pretending… Read more…
The reckoning has finally come for the sports organizations that have played footsie with autocratic nations. And not just FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, but for the Premier League, Formula One, and any sports league that has cashed checks from questionable international sources while pretending… Read more…
The U.S. Women’s National Team has spent its entire existence not just battling opponents from abroad, but its own soccer federation. After a nearly three-year-long legal battle, U.S. Soccer settled in court with the U.S. women’s soccer team. The settlement, which was agreed to six years after five players, Megan… Read more…
A cross-country skier from Finland had a chilling realization in his run at the Winter Olympics in Beijing this past weekend. Finnish Olympian Remi Lindholm was enjoying his Olympic experience — the first of his career — when he showed up on Saturday for the men’ s 50km free start cross country race. The event […]
Kamila Valieva‘s controversial time at the Beijing Olympics is over. The 15-year-old figure skater competing for the Russian Olympic Committee‘s team had been at the center of a very controversial situation after being allowed to continue to skate even after testing positive for a banned substance. The International Olympic Committee had responded to the controversy by previously announcing that […]
The figure skating community is up in arms over Russian skater Kamila Valieva‘s failed drug test. Of course, as we’ve been reporting, the 15-year-old skater has been allowed to compete at the Beijing Olympics despite having recently tested positive for a banned substance. On Tuesday, Valieva took to the ice in Beijing for her highly controversial and […]
OMG! Safe to say Simone Biles just had the best Valentine’s Day ever! The Olympic gold medalist and her beau Jonathan Owens are officially on their way to tie the knot after the football player popped the question on Monday night!! Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, Simone couldn’t help but gush about the romantic evening […]
American track and field star Sha’Carri Richardson is RIGHTFULLY calling out what appears to be a major double standard at this year’s Winter Olympics. And we’re here for her take! As Perezcious readers will recall, Richardson is the wildly talented American track and field star who was banned from last year’s Tokyo Olympics after a test came back […]
Fact, an American team primarily made up of NCAA players took down a veteran Canadian team 4-2 in the preliminary round of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing late Friday night. Read more…
Lindsey Jacobellis’ gold medal, 16 years after she stumbled to silver in Turin, and after three other Olympic disappointments, was a good enough story on its own , but now it’s even better. Read more…