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The History And Value Of Olympic Gold Medals

Are Olympic Gold Medals Actually Gold?

Are Olympic gold medals actually gold? Throughout both ancient and modern-Olympic history, the answer to this question has varied.

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Simone Biles captures historic eighth title at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships

The four-time Olympic gold medallist broke a 90-year-old record she previously shared with Alfred Jochim.

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Simone Biles back on top with all-around win at the 2023 U.S. Classic

The 2016 Olympic all-around champion competed in her first competition since winning team silver and balance beam bronze at Tokyo 2020.

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Pre-Olympics swimming test competition in Seine cancelled due to pollution

The pre-Olympics swimming test competition due to take place Sunday in the Seine in Paris has been cancelled due to pollution of the river, the international swimming federation said after analysis of the latest water samples.

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Simone Biles Says She's Managing Her Mental Health as She Returns to Gymnastics with 'Lots of Therapy'

Simone Biles is sharing how she’s prioritizing her mental health as she re-enters the world of gymnastics.

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Skateboarding: Tracing the sport’s journey from streets to the Olympics

After grabbing eyeballs in Tokyo 2020, skateboarding will feature at the next two Olympics, Paris 2024 and LA 2028.

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Eight-time Olympian Oksana Chusovitina not listed among 2023 World Championships qualifiers

The artistic gymnastics veteran appears to be skipping the global event after missing out on an all-around qualification spot in June.

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'It's OK not being OK': Even the most successful stars of sport face mental health challenges

Canada's Bianca Andreescu, Kelsey Mitchell open up about mental health struggles

Elite athletes are known for being tough as nails, focused and determined to overcome all obstacles. Having said that, athletes are not indomitable. It can be tough to reconcile that even the most successful stars of sport grapple with their mental health.

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US law passed to stop doping nets its 1st guilty plea

A man charged with providing banned substances to Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare and another athlete pleaded guilty Monday, marking the first conviction under a landmark U.S. law designed to target wide-ranging doping schemes across the globe.

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Ukraine faces Olympic weightlifting ban after world champion’s doping violation

Ukraine has had a third weightlifting doping violation since the end of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and faces expulsion from Paris 2024.

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What went wrong in Peter Bol’s doping case? A sport integrity expert explains

Lawyers for Australian 800-metre star Peter Bol say allegations the runner engaged in doping should be dropped after two independent labs found no evidence he used a banned substance. Bol has always strongly denied the allegations. So what went wrong?

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Companies charged as part of Tokyo Olympic bid-rigging scandal

TOKYO -- The Tokyo Olympic bid-rigging scandal widened Tuesday, with Japanese advertising giant Dentsu and five other companies charged by Tokyo district prosecutors.

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Olympian Peter Bol has provisional doping suspension for EPO lifted after B-sample does not match A-sample

Sport Integrity Australia has said it is still investigating Australian Olympian Peter Bol despite his provisional suspension for doping being lifted.

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Tokyo 2020 bid rigging suspects awarded over $300 million in contracts for Olympics

Approximately JPY40 billion (£249 million/$307 million/€283 million) worth of contracts were given to firms allegedly involved in bidding corruption for the re-arranged 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games test events and competitions in Tokyo, it has been claimed.

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Japan makes arrests on bribery suspicions in Tokyo Olympics

A former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee board member and three people from a clothing company that was a surprise sponsor of the 2020 Games were arrested on bribery suspicions Wednesday.

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Doping sleuths keep sunscreen from burning track stars in Eugene

Shortly after last year’s Olympics, the urine samples of some six dozen athletes came back with traces of a banned stimulant.

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Suni Lee finds support at Auburn after Olympics 'impostor syndrome'

Sunisa Lee curls up in a chair after practice one afternoon last month, her knees pulled tightly against her chest.

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Russian swimmer Rylov claims he is being targeted by FINA due to Olympic success

Double Olympic champion Evgeny Rylov of Russia has claimed that he is being targeted by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) because he is the "world face of swimming".

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Disgusting and utterly unacceptable': Female athletes main target of online abuse during Tokyo Olympics

World Athletics has found that female athletes were the target of 87% of all online abuse during the Tokyo Olympics.

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Tokyo 2020 venues scheduled to reopen for public use

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) has announced plans to reopen three of the eight new permanent venues used at the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020. Another Tokyo 2020 venue, the Yumenoshima Park Archery Field, has been open since 31 October.

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