Olympics

A sense of doubt had plagued the sport since Biles’s withdrawal from the Tokyo Games. The team’s success in Paris should definitively quash it.

The preëminent swimmer is unique not only for winning races by body lengths but also in her emotional and psychological approach.

The New Yorker’s sports writer on the unexpected venues of the Paris Games.

A French twist on the opening ceremony’s torch relay.

The Games have never lived up to all their ideals—some of which were dubious to begin with. And yet this year’s iteration, for all its flaws, has already inspired some positive change.

It used to be assumed that a gymnast’s peak came around sixteen years of age. So why will the Olympic team be stocked with women in their twenties?

A track star’s gender transition in the nineteen-thirties, and the response of Olympic officials, foreshadowed today’s culture-war battles over gender and sports.

Diggins is the first American to take an individual gold medal in Nordic skiing.

There should be a medal for making it through the fall.

In Bafic’s documentary short, sprinting is not just a sport but a means of self-expression.

A visibly rattled Putin said, “Anyone who attacks Russia’s ability to dope its athletes is striking at one of our nation’s grandest traditions.”

The Olympic figure-skating champion on competing at the Beijing Games amid a doping scandal, and why Team U.S.A. members returned home with empty boxes.

For a century, women have been held back on the ice tracks. Now they’re gaining speed. 

The Winter Games are constrained not only by the pandemic but also by the Communist Party’s determination to suppress any challenge that could test its grip.

As Xi Jinping clashes with the West, China’s leadership is using the Olympics to project national unity and strength.

The twenty-two-year-old seized the moment on ice skating’s biggest stage.

Let the games begin!

China has long been fascinated with Olympic glory, but the run-up to the Winter Games has been beset by extraordinary pressures from the realms of politics, diplomacy, and public health.

“They push buttons,” says Timothy Snyder, who takes the long view of Russian aggression. “What button of ours are they pushing here?” Plus, Guillermo del Toro on the appeal of noir.

With COVID-19 restrictions in place and a diplomatic boycott planned by many nations, who will watch the 2022 Beijing Games?