Tag: Olympics

Sebastian Smith, a member of the Drexel Men’s Swimming and Diving Team, qualified for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swim Team Trials earlier this month. To…

In a ruling that transcends any sporting precedent, the Court of Arbitration for Sport went against the appeal of two-time Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya…

With the 2016 Rio Olympics now underway, the television screens of sports fans worldwide are filled with images of uplifting victories, crushing defeats and shining…

It’s impossible to escape the Olympics. Even for someone like me, who spends 95 percent of my time pretending sports don’t exist, there’s still that…

Coming into the 31st Olympiad, glamorous headlines abounded: the return of a changed Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt’s quest for immortality, the United States gymnastics team’s…

If anyone has read any of my pieces before, there’s one thing that is hard to miss in my portfolio: I love basketball. During my…

With the Sochi Winter Olympics less than a month away, it seems as if people cannot keep themselves from offending each other. The most recent…

Rarely does a country have the opportunity to host a FIFA World Cup, and rarely does a country have the opportunity to host the Summer…

I’ve always had a special affinity for London. Most Drexel students grow up loving or loathing New York, but I’ve always bypassed our neighbor along…

Spanning 19 days, the 2012 Summer Olympics brought the best athletes from 204 nations to London to compete in front of a global audience. 85…