Man Discovers That Russian Women Don't Want To Bang Russian Guys
Ever wanted to read an-almost 1,000 word piece about how women in Russia are totally horny for foreign men? Well. Today's your lucky day.
Meryl Davis and Charlie White Win Olympic Gold, Celebrate With Violin
Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the gold medal in ice dancing at the Sochi Olympics on Monday but they assure their fans that they weren’t always so graceful.
Pussy Riot Members Detained and Released in Sochi Hotel 'Theft' Case
About three hours after Nadezhda Tolokonnikov said she and bandmate Maria Alyokhina were arrested in Sochi, the duo along with three others with whom they were arrested were released from police custody, donning their balaclavas and chanting an anti-Putin song as they walked out of the station.
NBC Reporter Accused of Badgering Bode Miller Until He Cried
An NBC reporter is accused of pushing a post-game interview with U.S. Olympic skier Bode Miller too far, eventually causing the athlete to break down in tears over repeated questions about the death of his brother.
Behold the Full Spectrum of Olympic Emotions
SOCHI, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 16: Alisa Agafonova (2L) and Alper Ucar (2R) of Turkey wait for their score during the Figure Skating Ice Dance Short Dance on day 9 of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Iceberg Skating Palace on February 16, 2014 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
All that Olympian Sex at Sochi Isn’t Affecting Athletic Performance
The Olympics, as we all know, are really just a sex summit put on by the fittest human specimens. It's like an orgy of Greek deities peppered with the occasional slalom or hockey exhibition. Otherwise, the Olympic Village is basically bonetown and its residents are the enervated athletes that somehow hope to win gold…
Author and New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly has been drawing delightful sketches of scenes from the Sochi Olympics and posting them on Twitter. At left, slopestyle skier and WuTang fan Henrik Harlaut; after the jump, a few more animated athletes.
This Profile of Evgeni Plushenko's Wife Is Batshit Crazy Amazing
If you thought you liked figure skater Evgeni Plushenko, just wait until you meet his wife.
Nooooo: Living Treasure Evgeni Plushenko Drops Out of Olympics
Bad news, Olympic watchers: Russian sex bomb figure skater Evgeni Plushenko, that jumping, flexing totem to modern masculinity, suddenly dropped out of competition just minutes before taking the ice in Sochi today due to injury. Which means that, for him, these Olympic games are over.
Michael Martinez Is the Olympics' First Filipino Figure Skater
He's also the first Southeast Asian figure skater to represent at the Winter Olympics, is only 17 years old, and benefits from a feel-good story about taking up skating after asthma attacks disqualified him from competing in other sports, as well as relying on donations from friends and family to be able to afford…
Russia Bans Adoption by Single People Too
The Russian government doesn't seem to care about bad press – or maybe they think the Opening Ceremony went so well it doesn't matter what they do. The Kremlin has tightened restrictions on a law passed in 2013 that made it illegal for same sex couples adopt Russian children.
Sage Kotsenburg Isn't the Lochte We Want. He's the Lochte We Deserve.
The 70's had Mark Spitz, the 80's had Bruce Jenner and Carl Lewis, the 90's had Alberto Tomba, the 2000's had the Australian swim team and Apolo Ohno, and in 2012, the Olympic gods blessed us with Ryan Lochte. But pickings for the Sochi Games' Unofficial Sexy Male Olympian are decidedly more meh. In a post-Lochte era,…
Olympic athletes, they're just like us: American snowboarder and new gold medalist Jamie Anderson has found a way to pass the time. "Tinder in the Olympic Village is next level," she told Us Weekly. "There are some cuties on there."
Canadians in Sochi Can Get Free Beer With Their Passports
Thanks to some help from a beer company, Canadian athletes and their friends at Canada Olympic House in Sochi can treat themselves to free beer. Yes, that's right. Free. Freaking. Beer. All they have to do to get is scan their passports in a vending machine.
Here's How Olympic Skiers Find Jeans that Fit
Skiers tend to develop powerful butts and thighs in order to get down the slopes as quickly and forcefully as possible. This, however, does make it hard to find a pair of jeans that fit well.
Here's Jon Stewart's Excellent Rundown of the Many Disasters of Sochi
Thus far, the 2014 Olympic Games have been dominated by talk not of the incredible physical prowess on display from athletes around the world, but of the many failures of host city Sochi, Russia. Unsafe arena conditions, Bob Costas' eye infection, stray dogs crashing the opening ceremonies, hotels with construction so…
A Brief History of Homoeroticism (and Denial) in the Olympics
Now that the Olympics are off to a wobbly, terrifying, sans-plumbing start, plenty of public figures are taking the opportunity to rain vicious side-eye upon Putin's draconian anti-gay propaganda law.
Why I don't support a boycott of the Sochi Olympics
For the months leading up to Sochi, there has been a widespread call to boycott the Olympics. I'd certainly say, as a Queer person, while I am invested in the civil rights of LGBTQ people (including the appalling treatment of them in Russia), I'm not sure a boycott from western countries is something I could ever…
U.S. Luger Kate Hansen's Beyonce Warm Up Dance is Perfection
These dance moves from a U.S. athlete are the best. Except to one cranky NBC sportscaster, apparently.
Evgeni Plushenko Figure Skating to Ginuwine's 'Pony' Is Perfect
Evgeni Plushenko, the cocky thatch-headed Russian who most in the know about figure skating would agree is currently the best male figure skater in the world, has a history of performing athletic, colorful routines. Turns out, his most notorious silly routine is even better when remixed with Ginuwine's notorious sex…
