A former coach of the U.S. taekwondo team was banned from the sport this week for sexual misconduct. The ban of Jean Lopez, which is not yet permanent, was based on a report done by the U.S. Center for SafeSport, an organization created by the U.S. Olympic Committee to investigate sexual abuse. Lopez had coached the…
From designer handbags to preventing nuclear Armageddon, Ivanka Trump has truly rewritten the rules for success. Now if we could only get her a full Top Security clearance.
For a period of decades, USA Swimming fostered a “culture of sexual abuse” and ignored or covered up hundreds of cases of underage swimmers being sexually abused, according to a report by the Orange County Register. From the report:
Would it surprise you to learn that half the Winter Olympics team of Finland is knitting as a stress-reduction measure? No? I didn’t think so.
Dun dun dun dunnnn dun dun dun dun dun dunnnnn! Welcome to the second biannual (that means every two years) Jezebel Olympics, but first-ever Jezebel Winter Olympics: Cool Girl Edition, presented not by NBC, but by us, Jezebel.
There are many sports in the Winter Olympics, all with varying levels of sex appeal. Cross country skiing is on the lower end of the spectrum, while luge (lube...) is all the way at the top. But there is only one that makes me weep from three holes, and that’s ice dancing.
NBC’s tape-delayed Olympic opening ceremony broadcast, as usual, didn’t manage to air the entire event. While the Peacock Network continues to improve upon previous years’ heavy hand in editing, they still sliced off 23 minutes in the 14 hours that passed before it finally hit NBC’s airwaves. Here’s a breakdown of…
Organizers in Pyeongchang report 11 new cases of norovirus have been confirmed at the Games. That brings the total of people at the Olympics suffering from the highly contagious diarrhea-and-vomiting disease up to 139.
The 2018 Winter Olympics have begun and it’s time to cheer on our athletes. Trouble is, it’s hard to know what the heck’s going on in some of these events. Why are there so many people skating at once? What is curling exactly? Is ice dancing the same as figure skating? And, woah, does that lady have a gun?
Here it is, a home I never knew I wanted until I saw it: a giant, gaping, cube, painted Vantablack, in the middle of Pyeongchang. It is the color of my heart and it is beautiful.
On Wednesday, 2012 Olympic gold medalist McKayla Maroney filed a lawsuit in the Los Angeles County Superior Court against the United States Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics, claiming that officials had her sign a confidential financial settlement in an effort to keep her silent about her allegations that former…
Larry Nassar, the Michigan doctor who molested young gymnasts for decades including Olympic athletes like Gabby Douglas and McKayla Maroney, received 60 years in prison for federal child porn charges on Thursday.
Last year, three athletes set out to the hardware store to make history, and twelve months later it paid off because they did it! KweséESPN has reported that Seun Adigun, Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga, US-based Nigerian sprinters–who started out with just a homemade wooden sled–are now the first African bobsled…
Pole dancers who find themselves constantly having to explain how much strength and agility it takes to swing your human body around a pole without plummeting to the ground have been vindicated.
The U.S. Women’s Gymnastics team took their talents to the White House on Thursday and totally geeked out with POTUS and FLOTUS, as one does when there are only but a few months left of our time with them amidst the inferno of this election cycle.
Strong-as-hell swimming champion Katie Ledecky is from Washington D.C., and the Nationals invited her to come throw the first pitch tonight before their game against the Orioles. She arrived, as well she should, decked out in all five of her recently-acquired Olympic medals. Thankfully, Bryce Harper was kind enough to…
On Saturday night in Rio, British runner Lynsey Sharp finished sixth in the 800 meter race while Caster Semenya, from South Africa, took the gold. In the wake of her disappointing finish, Sharp bemoans that hyperandrogenic athletes like Semenya skew the competition.
Saori Yoshida is about as dominant as anyone in the international wrestling scene, having won three Olympic gold medals and 13 world championships. Women’s wrestling joined the modern Olympics in 2004, making Yoshida the only gold medalist ever in the 53 kilogram class. The Japanese wrestler had never earned anything…
Last week, American swimmer Ryan Lochte shared a harrowing tale with the international media. On the way back from a party celebrating the Rio Olympics, the story went, he and three others were pulled over and violently robbed at gunpoint. In the ensuing days, Brazilian officials have raised doubts about their story.…
