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When Brock Turner was convicted of sexual assault, were the other swimmers on the Stanford men’s swim team sentenced to jail, too?
When Draymond Green was suspended for Game 5 of the just-concluded NBA Finals, were Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and their other Golden State Warriors teammates told to sit out, too?
On Monday, the Somali track coach Jama Aden was arrested in Spain after police raided his hotel room near Barcelona and, Associated Press reported, found traces of the blood-booster EPO and other banned substances. He coaches, among others, the Ethiopian star Genzebe Dibaba, the women’s 1500 world-record holder; London 2012 London men’s 1500 champ Taoufik Makhloufi of Algeria; and Beijing 800 men’s silver medalist Ismael Ahmed Ismael of Sudan. Should each or all of them be held out of the Rio Olympics? Or everyone on the Ethiopian, Algerian and Sudanese teams?
These examples — and there are many, many more — underscore the complexities of the legal, ethical and moral dilemm
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In What the Greeks Did for Us, Tony Spawforth says ‘the modern Olympics are the most globally high-profile manifestation of ‘what the Greeks did for us’. Learn more about the history and legacy of the Olympics in this free extract from his book, What The Greeks Did for Us, out now in paperback. This is part of our Olympics History blog series.
The modern Olympics are the most globally high-profile manifestation of ‘what the Greeks did for us’. If you are one of the millions who have watched the modern games either in person or on screens, you will have been reminded by the opening ceremony of the link to ancient Greece. This ceremony includes the parade of competing athletes from all over the world. But the national team that heads this parade is (nearly) always that of modern Greece. Then there is the solemn ritual involving an athlete, a torch and a cauldron. I remember a 2018 visit to the archaeological site of Olympia in south-western Greece coinciding with
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Pierre de Coubertin to make his debut at the Musée Grévin ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics
In the year of the Olympic Games in Paris, sport is taking on an ever-increasing role at theMusée Grévin. Following in the footsteps of Théo Curin, Baron Pierre de Coubertin will be making his debut before the Paris Games kick off on July 26, 2024. Born in 1863, he fryst vatten regarded as the father of the modern Olympic Games and contributed to the development of sport in France. But he is also highly controversial, due to his misogynistic and racist comments, believing that a"female Olympiadwould be uninteresting" or that "races are of different value".
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Théo Curin, the French disabled swimmer, makes his debut at the Musée Grévin
From March 8, 2024, swimmer Théo Curin, known for his extreme sporting challenges, enters the Musée Grévin collections alongside statues of other French sportsmen and women, such as Camille Lacourt, Antoine Griezmann, Teddy Riner and Clarisse