In 2024, exactly one hundred years after Paris last hosted the Summer Olympics, France will once again welcome the Games. With an economy...

This past month, the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) and the 2022 Winter Olympics have dominated the world of sports media. Not only are...

August 7, 2016. Weightlifter Hsu Shu-ching is on top of the world. After lifting 100 kg (220 pounds) in Rio, she waits for Olympic...

Kim Jong-un turned thirty-four on January 8, 2018, but the international community waited until February to present him with the best...

When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) gathered in Kuala Lumpur in 2015 to select the host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics, it...

At the end of September, President Obama hosted the 2016 Rio Olympic team at the White House, hailing the athletes as American role...

Mauricio Santoro is a human rights advisor for Amnesty International in Brazil. He is also a political science professor at Cândido...

The Sochi Games have closed, and I am sure many citizens of Russia are wondering: was it worth it? The Olympics are expensive and...

As journalists began to arrive in Sochi, Russia for the 2014 Winter Olympics, it became apparent that the venues and infrastructure were...

In 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handed her Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, a red button marked “reset” (peregruzka) to...

The Sochi Olympics were the most expensive Olympic Games in history and, by some estimates, more expensive than all other Winter Olympics...

If the European Union does not want Turkey, then why should we want to be a part of the EU? Such was the refrain of the Roberts College...