Olympics News
- NewsKristine Solomon
The Most Stylish Olympians Are the Female Golfers
It turns out — as lifestyle commentators Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir learned — it’s the female golfers who are killing the fashion game at this year’s Games in Rio.
- NewsJenna Birch
What Drives the Connection Between Eating Disorders and Certain Sports?
Dara Torres, celebrating a record time in the 2008 U.S. Olympic trials, battled bulimia in college. “I was extremely dark and moody,” she writes. “Pretty much all I thought about during college was what I ate, what I wanted to eat, what other people ate, what I’d need to do to get rid of the calories I’d ingested, how much exercise I got, and how I would look in my swimsuit when I mounted the blocks.” While Torres has now recovered from her eating disorder from college days, when she was one of
- NewsJenna Birch
How Saudi Arabia’s Sarah Attar Completed the Rio Marathon Covered Head to Toe
Saudi-Arabian marathon runner Sarah Attar finished the Olympic marathon in three hours and 14 seconds, roughly 52 minutes behind the winner. Covered head-to-toe in conservative clothing to honor her religious beliefs, Attar spent that whole 26.2 miles dripping in sweat to break barriers for a subset of female athletes around the world. This is Attar’s second Olympics, but Sunday marked her first marathon appearance.
- NewsKristine Solomon
Special K Is Putting Simone Biles on Its Cereal Box
The U.S. women’s gymnastics team will grace Gold Medal Edition boxes of Special K Red Berries cereal, with Simone Biles on one side, the "Final Five" on the other.
- NewsKristine Solomon
Gelatin Is the Secret to the Olympic Synchronized Swimmers’ Perfect Hair
It isn’t just their graceful routines and perfectly coordinated moves that have been mesmerizing Olympic viewers the world over. The synchronized swimmers of Team USA also seem to have the kind of hair that defies the elements.
- NewsYahoo Style Contributors
As Women Succeed at Olympics, Commentators Fail to Discuss Their Success Without Sexism
One hundred and sixteen years ago, the second-ever modern Olympic games was held in Paris — and women were allowed then to compete in only three sports: tennis, croquet and golf. Because while commentators and journalists seem to be able to discuss the male athletes and their achievements at the Games without being able to constantly discuss their gender — indeed, I have yet to see a headline boasting, Cisgender Male Swimmer Takes Home Most Medals Ever — the struggle continues to be all too rea
