The Climate Games: Sporting Achievements Overshadowed by Broken Climate Records
During the 2024 Olympic Games, 10 world records and 32 Olympic records were broken. As countries celebrate their victories and ...
Tag: Olympics
Does the Value of the Olympics Still Justify the Cost?
A country doesn’t host the Olympic Games to make a profit. So why do they bother? South Korea held the ...
Paris Olympics: The Most High-Risk Games in History?
The Paris Olympic Games will be one of the most high-risk in history owing to a combination of internal strife ...
Why Fewer Cities Are Game to Host the Olympics
The way cities host the Olympic Games is changing. Staging the event has become such a burden, fewer cities are ...
Avoiding a Terrorist Repeat at the Paris Olympics
The Summer Olympics will be held in Paris from July 26 to August 11, 2024, at a time when, once ...
Covid-19 A Precursor For Sports?
As sports fans around the world rejoice and high-level sports once again grace our television screens, thoughts of how our ...
From Where I Stand – Flor Isava-Fonseca
EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS PIECE IS AUTHORED BY UN WOMEN AS PART OF THE SERIES “FROM WHERE I STAND”, WHICH CAPTURES PEOPLES STORIES ...
2016: The Year in Review and What to Expect in 2017
As the New Year approaches, numerous columnists and media personalities have been vocal in their lamentations of past year. 'Watch ...
Olympic 2016 Preview: The Zika Virus
Amidst the alarming findings of illegal doping and the political turbulence brewing in the Brazilian capital, reservations toward the 2016 ...
The Potential of Youth: Germany’s Sustainable Success
Titles, triumphs and tears. The German national team stands for major success and huge emotions, for sporting excellence and excellent ...
Zika Virus Highlights Flaws in Public Health Approaches in the Americas – Part 1
Zika's exponential spread has much of the Americas panicking about how to handle this new epidemic. Countries from Brazil to ...
Fitness is a Privilege: Interview with Olympic weightlifter Camille Brown
Camille Brown is a former Division 1 softball player from the California Polytechnic State University and is now a national ...
