Olympics

‘Train hard and prove these losers wrong!’ – Women’s sports and the 2024 Olympics

August 16, 2024 By Taryn Fivek

VIDEO: Were the 2024 Olympics another battle in the war on women's sports, a case of trans panic, or both? For the right wing, the answer was all of the above.

Daily Worker 1936: Black athletes embarrass Hitler at Nazi Olympics

July 26, 2024 By Joseph North

Hitler hoped the Games would showcase Aryan racial superiority, but the Fuhrer’s plans were ruined by Black athletes like Jesse Owens.

Using Olympics as excuse, Macron again delays appointing Popular Front premier

July 26, 2024 By Combined Sources

Communist lawmakers trash Macron’s tactics as unconstitutional.

Lessons in anti-fascist and social justice solidarity in sports

June 3, 2022 By Len Yannielli

It instantly became iconic. Two young Black men stood ramrod straight with heads bowed and arms raised with clenched, black-gloved fists.

There were two Olympics in Beijing — the real one, and a media fantasyland

February 22, 2022 By Ian Goodrum

There was no end to complaints from incensed U.S. journalists who felt personally insulted by an invitation to the biggest sporting event of the season.