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Chinese swimmers who tested positive for the prohibited drug trimetazidine (TMZ) ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics have been given permission to participate in the Paris Olympics this year. This has led to disapproval from anti-doping bodies.
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The Super Falcons secured a spot in the women’s football event of the 2024 Olympics in Paris after playing a goalless draw with South Africa at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria on Tuesday, The PUNCH reports. Maintaining a 1-0 lead from the first leg in Abuja on Friday, the Falcons, who have never lost…

The Olympic Park announced this week that the athletic sports complex would remain closed for four to six months due to a fire on March 21.

Banyana Banyana goalkeeper Kaylin Swart believes it’s helpful for them to start by playing against Nigeria in the final round of the Olympics qualifiers, aiming to use the probably unfriendly atmosphere as motivation to secure qualification for the Olympics. Banyana will face the Super Falcons on Friday in Abuja, and then play against them at […]

The International Olympic Committee denounced Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, stating that the Russian government had violated the Olympic Truce.

In the early 1950s, the U.S. Air Force Supply Depot in Ohio was looking for a faster way to store and fetch information from its sizable inventory. They had 50,000 items in their records and wanted instant access to each one of them. The dominant storage technologies of the time—punch cards, magnetic tape and magnetic […]