At Nike, having a building named in one’s honor is among the company’s highest and most lasting tributes. The Salazar building, one of the company’s earliest such buildings, is tucked ...

Paris 2024 has begun with a spectacular celebration of the traditional Olympic values of excellence, respect and friendship... and selfishness, irrationality and deception, according to Nike. One ...

For more than 100 years, the Olympics have been used as a platform for political and human rights protest – both by athletes and by entire countries. But as the Tokyo Games begin, there is still ...

Last month at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Eugene, Ore., the sprinter Noah Lyles wore a black glove and raised his fist in the air when his name was announced before a 100-meter race.

From Peter O’Connor raising an Irish flag to Tommie Smith and John Carlos' Black Power salute, the Olympics has a rich protest history.

The Tokyo Olympics Has Relaxed Its Rules On Athlete Protests — To A Point Gestures of protest have already begun. But exactly what's allowed under the International Olympic Committee's new rules ...

For months, polls have shown most Japanese citizens don't want the Olympics in Japan. Cost overruns and a COVID-19 surge have led to street protests. Now activists are facing the games' inevitability.

TOKYO – The Olympic flame hadn’t been lit here before athletes took a knee to protest social injustice. With women’s soccer competition beginning before the opening ceremony of the Tokyo ...

Ad Policy. A protester at the Counter-Opening of the Olympics event in Paris on July 25, 2024. (Jules Boykoff) On the night before the opening of the 2024 Paris Olympics, several thousand ...