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When staying in the Olympic Village during this year's games, US athletes were shockedto discover that they had access to free healthcare.

Rights Fight

"I'll fight for universal healthcare."

American Athletes Radicalized By Free Healthcare at the Paris Olympics

The safety of the Seine River continues to be called into question after a practice session for marathon swimmers on Tuesday was canceled.

The Runs

Developments

"It's not so much about what's in there. It's the quantity of what's in there."

Olympics Cancels Practice Session in River Seine After Swimmers Fall Ill

Belgium's Olympic team announced it had forfeited a competition after one of its athletes became sick after swimming in the Seine River.

Don't Drink It

"While swimming under the bridge, I felt and saw things that we shouldn’t think about too much."

Olympic Athlete Hospitalized After Swimming in Seine River

YouTuber-turned-boxer Logan Paul has made the surprise move of apologizing — sort of — for being an asshole.

Biggest Losers

"I might be guilty of spreading misinformation."

Logan Paul Issues Half-Hearted Apology For Transphobic Tirade Against a Cisgender Olympian

As the Olympics began to kick off, a paralyzed tennis player carried the Olympic flame through Paris while wearing a robotic exoskeleton.

Righteous Relay

These self-balancing exoskeletons are making their way stateside, too. 

Paralyzed Tennis Player Carries Olympic Torch Using Robotic Exoskeleton

Grindr has, it seemed, block geolocation and search for the Olympic Village for this year's Paris summer games. 

Grind Your Gears

How you gonna date from outside the club?

It Looks Like Grindr Has Blocked the Paris Olympic Village From Search

A new version of the Olympics Games that allows athletes to use performance enhancing drugs recently scored funding from Peter Thiel.

Roid Rage

What could possibly go wrong?

Peter Thiel Funding New Olympics Where Athletes Can Take Performance Enhancing Drugs

Climate change and variability created a need for the first 100 percent fake manmade snow at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Snow No More

Okay, that's pretty dark.

All the Snow at the Beijing Winter Olympics Is Artificially Made

How does one hold the Winter Olympics when "winter" as we knew it is changing for the worse?

Olympic Bummer

Beijing is shipping in snow because it's just not cold enough.

The Winter Olympics Have a Problem: They're Being Ruined by Climate Change

The first Olympic route would ferry passengers between the  Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Le Bourget airports, and a second would link two Parisian suburbs. About 30 manufacturers answered the call to test out various parts of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or eVTOLs.

Air Ferry 

"Everything is falling into place."

Paris Will Use Electric Flying Cars to Get Passengers to the Olympics

While the world’s best athletes compete for medals in Tokyo, a different kind of competition happened as ISS astronauts held their own Olympic games. 

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