Olympic Games
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Health & Medicine
Olympians shouldn’t pay a punishing mental price for gold
As we head into the Paris Olympics, the mental health of elite athletes is finally becoming less stigmatised and that can only be a good thing
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Health & Medicine
The precision of vision for Olympic gymnasts and divers
Elite athletes like Simone Biles and Greg Louganis spend years training their bodies, brains and vision to give peak Olympic performances
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Politics & Society
Opinion
Is this summer a moment of truth for France?
As we head into the Paris Olympics, has the dream been compromised, even ruined, by other upheavals in France’s fevered summer?
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Politics & Society
What does it take to run faster, throw further, jump higher?
Many of us are aware of anti-doping regulations in elite sport, but there are also unregulated non-doping performance-enhancing strategies that give an inequitable advantage to some athletes
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Politics & Society
The symbolism of the Olympic Games
With indications that it may have to accept the inevitable, why has Japan been adamant that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games should go ahead in the face of COVID-19?
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Politics & Society
Will the Winter Olympics ease tensions on the Korean peninsula?
The world’s attention is turning to South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympics, and North Korea’s participation may be cause for cautious optimism
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Sciences & Technology
Yes, Aussie swimmers ‘choked’ in Rio
Australia likes to compare itself to the best of the best in the pool, so why did Team USA leave us trailing in the Olympic pool?
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Health & Medicine
The sexism Games
The Olympic ideal is about a competition of equals, but no one told a media for whom gender makes some athletes more equal than others
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Sciences & Technology
The shape for speed
Meet Australian swimmers Cameron McEvoy and Kyle Chalmers – one is lean, the other is big. How their different body shapes will decide the 100m freestyle showdown at the Rio Olympics.