Blog Profile / Keeping Score: Olympics
| URL : | http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/category/olympics-2/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Sports / Olympics | |
| Posts on Regator: | 20 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.4 | |
| Archived Since: | May 16, 2012 | |
Blog Post Archive
Usain Bolt, Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah Confirmed for London Anniversary Games
Happy Anniversary, London. The 2012 Olympic Games were a joyous occasion for those lucky enough to enjoy the sports and sunshine on offer. Home crowds witnessed wonderful performances from the host nation, and many others, and for 17 magical days, it felt as if London was the global capital of sport. Show More Summary
Rio 2016: Track And Field Venue Closed Indefinitely
Rio de Janeiro’s monumental task of staging two major international sporting events in as many years has hit a snag as one of the main athletics venues for the 2016 Olympics has been shut indefinitely for repairs. The Joao HavelangeShow More Summary
Photos: Oscar Pistorius On and Off the Track
The 26-year-old South African athlete, Oscar Pistorius, known as the ‘Blade Runner,’ has had an eventful life, which has now been rocked by the charge that he murdered his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius rejects the charge.
How Can Wrestling Fight For Its Olympic Survival?
Henry Cejudo was silent on the other end of the phone line, shocked, really, beyond belief. He was about to head to church near his home in the Phoenix area Tuesday morning when I relayed the news: the International Olympic Committee had voted wrestling, the sport in which he won a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics, off the 2020 Olympic program. Show More Summary
Will Lindsey Vonn Make It Back For The Sochi Olympics?
About a year before the start of the Sochi Olympics, it appeared that America’s most decorated skier might be on the shelf for those games. After Lindsey Vonn took an awful tumble at a ski race in Austria on Tuesday, her return to the mountain was the furthest priority. Show More Summary
IOC Strips 4 Medals from 2004 Athens Olympics
(LAUSANNE, Switzerland) — The IOC has stripped medals from four athletes caught doping at the 2004 Athens Olympics — including one gold medalist — and postponed a decision to revoke Lance Armstrong’s bronze from the 2000 Sydney Games. Show More Summary
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TIME At The Olympics
Over the next month or so, you may notice very infrequent posts on Keeping Score. The reason: TIME’s sports coverage will be focusing on the 2012 London Olympics. So for dispatches from the Games, and stories on the history, culture, economics, science, and other aspects of the Olympics, plus photo galleries, Top 10 lists and [...]
TIME Olympics Blog: London Calling
Programming note: today, TIME has launched an Olympics blog, which will feature daily coverage of the lead-up to the London Olympics, as well as dispatches from the Games themselves. You can find the blog here. Leading it off: a worldwide tour of “50 Olympians to Watch” this summer. Over the next six weeks, we’ll be [...]
Dead Heat: How The U.S. Track And Field Trials Got All Muddled
First, some numbers. 2,077 1,110 639 0 Those are the number of words on the books explaining tie-breaking procedures for, respectively, Major League Baseball, the NFL, the NBA, and U.S. Olympic sprinting (The baseball word count may have changed now that the playoffs will expand this year, but you see the point). As the U.S. [...]
Dara Torres: Oldest Olympic Hopeful at Swim Trials
Dara Torres says there is one major difference between training for the Olympics in 2008 and getting prepped to make the U.S. Olympic swim team this year — hormones. At 45, she is the oldest U.S. swimmer to show up at Olympic Trials, hoping to earn a berth to London. She’s not menopausal yet she [...]
Ashton Eaton Sets World Record in Decathlon
Meter by meter, Ashton Eaton kept swallowing up real estate on a track that has always felt like home.
Dream Team Documentary: Film Sheds Light On ’92 Olympic Legends
For years, there were only stories about the Dream Team losing to college kids and playing historic scrimmages against each other. In NBA TV's new documentary, those stories are finally backed up through rare, never-before-seen footage. Show More Summary
London Olympics: Opening Ceremony to Star Cows, Sheep
Well aware it would be a tough slog to match Beijing in terms of glitz and sheer spectacle, filmmaker Danny Boyle has decided to keep it real during the London Olympic opening ceremony. Boyle, the creative director for the event, has cast real farmyard animals—including two goats, three cows, 10 chickens, 10 ducks and 70 [...]
Occupy Olympics: Why Protesters Want to Disrupt the London Games
The Olympic Games are viewed by most people as a symbol of unity and peace — a time when countries put aside their conflicts and differences to compete in obscure contests like the javelin throw and modern pentathlon. In other circles, however, the Olympics are viewed as “an £11-billion, taxpayer-funded ad campaign,” a “10-day corporate [...]
Why U.S. Gymnast Shawn Johnson Gave Up Bid for Second Olympics
Most people wouldn’t consider retiring at age 20, but Shawn Johnson has been a competitive gymnast for practically her entire life, ever since she took her first swing from the bars at the gym as a three year old. Johnson turned her rambunctious energy into an enviable athletic career that earned her seven world and Olympic [...]
How An Olympian Raises The Bar For Plus-Sized Women
In this week’s issue of TIME, we profile Sarah Robles, the top-ranked female Olympic weightlifter in the U.S. (The story is available on newsstands June 1, and to TIME subscribers here). As we write in the piece, Robles, who is 5 ft. 10 in. and weighs 275 pounds, “is chasing much more than a medal [...]
Silence Is Golden: Olympic Moment for the 1972 Israeli Terrorism Victims
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the darkest day in Olympic history. On Sept. 5, 1972, during the Munich Olympics, eight Palestinian terrorists broke into the Olympic village: two Israelis were shot and killed, and nine others were taken hostage. The militants demanded that 200 Arab inmates held in Israeli prisons be released; the [...]
Should Olympic Torch Bearers Be Allowed to Cash In?
Who isn’t a sucker for the story of the Olympic Flame? The journey begins when it’s lit at the Temple of Hera in Olympia, Greece, all thanks to the power of the sun. From there, it travels across the country that gave birth to the modern Olympiad before being brought over to the nation hosting [...]
For U.S. Women’s Soccer, the Road to Olympic Gold Goes Through North Korea
Circle July 31 on your calendars: That’s the day the U.S. is going face-to-face with North Korea. The two countries aren’t meeting at some diplomatic summit — they are squaring off on the soccer field. The U.S. women’s soccer team will be one of the big stories of the London Olympics. Last summer, Hope Solo [...]