Sports

The soccer tournament is being held in the middle of ongoing conflict—and is still fighting for the world’s respect.

How Liverpool’s star player changed hearts and minds.

Athletes rebuked competitive norms as COVID-19 became the most normal part of the Tokyo Games.

Honey Thalijeh grew up under Israeli military occupation but found a way forward through football.

A Muslim athlete shares her story of expressing her true identity while on the court.

Peng Shuai’s disappearance has mobilized the international community—and puts China’s Olympic dreams under even more scrutiny.

Moving the Games offers a rare opportunity to weaken Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Beijing is not content to stop stifling free speech at the water’s edge. Western companies and institutions must put liberty before profits.

Can the Haudenosaunee Confederacy become the first Indigenous nation to secure an Olympic berth?

The Tokyo Games have brought a surge of nationalism and laid bare the methods of autocrats like Belarus’s Aleksandr Lukashenko.

From enjoying the Olympics to defeating COVID-19, a small dose of collective pride can go a long way toward success.

Having a single host site would be a simple—and entirely traditional—fix for what ails the Games.

Allowing the Games to happen alongside an ongoing genocide would be a disaster.

Tokyo-Seoul relations remain mired in bad history and petty insults.

Decades of sex abuse turned American gymnasts away from their federation. Will other sports follow suit?

Thomas Bach has joined a long line of IOC chiefs who have been hated by everyone associated with the Games.

European soccer administrators have stifled the beautiful game. It’s time to rein them in.