Perina runs with her teammates during the morning session in Nandi County, western Kenya, June 22, 2024. Perina Lokure Nakang, a 21-year-old girl from South Sudan, was selected as a refugee athlete at the Paris Olympics. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen) Cristiano Ronaldo (L) of Portugal reacts ...
You’ll have to wait until 2028 for the next Olympics, but in the meantime there’s the International Year of Quantum (IYQ) in 2025, which also features a torch relay. In keeping with the quantum theme, however, this light source is very, very small. The light source is current...
Perina runs with her teammates during the morning session in Nandi County, western Kenya, June 22, 2024. Perina Lokure Nakang, a 21-year-old girl from South Sudan, was selected as a refugee athlete at the Paris Olympics. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen) Cristiano Ronaldo (L) of Portugal reacts ...
Let's take a look!What Key Words (关键词)100 years old (1921-2021)The Communist Party of China the first meeting in Shanghai work hard to make a strong China The Tokyo Olympics the torch relay (火炬传递): March-July, in Japan gardens (花园) with beautiful flowers Yangzhou Horticultural...
Fan Duoyao of China competes during the heat of men's singles luge at the Experience Beijing FIL Luge World Cup at the National Sliding Center in Yanqing, Beijing, Nov. 20, 2021. He's the first Chinese athlete qualified for the FIL Luge World Cup race. (Xinhua/Chen Yichen) ...
To honor Beijing’s status as the world’s first city to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics, the 2022 torch features a similar design to the 2008 Games’ main cauldron, which resembled a giant scroll, highlighting the legacy of the Olympic spirit in the Chinese capital. ...
The first Olympics since 2004 to not feature Michael Phelps cast worry that the Tokyo men's swimming program might lack starpower. American Caeleb Dressel put those worries to rest emphatically. Dressel captured five gold medals, including a perfect three-for-three in his individual events, the...
the medal contenders in single sculls, one of the biggest stories of the Games was KenyanIbrahim Githaiga, who became the first black African ever to row at the Olympics. Githaiga began rowing in 1997, at the suggestion of a friend. In 2002 he and coachJuvenalis Gitauearned an Olympic ...
as it made its way across the country to the Olympics in Los Angeles. I wasn’t an Olympic athlete. My dad did some voluntary work for the Olympics that year, for which I was able to carry the flame. Still it makes me realize that all sorts of honors can come our way unexpectedly....
Some athletes have also dealt with training challenges, having to get creative with homemade gyms or even moving out of the country. Still, Burrow says the consensus among athletes is that the Olympics will go on. “There’s always that 1% feeling in the back of everyone’s brain, that ...