Vladimir Putin should probably stop talking about gay people. In an interview today, the Russian president aimed to downplay fears that gay men and women will be in danger during the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, but instead he might have done the opposite.
"It's absurd that a country like that sends four lesbians to Russia just to demonstrate that in their country gay rights have (been established)," an Italian member of the International Olympic Committee says of the U.S. delegation for the upcoming Winter Olympics. Huh? What do you mean, "a country like that"?
The top three finishers at the national figure skating championships have always been, barring injury, the skaters named to the US Olympic team. But not this year.
Just one day after a suicide bombing killed at least 17 people at a railroad station in Volgograd, a second suicide bomber attacked a bus during Monday morning's rush hour in the same southern Russian city, leaving at least 14 people dead. The attacks come just six weeks before February's Olympic Games in Sochi.
In advance of his trip to the Sochi Olympics as a member of the U.S. delegation, former figure skater Brian Boitano comes out as unaware that he is commonly understood to be gay.
A gold medal won by sprinter Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics—a symbolic victory in the heart of Nazi Germany—has been bought by hard-partying billionaire Clinton pal Ron Burkle. What a, uh, fitting steward of this proud legacy.
In a stunningly straight-forward confessional video posted this morning to YouTube, popular British Olympian Tom Daley "put an end to all the rumours and speculation" by revealing that he has been dating a man for the past several months.
Members of the International Olympics Committee convened today to vote on which new sport would be allowed into the Summer Games. Wrestling beat out squash, baseball and softball. I like to think that they announced the decision by blowing five interlocking white smoke rings.
As the LGBT community ramps up its protest of Russia's recently enacted "gay propaganda" law, the lawmaker responsible for its existence released a statement saying Olympic athletes and tourists will be subject to its penalties.
Oscar Pistorius, the South African sprinter who last year became the first-ever double amputee to run in the Olympic games, was arrested and charged with murder in Pretoria today after allegedly shooting and killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Track star Immaculata Lolo Jones sure does have a lot of pent up energy and time on her hands; the U.S. bobsled team announced Thursday that Jones was one of 24 athletes who had secured a position on this season's bobsled team.
Guys, Ryan Lochte's sister Megan isn't a racist monster. She was just saying all that "chink" stuff ironically.
Is the 2012 London Olympics a flawed and corrupt but ultimately heartwarming celebration of athletic achievement and a sign of peace and cooperation among nations? Or is it a sinister occult ritual undertaken by the British Royal family and the Illuminati to summon ancient demons and secure their power over the…
This year, the Summer Olympics feature three dozen different sports. At least half of them are awful. Instead of hearing all the fans of minor sports complain when you banish them, why not simply fold them into other sports, creating a new, more entertaining sport?
Great Britain won its first gold medal of the 2012 Olympics today — in women's pair rowing — and the country celebrated the only way it knows how: with a rich buffoon doing something embarrassing and ridiculous.
Did you watch the women's gymnastics finals live? Watching any Olympics at all right now? Let's talk about it in here.
The internet is having a tantrum over NBC's terrible coverage of the Olympics. It's an entertaining spectacle, but nothing new. Since the early days of the World Wide Web, it's been used to shit on NBC's coverage of the Olympics.
If you live somewhere in the United States, have a TV, and prefer not to live in a world where Ryan Seacrest trumps some ol' fashioned global communing, then you are probably royally P.O.'ed. at NBC. Their warped coverage of the Olympic games—ostensibly having been geared towards its U.S. audience—has left much to be…
Welcome to the Gawker Guide to the Obscure Olympic Sports You Have Never Heard Of Or Given A Damn About. Today: weightlifting, also known as "the swords one," the 9th-most important Olympic sport and the one with the highest chance of spontaneous athlete vomiting.
Welcome to the Gawker Guide to the Obscure Olympic Sports You Have Never Heard Of Or Given A Damn About. Today: Fencing, also known as "the swords one," the 15th-most important Olympic sport.
