Celebrity Life
Meet 6 Heroes Who Helped Battle COVID-19 Before Competing in the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics
'What we’ve been through has made me realize even more: health is the most important thing, both for the individual and the collective'
Tokyo’s Plan to Avoid Pandemic Disaster During the Olympics
New cases of COVID-19 could forever tarnish this year's Olympics as an exercise in folly amid a global pandemic
‘Unapologetic and Unafraid.’ Sue Bird Stares Down Olympic Glory in Tokyo and Equity Off the Court
The last Olympics of the basketball star's storied career comes as the larger world has finally begun to appreciate her greatness
Motherhood Could Have Cost Olympian Allyson Felix. She Wouldn’t Let It
Allyson Felix can still hear the screams. In late 2018, the six-time Olympic gold medalist was sitting in the neonatal intensive-care unit of a hospital outside Detroit, watching her weeks-old daughter fight for her life. Camryn, born premature at 32 weeks, was hooked up to monitors; an alarm would go off when doctors needed to…
Naomi Osaka: ‘It’s O.K. Not to Be O.K.’
'I felt under a great amount of pressure to disclose my symptoms because the press and the tournament did not believe me'
Russia Was Banned From the Tokyo Olympics. These Athletes Are Finding Other Ways to Compete
Russian long jumper Darya Klishina says has been waiting for her Olympic moment since she was 16 years old, when was professionally training in Moscow, some 112 miles from her small hometown of Tver. Even though she will compete in a half-filled stadium due to COVID-19 restrictions, she expects it to feel more celebratory than…
Why Marijuana Could Keep Sha’Carri Richardson Out of the Olympics
The sprinting phenom says she used cannabis to cope with the death of her biological mother, but the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency still considers the drug to be "performance-enhancing"
Parra Made the Most Fire Nike SB Kits for the Tokyo Olympics
Skateboarding is one of five new sport formats added to this year’s Olympics, so you know Nike SB is making it a priority to outfit its athletes with the absolute best uniforms, both in terms of design and function. To achieve this, the brand called on Dutch artist Piet Parra to lend his design expertise […]
Meet the U.S. Women’s Olympic Gymnastics Team for Tokyo
Given the depth of talent, it’s one of the hardest national teams to make
Simone Biles Is Already the Best Gymnast Ever. She’ll Be Even Better for Tokyo
When you’ve won seven national championships, 19 world titles, five Olympic medals (four of them gold), and your leotards are already decorated with a rhinestone goat (a nod to Greatest of All Time status), is there anything left to prove? For most people, the answer is no. But Simone Biles is not like most people,…
The design ethos of Kengo Kuma
The acclaimed Japanese architect talks about his career, pushing the boundaries of building design, and his first project in Singapore.
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