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Olympic athletes are inspiring. They train for years in sometimes-obscure sports. They wear their bodies out. They face extreme odds to make it to the Games. And, when fortune is in their favor, they win, giving us impressive stories of overcoming obstacles and pursuing excellence as we’ve seen many times at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter […]
Tom Brady may have won his sixth Super Bowl title, leading the New England Patriots to another championship win over the Los Angeles Rams at Sunday’s low-scoring Super Bowl 53 in Atlanta — but it’s his six-year-old daughter, Vivian Lake, who won the internet’s heart. Brady held her on his hip as he celebrated the […]
Retired soccer star Abby Wambach delivered the commencement address to the Barnard College class of 2018 on Wednesday, speaking about the challenges in her career and her fight against the gender pay gap. “Like all little girls, I was taught to be grateful. I was taught to keep my head down, stay on the path, […]
Tiger Woods on Sunday deflected questions about his relationship with President Donald Trump, telling a reporter that “you have to respect the office” of the President regardless of personal opinions. Woods, who appeared at a news conference after tying for 40th place at the Northern Trust, avoided going into specifics when a reporter asked about […]
(Bloomberg) — Nike Inc. is looking into what went wrong after college basketball’s biggest star sprained his knee when his shoe fell apart, one of the most high-profile apparel failures in basketball history. Duke University star freshman Zion Williamson, the consensus No. 1 pick in this year’s National Basketball Association draft, tumbled to the court […]
Antoni Porowski is having some fun with his new meme status after becoming an instantly relatable touchstone for the internet this week. As Kate Beckinsale and Pete Davidson displayed a little public affection during Sunday’s New York Rangers-Washington Capitals hockey game in New York, Queer Eye’s resident food and wine guru sat solo beside Beckinsale […]
Nadezhda Sergeeva, pilot of the two-woman bobsled team representing the Olympic Athletes from Russia, proudly proclaimed her anti-doping stance when she appeared in a YouTube video wearing a sweatshirt with the slogan “I don’t do doping” stamped brightly across the front. But that slogan isn’t ringing so true today, after Russian Bobsled Federation president Alexander […]
The Internet took some time out of basking in the glow of the final night of the 2018 Olympics to have a mini freak-out over a puppet featured in the closing ceremony. Known as Inmyeonjo, the human-faced bird—which appears in ancient cave drawings from the Goguryeo period of Korean history—first made waves during the Winter […]
If this year’s Winter Olympics in PyeongChang have taught us anything so far, it might be what love looks like. Well, the platonic love between longtime ice dancing partners Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada, anyway. The gold medal pair won the internet’s heart this year with a ravishing dance in the team competition […]
Although Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir have emphatically denied that they’re dating, they couldn’t convince Ellen DeGeneres otherwise. The Canadian ice dancing pair, who captured the hearts and hopes of Winter Olympics viewers everywhere this year with their sizzling chemistry and risqué routines, have long been speculated to be in a relationship, something that they […]