Tag: Olympics
A look at Pyeongchang’s heartwarming cuisine
Soo Kang, Colorado State University
As a middle schooler growing up in South Korea, I still vividly remember the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. At the...
When treating sports injuries, does the West do it best?
Nate Newman, Drake University
Every two years, billions of people watch athletes at the Olympics compete to be crowned world champion.
What the viewer doesn’t...
Paris and Los Angeles bids to host Olympics expose deeper crisis...
John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
It’s official: We now have hosts for the next two Summer Olympics. Paris will host in 2024...
Don’t Run (and Don’t Laugh): The Little-Known History of Racewalking
“Besides, when you do it properly it doesn’t look weird! It looks athletic. I think it looks a lot less weird than a swimmer doing the breast stroke.”
In Rio’s bulldozed _favelas,_ echoes of America’s shantytowns
Lisa Goff, University of Virginia
The 500,000 tourists expected to attend the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will see a dazzling city, miles...
Let’s face it: gender bias in academia is for real
Cynthia Leifer, Cornell University; Hadas Kress-Gazit, Cornell University; Kim Weeden, Cornell University; Marjolein C H van der Meulen, Cornell University; Paulette Clancy, Cornell University,...
The green and the gold: can we soften the environmental impact...
The green and the gold: can we soften the environmental impact of the Olympics?
John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The International Olympic Committee...
EXPLORING NATURE
Get chronic UTIs? Future treatments may add more bacteria to your...
Sarguru Subash, Texas A&M University
Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world suffer from urinary tract...
