Olympics Popular, But No World Cup
Sure, the Olympics opening ceremonies draw a huge audience. A record 1.4 billion tuned in to see the…
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Female Olympians Sidetracked from Prime Time TV
Female athletes continue to get short shrift on prime-time Olympic coverage.
Phelps Dominates Olympics News Coverage
There are athletes not named Michael Phelps competing at the Beijing Olympics, but you may not know it…
Men Dominate Olympics TV Coverage
A new analysis of NBC’s prime-time Olympics coverage shows male athletes receive more air time than women, but…
The Sugar High Jump
The results of a new study point to placebos as the perfect performance-enhancing drug: Athletes performed better on a high-jump test after unknowingly 'doping' with sugar pills.
Just How Bad Is the Air in Beijing?
Masked marathoners aside, a new paper suggests that as bad as Beijing's air quality may be, it has improved during the decade leading up to the Olympics.
The Protest: Not a New Olympic Event
Politics has been an Olympic event since at least 1968, although this summer's games in Beijing are producing a level of activism not seen in decades.
Academic Coverage of Sports and Steroids
More than 20 years of published articles on performance-enhancing drugs have ranged from identifying the damage the drugs have on the individual to the damage they have on society as a whole.