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Meet the Olympic Uniform Designers Who Won Over the Internet

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The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris are set to kick off on Friday, but the internet has already dubbed Team Mongolia its winner—not for the nation’s sporting prowess, but for its striking Opening Ceremony uniforms.

When images of this year’s uniforms began circulating online last week, social media users and fashion publications lauded Mongolia’s ensemble, with athletes wearing a crisp shirt and vest with trousers or a pleated skirt, and flag bearers wearing a tunic taking inspiration from Mongolia’s native deel. The show-stopping detail? Intricate gold embroidery depicting motifs of Mongolia’s heritage and relationship to the games. The costumes were designed by Michel & Amazonka, a sister-run Ulaanbaatar-based label that has since been catapulted into the spotl…

Kevin Durant Dominates Against Serbia

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Kevin Durant checked into the USA-Serbia men’s basketball game in Lille, France, on Sunday afternoon, with 2 minutes, 33 seconds left in the first quarter and his team requiring a boost. Serbia led 20-14 and the American men, favored to win the gold medal, were making some sloppy mistakes, on both ends of the floor.

The all-time leading scorer in United States Olympic men’s basketball history, who missed the team’s five pre-Olympic tune-up games due to a calf injury, was about to change the trajectory of this affair, in front of a sold-out crowd of 27,000 people at Pierre Mauroy Stadium, which usually hosts soccer. Which is fitting, because with the international crowd dressed in a multicolored tapestry of different NBA and national-team jerseys—in honor of their fav…

IOC Leader Condemns ‘Hate Speech’ Directed at Olympic Boxers

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PARIS — IOC President Thomas Bach said Saturday the “hate speech” directed at boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting at the Paris Olympics is “totally unacceptable.”

“We will not take part in a politically motivated … cultural war,” Bach said at a news briefing at the midway point of the games, that also tried to draw a line under days of global scrutiny about the female boxers’ gender.

“What is going on in this context in the social media with all this hate speech, with this aggression and abuse, and fueled by this agenda, is totally unacceptable,” the International Olympic Committee leader said.

Khelif of Algeria and Lin of Taiwan have been the focus of intense attention — and often inaccurate commentary — because both were disqualified at the 20…

Can Anyone Save the Scandal-Plagued USA Gymnastics- Li Li Leung Is Determined to Try

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There are thankless jobs, and then there is Li Li Leung’s job. As the new president and CEO of USA Gymnastics (USAG), Leung oversees an organization that is struggling to justify its existence. After major sponsors walked away following USAG’s involvement in one of the worst sex-abuse scandals in sports history, the group declared bankruptcy last December, and is now in danger of losing its status as the national governing body for the sport in the U.S.

Leung is the fourth new head of USAG in two years and must now restore the reputation of gymnastics in the U.S. She inherits an organization that many gymnasts feel is working against them. Both gymnasts and USAG officials have revealed that under its previous leadership, it not only failed to immediately report sexual-…