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If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Ban ‘Em: Exclusion of Haudenosaunee From Lacrosse in 2028 Olympic Games

Often described as “America’s oldest team sport,” lacrosse was played as early as the year 1100 among the Haudenosaunee, a confederation of six Native American nations — the Cayuga, Seneca, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora — in Upstate New York and Canada.

November 30, 2023

Highlights·Opinion

Evaluating Sport Facts and Moral Truths: A Wholehearted Defense of Lia Thomas

CW: this article includes mentions of transphobia It’s rare that swimming as a sport is a general topic of conversation outside of Olympic years, but because Lia Thomas’s first place win in the 500-yard freestyle at NCAA DI Swimming and Diving Championships

April 7, 2022

Highlights·Sports

They’re Just Kids

Thirty athletes took the ice in the Olympic women’s singles figure skating event last week in Beijing. Of the 30, eighteen were teenagers, and the entire field posted a median age of nineteen. The youngest skater was fifteen-year-old Kamila Valieva of the

February 24, 2022

Highlights·Sports

Olympics Column: Ice Dancing

Watched on Tuesday 15th Bess: Hey, this is Bess. Grace: And this is Grace, and we are back with part two of our column. Bess: So once again, we don’t have time to watch all the events. Grace: Yeah, they are many

February 17, 2022

Sports

Examining the NHL’s Olympic ban

The Winter Olympics bring together the world’s best athletes on one grand stage. Big names in winter sports from around the world to compete for what is arguably the most prestigious athletic honor: an Olympic gold medal. This year, however, the National

February 22, 2018

Opinion·Sports

To dope, or not to dope?

To dope, or not to dope; that is the question. In the professional sports world, the controversy of whether or not steroids and performance enhancing drugs should be permitted has always been a hot-button issue, recently coming back into public discourse after

February 15, 2018

Sports

A new perspective on the Olympics, from a Brazil native

Sitting on my couch, with a cup of tea in hand and blankets covering my legs, I prepared myself to watch what I feared would be the biggest public humiliation Brazil had ever faced. It was August 5th , and I was

September 15, 2016

Features

Back On Board: The Legend of Greg Louganis

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. When I

October 30, 2015

Arts & Features·Features

Chalk It Up: Aly Raisman’s Kick Ass Comeback

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. Two time

December 4, 2014

Sports

Putin’s show

Let’s face it: the Sochi Olympics were never going to be anything but amazing. That isn’t because of the level of competition. It’s not because of the record beating scores or the new team figure skating event. They were going to be

February 20, 2014

Olympics

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Ban ‘Em: Exclusion of Haudenosaunee From Lacrosse in 2028 Olympic Games

Evaluating Sport Facts and Moral Truths: A Wholehearted Defense of Lia Thomas

They’re Just Kids

Olympics Column: Ice Dancing

Examining the NHL’s Olympic ban

To dope, or not to dope?

A new perspective on the Olympics, from a Brazil native

Back On Board: The Legend of Greg Louganis

Chalk It Up: Aly Raisman’s Kick Ass Comeback

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