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How To Watch Olympic Surfing

Before watching professional surfers catch their first waves at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, take a minute to brush up on your surfing lingo and learn how to judge the competition. Here, Luli Pereira and Erik Krammer show us what they watch for when judging a wave and teach us the rules of the […]

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How To Watch Skateboarding Like An Olympic Judge

Do you think you could tell a good skateboarding trick from a great one? The difference between a perfect ollie and a poor one? Do you even know what an ollie is? With skateboarding coming to the Olympics for the first time, it’s about time to learn (or freshen up) on your knowledge of the […]

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How An Armless Archer Trains His Brain To Win Olympic Medals

Paralympian Matt Stutzman, born without arms, has become a world-class archer by shooting with his feet. He trains in remote Iowa, where his only competition is in his mind. So he imagines matches in extreme detail, from the feel of the wind to the sound of a crowd — a technique scientists have shown can […]

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The Olympics Timeline Has Been Cruel To Simone Biles

Simone Biles is the most decorated American gymnast ever and probably the most dominant active athlete in the world. Last October, she won her fifth all-around title at the World Championships, part of a five-medal blitz that brought her career total of gold medals at the Worlds to 19 — more than double the total […]

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How Many Athletes Just Lost Their Shot At Olympic Glory?

The news many observers had been waiting for finally came Tuesday, when International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics would be postponed by a year. Until then, the IOC had been publicly holding out hope that the games could continue as scheduled this summer, […]

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