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Climbing has been touted as the embodiment of the Olympic motto: 'Citius, Altius, Fortius (faster, higher, stronger)'
Skating officials hope the high-adrenaline spectacle of skaters turning their boards into flying machines, soaring over obstacles, will hook a new generation of Olympic fans
Surfing is as much skill and science as instinct and timing, and that begins with learning how to read ocean swells to anticipate the formation of the wave to quickly execute a maneuver.
After nearly a half-century of attempts to add karate to the Olympics, the Japanese martial art finally makes its debut on a temporary basis
All four were charged with conspiring to 'collude with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security' under the city's year-old national security law
Facility in Uyghur Autonomous Region is twice the size of Vatican City and has room for at least 10,000 inmates
Tokyo has been plagued with scandals since being awarded the Games in 2013
Official dismisses lab leak theory as a rumor running counter to common sense
The fate of his infrastructure proposal remains unclear after Senate Republicans rejected a $1 trillion blueprint in a key test vote Wednesday
He’s currently serving a 23-year prison term in New York
Organizers expect to operate at full capacity, after last year's ceremony was delayed for months and later conducted under COVID-19 restrictions
'We have made significant progress and are close to a final agreement,' a bipartisan group of senators said after the vote
The first lady is set to arrive at Yokota Air Force Base in Tokyo on Thursday afternoon
The Games will go back to Australia 32 years after the popular 2000 Sydney Olympics. Melbourne hosted in 1956
Student Wang Jingyu and his fiancee Wu Huan fled their hiding place in Ukraine for the Netherlands after a warning that Chinese officials knew where they were
The drop is due mainly to the COVID-19 pandemic, which health officials say is responsible for close to 74% of the overall life expectancy decline
The military's previous attempt to oust Tun failed
Most experts believe India's official toll of more than 414,000 dead is a vast undercount
First NBA title for Milwaukee in 50 years
Firefighters said the flames in a massive Oregon fire jumped less from treetop to treetop and instead returned to the ground, where they were easier to fight, moved more slowly and did less damage to the overall forest
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