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Tag: Winter Olympics

Uno Shoma at the 2022 Winter Olympics

Dan Shaughnessy reflects on how the Olympics have become “a big bowl of bad”

February 17th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

“The Beijing Olympics… are a big bowl of bad, unfolding in a country ruled by fear and oppression,” the Boston Globe columnist writes.

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Haunting photos of abandoned 1984 Winter Olympics facilities

February 22nd, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

Haunting photos of abandoned 1984 Winter Olympics facilities A collection of photos collected by Viral Forest show the pathetic condition that Sarajevo’s Olympic facilities are

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Winter has returned to Sochi

February 20th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture
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Night view of Sochi, Russian Federation

February 20th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture
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Team USA’s Meryl Davis and Charlie White win Olympic gold in ice dancing

February 17th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

Team USA’s Meryl Davis and Charlie White win Olympic gold in ice dancing Michigan natives Meryl Davis and Charlie White secured the United States’ first

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This was one of the best slopestyle contests ever… And America went 1-2-3. I couldn’t be prouder.

February 13th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

This was one of the best slopestyle contests ever… And America went 1-2-3. I couldn’t be prouder. — U.S. Olympic Committee sports performance chief Alan

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