Rio 2016

Petition Hopes to Revoke IOC Press Credentials from Nico Hines and The Daily Beast

A change.org petition is calling for reporter Nico Hines and The Daily Beast to have their press credentials for covering the Rio Olympics revoked … [Read more...] about Petition Hopes to Revoke IOC Press Credentials from Nico Hines and The Daily Beast

Swimmer Amini Fonua, of Tonga, one of the few openly gay Olympians in Rio -- and our newest hero -- took to Twitter to protest against the Daily … [Read more...] about Rio 2016, Day 6 Report: Grindr Aftermath, Fiji’s First Medal Ever and Phelps’s 22nd

The Daily Beast late on Thursday removed a heavily edited and redacted article written by Nico Hines in which the reporter used Grindr to out gay … [Read more...] about ‘Daily Beast’ Pulls Article That Outed Olympic Athletes Using Grindr, Apologizes

A straight journalist from The Daily Beast has landed in hot water after using Grindr to write a piece on gay hook-up sex among Olympians in which he … [Read more...] about Straight Journalist Cruises Grindr at the Olympics, Outs Athletes From Anti-Gay Countries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP493LmSJrE TRUMP TOWER CLIMBER. The creepy video the Trump supporter left the day before the climb. "I guarantee … [Read more...] about Trump Tower Climber, Laverne Cox, Bridgegate, Tom Ford, Celine Dion, Scream Queens: HOT LINKS

The UK's Daily Mail newspaper enraged social media after it suggested that a hug between synchronized divers Jack Laugher and Chris Mears, who won … [Read more...] about UK Paper Suggests Hug Between Olympic Divers Chris Mears and Jack Laugher is Not Manly

The games of the XXXI Olympiad, which people in the Northern Hemisphere refer to as the Rio Summer Games are actually held in the winter for all … [Read more...] about Rio 2016 Day 5 Report: The Wintry Games, an Olympian Parties Out, Tom Daley and Green Water

Rafaela Silva, the first (and so far only) medalist to give host Brazil a gold medal, had a very tough road leading up to her recent Olympic … [Read more...] about Brazil’s First Gold Medalist in Rio Overcame Unimaginable Hardship With Help from Longtime Girlfriend

NOT A JOKE. NY Daily News says Trump must end campaign. "In the event that Trump fails to abandon his candidacy — as he seems determined to — the … [Read more...] about Assassination, Ed Sheeran, Arrival, Pokemon Go, Rostam Batmanglij, Harry Aikines: HOT LINKS

Day 4 in Rio 2016 was a day of extremes -- both good and bad -- so we thought we'd start our recap with something a little less emotionally … [Read more...] about Rio 2016 Day 4 Report: Boys from Ipanema, a Stunner and an ‘Ouch!’ Moment