Sports
PRI's The World
August 15, 2016
Jamaican Sprinter Usain Bolt won his third straight gold medal.on Sunday in the 100-meter sprint. Not long after he took his victory lap, NBC announcer Bob Costas said, "With apologies to all you reggae fans, I think that Bolt has even outdistanced Marley."
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Health & Medicine
Brazil now has doubts that Zika alone causes birth defects
GlobalPost
August 02, 2016
Just when many Olympians are arriving — and others are canceling over Zika fears — Brazilian doctors are questioning the theory that the mosquito-borne virus caused an increase in microcephaly cases.
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Sports
How Ryan Lochte went from victim to suspect in Rio
GlobalPost
August 18, 2016
Updated
In a crazy twist, US swimmers in Brazil went from being supposed crime victims to suspects of an investigation.
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Conflict & Justice
It's not just the Olympics. Sports have been important in refugee camps for decades.
PRI's The World
August 12, 2016
As a team of refugees participates in the Olympics for the first time, refugees around the world are playing sports in the camps they're temporarily calling home. Social welfare organizations like the YMCA also recognized the value of sports in refugee camps dating as far back as World War II.
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Sports
Rio Olympics brings new attention to women who wear hijabs in sports competitions
Day 6
August 16, 2016
Bronze medal-winning fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad has drawn attention with her choice to wear a hijab in Olympic competition. But she's not the first, by far. It's an issue being faced by women at the highest level of sports around the world all the time.
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Sports
For hard-luck Haiti, a new challenge: Basketball
PRI's The World
March 10, 2015
Updated
Soccer has long been king in Haiti. But over the last few years, a new sport has taken hold: basketball. Now, there's an ambitious push, led by an unlikely cast of characters, to build a Haitian national team that can compete on the Olympic stage.
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Lifestyle & Belief
US Ultimate Frisbee players have their eyes on Olympics
PRI's The World
September 13, 2016
The mixed-gender sport is among events being considered for inclusion at the 2024 Summer Olympics. But can it hold onto its ideals?
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Sports
The 2020 Olympics will feature surfing, skateboarding, baseball, karate and more
GlobalPost
August 04, 2016
The International Olympic Committee voted unanimously to add new sports to the official games roster, in an effort organizers hope will get young people pumped again about the event.
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Arts, Culture & Media
There's an official funk song for the Olympics. But funk artists in Rio say they face persecution.
PRI's The World
August 04, 2016
The government in Rio de Janeiro commissioned an official funk carioca song for the Olympics, because the style is so popular in the city. But funk musicians in Rio say city authorities have been cracking down on them for years, raiding their parties and destroying their equipment.
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Conflict & Justice
The Olympic Park wouldn’t have this babysitter as its neighbor
PRI's The World
August 05, 2016
Thousands of Rio residents were evacuated from their homes to make way for Olympic projects. Some resisted. Many feel their communities were torn apart.
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Sports
Japan looks to the future — and its past — for 2020 Olympics
PRI's The World
July 07, 2015
By the time Japan hosts the 2020 summer Olympic Games, its triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown will be almost a decade old. Relief efforts are nowhere near completed, and now Japan must face some difficult choices about funding.