2018 winter olympics
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Spread Love: Jamaican-American Bobsledder Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian Loves the Babies
Today’s a day we celebrate love—typically romantic love, but since what the world needs now is most definitely more love, sweet love, in general, today we’re celebrating all kinds of love: love of self, love of culture, love of country and love for our legacy. That’s why this week’s #WomanCrushWednesday is Jamaican-American Olympic bobsled pilot…
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There’s a Reason a TV Station Mixed Up P.F. Chang’s and Pyeongchang—and It’s Predictably Trash
Asian Americans are killing it at the Olympic Games so far, which would be a great story for one Chicago-area news station to cover—if it could just remember where the hell the Olympics were happening. Hint: It’s not gotdamn P.F. Chang’s. Now, before you hit me with Anne, no one is seriously mixing up P.F.…
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French Figure Skater’s Beyoncé Routine Gives Us #BlackGirlMagic on Ice
What hasn’t Beyoncé provided the soundtrack to? You’ve listened to her at weddings, at the Super Bowl, while applying your contour, while breaking up, while working it out and maybe even while nailing your infectious, world-class floor routine. Now the Undisputed Snatcher of Edges has conquered yet another venue: the Olympic ice-skating rink. France’s Maé…
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1st-Ever Black Hockey Player for Team USA Hits the Ice for Winter Olympics
So apropos that it’s Black History Month because Jordan Greenway will be making some black history when he steps onto the ice for the 2018 Winter Olympics as the first African American to be named to the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team. At 6 feet, 5 inches tall and 238 pounds, the 20-year-old will also…
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Speedskater Shani Davis Throws Shade at the Winter Olympics After Learning He Won’t Be the Flag Bearer
The Winter Olympics, aka the Privileged Olympics, have barely begun, and the drama is already heating up. Apparently U.S. Olympic speedskater Shani Davis was big mad after learning that he lost the opportunity to rock his Ralph Lauren outfit (because nothing says all-inclusive like suede tasseled Polo gloves that are reselling for thousands of dollars…
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Mike Pence Doesn’t Bat an Eye Bashing North Korea’s Military Parade While Praising Donald Trump’s Parade
Vice President Mike Pence refuses to admit that President Donald Trump’s call for a military parade is really just a dick-measuring contest of presidential proportions. Since Russian oligarchs all but awarded Trump the presidency, he’s been engaging in a game of chicken with arguably one of the world’s most unstable leaders, dictator Kim Jong Un.…
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Running Slaloms on ’Em: Kenyan Skier Sabrina Simader Makes It to 1st Winter Games
Although the Winter Olympics used to be a lily-white affair, or what The Root Senior Editor Stephen A. Crockett called “the privileged Olympics,” slowly but surely, the blacks are coming to eat. And black women are looking to dominate. In addition to a nice Nigerian bobsled team, not one, but two black women qualified for…
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#BlackGirlMagic on Ice: Black Girls Rock on Skates, Too
Each day I live, I want to beA day to give the best of me.I’m only one, but not aloneMy finest day is yet unknown … “One Moment in Time” was the official theme song of the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics in South Korea, memorably sung by the incredible Whitney Houston. At last week’s 2018…
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Looks Like Black Girls Are About to Dominate Speedskating in the 2018 Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics may just finally be worth watching, because heretofore, the international sports competition has been whiter than Cardi B’s new teeth (and cuz yes, I roots for all the black folks). On Friday, Erin Jackson became the first black woman to qualify for the U.S. Olympic long-track speedskating team, and the third-ever African…
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Naija! Nigeria’s Women’s Bobsled Team Set to Hit 2018 Winter Olympics
Like Jamaica so many years ago, Nigeria will be represented at the Winter Olympics in bobsledding—but this time it’s the women’s team who qualified for the bobsled event at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. ESPN reports that driver Seun Adigun and brakemen Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga completed the fifth of their…