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46-Year-Old Olympic Gymnast Oksana Chusovitina Gets Standing Ovation After Final Vault
46-year-old Olympic gymnast Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan made history on Sunday when she competed in her eighth (and likely last)...
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TV Today: Katie Thurston's Suitors Spill the Tea in The Bachelorette: Men Tell All Special
With The Bachelorette's Season 17 finale just two weeks out, Katie Thurston’s former suitors step into the hot seat in the...
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Posted Saturday 7/24/21 at 8:36PM EDT
Only 17 million watched the Opening Ceremony, the worst viewership of the past 30 years
NBC's live coverage of the Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony on Friday morning and its re-airing Friday night combined for 17...
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Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony reflected the "Sadlympics" and "the Ill-lympics"
"The Games of the XXXII Olympiad formally began by evoking a sense of isolation, specifically the isolation felt by athletes...
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Posted Friday 7/23/21 at 3:11PM EDT
NBC is using its Olympics coverage to brand Lester Holt as "The Anchor of America"
A commercial promoting the NBC Nightly News anchor as "The Anchor of America" premiered during NBC's live Opening Ceremonies coverage...
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Nine Years Later, the London Olympics Industrial Revolution Pageant Still Haunts
One great thing about the Olympics is that memorable moments can come from anywhere, whether it's achievement on the track,...
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TV Today: The Tokyo Olympics Begin, Ted Lasso Returns, and Tig Notaro Gets Drawn
Let the games begin: The 2020 Tokyo Olympics kick off Friday with an Opening Ceremony that will unite athletes from...
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Posted Thursday 7/22/21 at 8:45PM EDT
Olympics should reel in viewers again despite the pandemic chaos
"In an age of ultra-high definition and the ability to watch any sporting event anywhere in the world live on...
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Posted Thursday 7/22/21 at 2:04PM EDT
Maria Taylor is reportedly already in Tokyo ready to cover the Olympics for NBC
Although a deal for Taylor to work for NBC Sports hasn't been announced, The Athletic's Richard Deitsch reports that she...
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Posted Thursday 7/22/21 at 2:04PM EDT
How to watch the Tokyo Olympics' Opening Ceremony
NBC will offer live coverage of the Opening Ceremony on Friday morning starting at 6:55 a.
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Five Olympic Cauldron Lightings We'll Never Forget
Friday's opening ceremonies from Tokyo will mark the start of the most fraught Olympic games in modern memory.
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Posted Thursday 7/22/21 at 2:04AM EDT
Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony director fired over his newly discovered Holocaust jokes from the 1990s
Less than 48 hours before the Opening Ceremony, Kentaro Kobayashi, a former Japanese comedian who has led the Opening Ceremony's...
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Posted Wednesday 7/21/21 at 10:50AM EDT
Australia to host the Summer Olympics for the third time with Brisbane winning the 2032 Summer Games
Brisbane will host the 2032 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Posted Monday 7/19/21 at 9:09PM EDT
NBC will kick off the Olympics with Savannah Guthrie and Mike Tirico co-hosting the Opening Ceremony live on Friday morning
NBC is sending the Today show and NBC Nightly News to Tokyo for its Olympic coverage.
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Posted Monday 7/19/21 at 12:50PM EDT
Tokyo Olympics composer Keigo Oyamada quits after revelation he bullied kids with disabilities in school
Oyamada, 52, recently apologized after old magazine articles resurfaced in which he boasted of the bullying and said he had...