Milano Cortina opens the most spread-out Olympics ever: two cauldrons, four clusters and a farewell to San Siro
MILAN — The Winter Olympics came home to the mountains on Friday night, and did so in a way no Games has…
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Paris opens its Games on the river: rain, boats and a city turned into a stadium
PARIS — They said it could not be done, and for an hour on Friday evening it seemed the rain might agree.…
Beijing’s bubble Games open: winter sport returns to the Olympic city of 2008, without the world watching in person
BEIJING — Fourteen years after the Summer Games that announced China to the world, the Bird’s Nest stadium lit up again on…
Tokyo closes the Games that almost weren’t: 17 days without fans, and a handover to Paris
TOKYO — The Olympics that were postponed, protested and pronounced impossible ended on Sunday night with a closing ceremony in an almost…
Simone Biles withdraws in Tokyo: the greatest gymnast of her era puts her mind before the medals
TOKYO — The biggest star of these Olympics came to the Ariake arena on Tuesday to compete, and left having done something…
Tokyo 2020 becomes the first Olympics postponed in peacetime: the Games move to 2021
TOKYO — The Olympic Games have been cancelled in wartime, boycotted in the Cold War and shaken by scandal, but never before…