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A packed Verona Arena couldn’t save a Closing Ceremony athletes didn’t want. Team USA men’s hockey gold came by Milano Cortina robbery, not Miracle-on-Ice magic. Johannes Klæbo became the Winter Games GOAT. Eileen Gu delivered drama. China collapsed. For all its flaws, though, Milano Cortina 2026 delivered the Games the Olympics are supposed to be.… Read more.
Alysa Liu jumps from burnout to Olympic gold and emerges as the face of Milano Cortina 2026. Japan flirts with a historic figure skating sweep, then blinks. Team USA breaks Canada’s heart in overtime hockey. Day 13 delivers star power, rivalry, and a new Olympic icon. Read my full iPINIONS take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/milano-cortina-2026-day-13 Read more.
Biathlon crowns the ultimate all-around Winter Olympians as France claims gold. Canada dominates the oval and humiliates the US ahead of a looming hockey showdown. And ski jumping descends into scandal with a bizarre controversy dubbed “Penisgate.” Day 11 delivers elite sport, proxy war politics, and Olympic absurdity in equal measure. Read my full iPINIONS… Read more.
Milano Cortina 2026 opened with a ceremony Italy didn’t pretend was apolitical. From Mariah Carey’s lip-synced cameo to Laura Pausini and Andrea Bocelli’s live rebuke, and from Team USA’s Erin Jackson-led delegation to the crowd’s unmistakable message for American politicians, iPINIONS thinks the night revealed how sport can still unite where politics divides. Read my… Read more.
For the duration of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, iPINIONS is setting aside its usual mix of topics to focus exclusively on the Games. Expect daily dispatches highlighting athletes, moments, absurdities, grace, crashes, and comebacks — along with a reminder that sport can still offer joy and connection in a mad, mad, mad world.… Read more.
International sports may be thriving, but can they still deliver the unity global diplomacy keeps failing to achieve? From Trump’s World Cup meddling to Putin’s Olympic exile, iPINIONS explores how sports remain the world’s last honest broker — even as everything else burns. Read it now on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/the-last-diplomat-standing-can-sports Read more.
Sports authorities should ban trans women from competing against cis women. Fundamental fairness demands it. Yet sports authorities worldwide have been allowing trans women to do just that. Fairness be damned. Trans women banned Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been the face of efforts to enforce this ban. And it has cost her a lot. Millions… Read more.
China does not permit dual citizenship. But, like all authoritarian regimes, it is notorious for imposing rules on the masses which they allow the elites (e.g., like Putin’s oligarchs) to flout. And so it was that China permitted Eileen Gu to reap all the benefits of representing China at the Beijing 2022 Olympics without having… Read more.
The 2020 Tokyo Paralympics get underway with the Opening Ceremony tonight. If you live in the United States, however, you probably had no clue (unless you’re related to someone from Team USA, or you experienced the Google shower of Paralympic pictograms on your computer screen). Of course, media coverage of the Paralympics is scant in… Read more.
I can think of no better overview of this latest development than the following: Russia dopes its athletes to gain unfair advantage in international competitions as readily as it meddles in foreign countries to undermine democratic institutions. I hope that strikes a chord. Because it informed my commentary after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) issued… Read more.
