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Scene from the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Mary Lou Retton battling pneumonia

Joy Saha
The Official Olympic Flag (Getty Images/Getty Images North America)

Is Olympic abuse commission for real?

Irvin Muchnick
The Official Olympic Flag (Getty Images/Getty Images North America)

Olympic abuse scandal: A strange twist

Irvin Muchnick
Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics mascot Shuey Rhon Rhon and Olympics mascot Bing Dwen Dwen pose in the snow outside the Main Media Center on February 13, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Cui Nan/China News Service via Getty Images)

Insidious Olympics mascot Bing Dwen Dwen

Rhoda Feng
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Russia's Olympic Committee Alina Kovaleva curls the stone as Galina Arsenkina and Ekaterina Kuzmina watch during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games curling competition on February 17, 2022. (LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images)

10 cool facts about curling

Rudie Obias - Mental Floss
Katharina Althaus of Team Germany jumps during the Women's Normal Hill official Training at Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre on February 03, 2022 in Zhangjiakou, China. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

8 biggest Beijing Olympics controversies

Joy Saha
Kamila Valieva of Team ROC falls on ice during the Women Single Skating Free Skating on day thirteen of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Capital Indoor Stadium on February 17, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Xavier Laine/Getty Images)

Figure skating medalists bittersweet win

Joy Saha
Kamila Valieva of the Russian Olympic Committee performs during the figure skating team event women's single skating free skating at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 7, 2022. (Liu Xiao/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Did trimetazidine help Russia win gold?

Eric Schank
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Joshua Jackson as Christopher Duntsch in "Dr. Death" (Scott McDermott/Peacock)

What to watch on Peacock beyond Olympics

Joy Saha
Kamila Valieva of Team ROC reacts during the Women Single Skating Free Skating Team Event on day three of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Capital Indoor Stadium on February 07, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

Russian glory at any cost, even athletes

Alison Stine
A snowmaking machine works at the National Cross-Country Skiing Centre, a venue for the cross-country skiing and Nordic combined events of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, on November 15, 2021 in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province of China. (Wu Diansen/VCG via Getty Images)

The first Olympics with all-fake snow

Eric Schank
Leslie Jones (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)

Why won't NBC rehire Leslie Jones?

Joy Saha
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Klete Keller of the USA during the FINA World Swimming Championships at the Olympiisky Swimming Pool, Moscow, Russia. (Jamie McDonald/Getty Images)

Olympic swimmer pleads guilty for Jan. 6

Jon Skolnik
Simone Biles is sworn in to testify during a Senate Judiciary hearing about the FBI handling of the Larry Nassar investigation of sexual assault (SAUL LOEB/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Our endless demands of Simone Biles

Kylie Cheung
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The etymology of 15 Olympic words

John Kelly - Mental Floss
Sunisa Lee competes on the uneven bars for the women's gymnastics all-around at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (Tom Weller/DeFodi Images via Getty Images)

Suni Lee's signature move

Kaitlin Thomas
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Brendan Hunt as Coach Beard in "Ted Lasso" (Apple TV+)

"Ted Lasso" sheds light on Simone Biles

Melanie McFarland
USA's Simone Biles at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo on July 27, 2021. (LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)

Simone Biles vs. mental health stigmas

Matthew Rozsa
Germany's Kim Bui competes in the artistic gymnastics balance beam event of the women's qualification during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. (LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images)

Gymnastics unitard fights sports sexism

Kylie Cheung
Fencer Alen Hadzic of the U.S. looks on at the Peter Bakonyi Men's Epee World Cup at the Richmond Olympic Oval in 2020. (Devin Manky/Getty Images)

Fencer accused of assault controversy

Kylie Cheung
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Jagger Eaton of Team United States practices on the skateboard street course ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on July 21, 2021 (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

8 ways these Olympics are different

Kaitlin Thomas
Naomi Osaka at the 2021 French Open Tennis Tournament and Brianna McNeal in the Women 100 Meter Hurdles at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials (Photo illustration by Salon/Tim Clayton/Corbis/Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

Toll of policing Black women athletes

Kylie Cheung
Sha'carri Richardson and Florence Griffith Joyner (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Misogynoir on display at the Olympics

Kylie Cheung
Gwendolyn Berry displays an Activist Athlete shirt as she celebrates finishing third in the Women's Hammer Throw final on day nine of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials at Hayward Field on June 26, 2021 in Eugene, Oregon. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

Right wants to cancel U.S. Olympians

Zachary Petrizzo
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