Iris Cummings Critchell, an aviation pioneer who was believed to be the last living Olympian from the 1936 Berlin Games, died last Friday at ... “We’d heard the same rumors (about a U.S. boycott). We ...

Critchell was believed to be the last living Olympian who participated in the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin - the last games ... the same rumors (about a U.S. boycott). We were all wondering if ...

When the Rio Olympics begin tonight, beyond the glitz and the glamour ... to make a positive case for the nazi regime’s hosting of the Games in order to head off calls to boycott Berlin. Much of this ...

Despite a boycott by both social democrat and bourgeois sports ... In 1936, in direct opposition to the nazi Olympics in Berlin, the Worker Olympics were to take place in republican Barcelona. Their ...

One of the oldest living Olympians recently died at the age of 104, as former American swimmer Iris Cummings Critchell ...

At the time, Kostadinova was ranked number two in her event in her own country; in East Berlin the previous June ... when Bulgarian athletes missed out on the Los Angeles Olympics because of the ...

The Weeknd announced his boycott in 2021 after he was shut out of that year's awards, citing the complicated way nominees were determined at the time and accusing the Recording Academy of a lack ...

A boycott of Tesla vehicles is gaining momentum in Germany due to Elon Musk’s consistent meddling in the country’s politics and promotion of a fringe far-right party. Many analysts and Tesla ...

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics may still be nine months away, but there is already controversy brewing as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called for a “diplomatic boycott” ...