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Simone Manuel made history at the 2016 Rio Olympics last night.  Manuel became the first African-American to win a gold medal in an Olympic swimming event. 20-year-old Manuel upset world-record holder Cate Campbell of Australia, and tied with Penny Oleksiak of Canada for gold in the 100-meter freestyle event.  The two of them currently share the […]

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Sports announcers have one job, to commentate what is going on, without sticking their foot in their mouth.  NBC gymnastics announcer, Al Trautwig was slammed by adoption advocates after he made inaccurate comments about Simone Biles‘ parents. When discussing the background of the USA gymnastics team, Trautwig kept referring to Biles’ parents as her grandparents.  Ron […]

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Our favorite doubles tennis duo has now lost their first ever Olympics doubles match in the first round of the 2016 Rio games.  Venus and Serena Williams have dominated the women’s tennis game over the years, but the sisters fell short to the Czech team of Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova. The Czech doubles team dominated in […]