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News Articles: Olympics

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Greetings from Paris, where the 2024 Olympics balloon rises again

The floating Olympic cauldron, held aloft by a giant glowing balloon, is still making regular appearances two years after the 2024 Paris Games, showing up all summer long in the nighttime Paris sky.

September 09, 2026
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  • Hannah Bloch
Aerial photograph of the bomb site, before the explosion, released at a December 9, 1996 press conference seeking information on the bombing of Atlanta's Centennial Park during the Summer Olympic Games.

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  • News

A journalist reflects on the hunt for the Olympic Park Bomber

Thirty years ago this week, all eyes were on Atlanta as Georgia hosted the Centennial Olympic Games. Journalist Henry Schuster reflects on the long search for the man who bombed the Games and was ultimately convicted.

July 27, 2026
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By:
  • Peter Biello
Performers mark out the Olympic rings and 100 years commemorating the centenary of the modern Olympic movement during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games opening ceremony in Atlanta Friday, July 19, 1996.

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  • News

30 years later, Chuck Reece reflects on the Atlanta Olympics experience that shook him

Thirty years after the 1996 Olympics, the Games left a permanent impression on the city. Salvation South editor Chuck Reece reflects on his experience.

July 21, 2026
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By:
  • Peter Biello
Performers mark out the Olympic rings and 100 years commemorating the centenary of the modern Olympic movement during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games opening ceremony in Atlanta Friday, July 19, 1996.

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  • News

Atlanta marks 30 years since Olympics as World Cup run wraps up

Sunday will mark 30 years since the opening ceremony of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. It comes as the city wraps up another milestone — serving as a host city in the FIFA World Cup.

July 17, 2026
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  • Orlando Montoya
A man walks outside the Russian National Olympic Committee building in Moscow on Tuesday.

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  • World

The IOC clears the way for Russian athletes to return to Olympic competition

The International Olympic Committee decision effectively overturns a decade-long ban on Russian athletes from international sport imposed due to a state-sponsored doping scandal and Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

July 08, 2026
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By:
  • Charles Maynes,
  • Brian Mann,
  • and 1 more
International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry speaks at the SwissTech Convention Center, in Lausanne, Switzerland, on June 24.

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  • World

International Olympic Committee lifts Russia suspension ahead of 2028 LA Games

The International Olympic Committee advised sports bodies to end a three-year program vetting Russians for neutral status ahead of qualifying events for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

July 07, 2026
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  • The Associated Press
The Olympic Torch still towers over the landscape near Center Parc Stadium, but it's planned to be moved to Centennial Olympic Park.

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  • News

Summerhill residents say proposed Olympic torch relocation erases the neighborhood's history

Atlanta’s Olympic torch is set to move from its place in Summerhill, where it has been since 1996, to Centennial Olympic Park downtown.

June 15, 2026
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
Amber Glenn performs during the Women's short program during the 2026 ISU World Figure Skating Championships on Wednesday.

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  • Sports

Americans seek redemption at figure skating worlds, just weeks after the Olympics

Figure Skating World Championships in Prague end on Saturday. Americans Amber Glenn and Ilia Malinin are within medals' reach after disappointing finishes at last month's Olympics.

March 27, 2026
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  • Rachel Treisman
IOC President Kirsty Coventry is shown on a computer screen as she speaks at a live-streamed press briefing Thursday from Lausanne, Switzerland, about the ban on transgender athletes in women's events.

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  • Sports

The Olympic committee bans trans athletes from women's events, raising many questions

The International Olympic Committee will require all athletes who want to participate in women's events to undergo genetic testing. The policy takes effect for the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.

March 27, 2026
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  • Rachel Treisman
Brody Malone is interviewed by Berry College President Sandeep Mazumder on March 3, 2026. Berry hosted the Olympic gymnast and Rockmart native as part of the Cecil B. Wright III Integrity in Leadership Lecture Series. Photo by Brant Sanderlin/Berry College

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  • Sports

Olympic-winning gymnast and Rockmart native Brody Malone speaks at Berry College

On Tuesday, Olympic bronze medalist and Rockmart, Ga., native Brody Malone spoke at Berry College as a guest lecturer.

March 04, 2026
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  • GPB News Staff
From left: Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO), Punch (lonely monkey) and Flavor Flav (icon).

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  • National

Forget the State of the Union. What's the state of your quiz score?

What's the state of your union, quiz-wise? Find out!

February 27, 2026
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  • Holly J. Morris
American rapper and television personality Flavor Flav watches on during the Women's Monobob Bobsleigh at the Cortina Sliding Centre, on Sunday February 15, 2026 at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, Italy.

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  • Arts & Life

Flavor Flav is among women's hockey team fans outraged by presidential snub

The rapper, who also serves as the official "hype man" for multiple U.S. Olympic teams, invited the female hockey players to Las Vegas for a "real celebration."

February 26, 2026
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  • Neda Ulaby
On a sunny Sunday morning smack-dab in the middle of the Winter Olympics, the line to enter Milan's Official Olympic Pin Trading center was out the door and steadily growing.

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  • Pop Culture

Pin trading has taken over the Olympics. Here's what it's like in Milan

Pin trading has become a hallmark of the Olympics in recent decades — and not just for athletes. An official trading center in Milan was a hotspot for longtime collectors and curious newcomers alike.

February 21, 2026
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  • Rachel Treisman
Ghana's Akwasi Frimpong takes part in a training session for the men's skeleton event in the 2018 Olympics.

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  • Sports

'Dude, good luck': the Olympic wit and wisdom of a pioneering African skeleton racer

Who says serious athletes are always serious? Akwasi Frimpong, who's competed for Ghana, is a world-class wisecracker as he reflects on being a Black African athlete in the white world of winter sports.

February 19, 2026
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  • Jonathan Lambert
United States gold medalist Elana Meyers Taylor celebrates at the finish after the women's monobob competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026.(AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

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  • Sports

Gold for Elana Meyers Taylor at last! Georgian, 41, wins Olympic monobob title

Elana Meyers Taylor of the U.S. finally won bobsled gold in her fifth Olympics. 

February 16, 2026
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