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Media playback is not supported on this device Brilliant Simone Biles wins women’s all-around gymnastics gold It made sense that Buzz Aldrin, a man who has walked on the moon and lived without gravity, was in Rio to watch a teenage compatriot defy the earth’s forces like no other athlete in history. The former astronaut cheered as the United States won the women’s gymnastics team title on Tuesday and saluted…

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On Sunday, NBC gymnastics commentator Al Trautwig wrote on Twitter that dominant American gymnast Simone Biles’s parents are not actually her parents. Later, he deleted the tweet and apologized for it, but the internet, as it always does, remembered. Biles’s parents are her biological grandparents, who adopted her when she was a child. Trautwig’s tweet was seen as offensive to people who are adopted — and as…

Michael Phelps has already made an impression during the 2016 Rio Olympics. His death stare has been turned into a viral meme and he’s won three gold medals. Phelps, who came out of retirement to compete in Rio, has brought lots of attention to the sport of swimming, but his biggest contribution may be what his fame has done for other athletes. According to Chuck Wielgus, the executive director of…

9:30 PM “I expect that we can have an encounter in Rio.” These were the words of world No. 1 Ma Long in an interview before the Games discussing his desire to meet Zhang Jike in the gold medal match in Rio. And what an encounter it was. Ma shocked the table tennis world, sweeping his countryman and reigning Olympic champion Zhang to claim gold. Many predicted that Ma would…

Photo via Republic of Korea The Olympics are a curious thing, because they are at once exceptionally brilliant but also really nerdy and crap and sad. Like, these people spend every day, day after day, for four years, training to do exactly one thing, and that thing is, like, judo. Imagine for a moment your life is a professional judoer. How embarrassed would you be going to the bar with…

On Sunday, NBC gymnastics commentator Al Trautwig wrote on Twitter that dominant American gymnast Simone Biles’s parents are not actually her parents. Later, he deleted the tweet and apologized for it, but the internet, as it always does, remembered. Biles’s parents are her biological grandparents, who adopted her when she was a child. Trautwig’s tweet was seen as offensive to people who are adopted — and as…

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Om Yun Chol of North Korea competes during the men’s 56 kg category at the 2016 Olympic Games’ weightlifting events in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 7. (Nic Bothman/European Pressphoto Agency) It’s hard to fathom the excitement and stress athletes from all over the world feel when competing at the Olympic Games. But imagine if you were in Rio representing one of the most notoriously authoritarian regimes in the world. How would you feel then? Would…

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Netflix-and-Cheer Night: All fans in attendance can watch “Mean Girls” on the Jumbotron while rooting for the home team. Unless “Mean Girls” isn’t on Netflix. (It was last time I checked, but that doesn’t mean anything.) If “Mean Girls” isn’t available, the crowd can look on as someone scrolls through other movie titles until the game is over or another worthwhile option is found—whichever occurs first. Followed by fireworks. Heartburn-Prevention…

Ever since the steroid era, baseball fans have been cautious about reading too much into unexpected leaps in player performance. Today’s jaded rooters assume that performance-enhancing drugs are to blame, somehow, whenever a player experiences a breakout or the league undergoes a transformation. So it’s no surprise that, with home runs flying out of parks at nearly an all-time high in 2016, many have reacted by assigning the responsibility to…

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Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Special needs children throughout South Florida will soon have the opportunity of a lifetime when they get to play baseball on their own dedicated and specially designed baseball field. That’s because the Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department and the Parks Foundation of Miami-Dade in partnership with the Miracle League of Miami-Dade County (MLOMD) and the Marlins Foundation will break ground on Saturday afternoon on the…

Two fans ignore the rain delay and celebrate atop the Minnesota Twins dugout during a rain delay in a baseball game against the Houston Astros Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016 in Minneapolis. The Houston-Minnesota game was postponed Wednesday by persistent rain that started in the third inning and was forecast to last throughout the night. (AP Photo/Jim Mone) In a few years from now, we’ll fondly recall the days when people…

The website of the organization that oversees competitive swimming in Australian has come under cyber attack, allegedly in connection with an Australian swimmer calling a Chinese competitor at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics a “drug cheat,” according to a report. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports that the site remains operational despite a denial of service (DoS) attack where the site is overwhelmed by requests and stops functioning. The site’s operators…

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Who to Watch: Men: The men’s individual all-round can be seen Wednesday. Japan’s Kohei Uchimura is the favorite to take gold (Update: he won gold); watch out, though for China’s Deng Shundi, widely viewed as the gymnast most likely to upset Uchimura. Brazil’s Arthur Zanetti, the defending Olympic champion, is also in the mix. Women: The spotlight is on USA’s Simone Biles, 19, viewed as the…

Racing 31 miles on foot is no easy feat. And let’s say you also have to always have at least one foot on the ground. And your knee has to be locked straight whenever you take a step forward. And you can’t float mid-stride to propel yourself forward. This is what happens in the Olympic race walk, where competitors break seven-minute miles under these constraints….