The World Archery Federation has come under fire for using a “racist” font to introduce the South Korean women’s team. World Archery had shared a video on Twitter showing who was competing in individual rounds for the Korean team. Each archer’s name was written in a “chop suey” font, also known as the “wonton” font, that emulates brush strokes from Chinese…
Tokyo Olympics officials are providing 160,000 condoms to athletes to use only in their home countries. Starting on 23 July, the Tokyo Olympics will be the first major global sporting event since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. International spectators are barred from attending the event and the number of foreign athletes willing to show up still remains questionable. However, it…
Mashable reports that Olympic gymnast Farah Ann Abdul Hadi is the first Malaysian to have a Barbie doll modelled after her. Born in Selangor, Farah is a Malaysian artistic gymnast. She has won seven golds in the Southeast Asian Games. The 26-year-old has also qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Created by Mattel, the doll is part of Barbie’s Dream Gap project, which…
Google Doodle is celebrating Filipino American Olympic diver Vicki Draves. The tech giant shared images of Draves diving into a pool and another picture of her sporting her two gold medals. Today in 1948, Draves made history by becoming the first first Asian-American woman to win a medal at the Olympics. Winning gold in the women’s 3-meter springboard event at the London Summer Olympics,…
Olympic snowboarder Chloe Kim has written a letter to her mother Boran Yun Kim for Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day is just around the corner on 13 May 2018. To mark the occasion, Olympic snowboarder and gold medalist Chloe Kim has written a letter to her mother Boran Yun Kim. In a short feature for ESPN, Kim is seen at reading her…
Getty Images has come under fire after confusing Kelly Marie Tran with Olympian Mirai Nagasu on the Oscars red carpet. American stock photo agency Getty Images has come under fire after mixing up Star Wars: The Last Jedi actress Kelly Marie Tran with Olmypian Mirai Nagasu on the Oscars red carpet Both women were wearing similar coloured dresses but are clearly two…
NBC has fired Olympic analyst Joshua Cooper Ramo after he made insulting comments towards South Koreans. The BBC reports that NBC Olympic analyst was commenting on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s attendance at the Pyeongchang Games when he made the comments. After describing Japan as a “country which occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945”, Ramo added,“but every Korean will tell you that Japan is a…
A record for the number of Asian Americans in Team USA’s Pyeongchang Winter Olympics figure skating team has been set. CNN reports that 50% of the Team USA’s figure skaters (7/14) are Asian Americans: Karen Chen, Nathan Chen, Madison Chock, Mirai Nagasu, the sibling ice dancers Maia and Alex Shibutani and Vincent Zhou. Nathan Chen, 18, is a favourite to medal in the…
Team USA entered the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics opening ceremony to PSY’s hit ‘Gangnam Style’. Today marks the official start of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. For the next few weeks, the Pyeongchang Olympic village will be home to 3,894 athletes and team officials, while a second village in Gangneung is accommodating over than 2,900 personnel. To mark the start of the…
Japan is planning to make their medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics out of used cell phones and other electronic devices. The host country is hoping to make the Olympics medals out of the gold, silver and bronze found in the devices. Japan has plenty of e-waste to recycle and fortunately, Olympics medals don’t require too much metal. A gold medal…
