Female lifters say they are told that the sport will make them unattractive to male suitors; marriage is still considered the most important event in a young Emirati woman’s life.

“A lot of women say, ‘Wow, look at her body,’ ” Al Haddad said. “They ask me how to get lean, and when I say I weight lift, they get scared. But it’s the 21st century now. I don’t want to get married until I make the Olympics.”

(via Amid Glares, Female Muslim Weightlifters Compete - NYTimes.com)

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Gabby Douglas single-handedly undoes all of First Lady Michelle Obama’s hard work on her “Let’s Move” campaign. 

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The real Fab Five of these Olympic games.

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OMG. I CANNOT BREATHE.

THE BEST

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I knew I’d found my people a long time ago but this really solidifies it.

Basically. But I sure am enjoying the hell out of George Michael’s performance.

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FTW! Claressa Shields, 17, became the first U.S. women’s boxing gold medalist today. She defeated Russia’s Nadezda Torlopova to take gold in the middleweight division.

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For Ryan Lambiasi, the physical education teacher at the school, on East 30th Street, determining winners is less important than teaching his students to want to win. The teachers have taken advantage of the London Olympics to stir the students’ interest and help them make sense of “who they are and how they fit into the world,” said Tina McCourt, the school’s program director. (It may sound like a common enough problem, but it is especially difficult for autistic children to grasp, she said.)

The concept of competition helps them relate to other people, and the Olympics — the grandest international competition of them all — give them another opportunity to comprehend the outside world, Ms. McCourt said.

via School Uses Olympics to Teach Autistic Students in Manhattan - NYTimes.com