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25 Jul

Want to follow the women’s gymnastics at #Tokyo2020, but don’t understand the skills or how they’re scored? Here’s a guide. 🤸‍♀️

Starting with the vault: Gymnasts sprint up to the vault, propel themselves into the air and perform flips and twists. nyti.ms/3iMeBO4

The balance beam that Olympic gymnasts compete on is 16 feet long, four feet high and four inches wide — or the width of a coronavirus vaccination card. nyti.ms/3rxWbV3

On the uneven bars, Olympic gymnasts will perform moves on two bars set about six feet apart. Good routines will have a deceptively effortless-seeming flow.

Easier said than done. nyti.ms/3eSlNam

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23 Jul

Formal Olympian wardrobes are often very traditional, or even boring; they generally resemble golf pro outfits. They are rarely “cool” — and rarely available to smaller countries with less promotional muscle.

But this year Liberia changed that narrative.
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Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world. They have never won an Olympic medal and have had to scrounge for sponsorships before almost every Games.

Until now. That’s where Telfar Clemens comes in. nyti.ms/3rzausK

Clemens is a Liberian American designer who has created deconstructed unisex basics that have received attention from celebrities like Beyoncé. His popular handbags, called “the Bushwick Birkin,” have become passports to this new world. nyti.ms/3rzausK

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23 Jul

The Olympics have officially kicked off. We followed four elite athletes and deconstructed what makes each one’s technique so special.

To visualize the athletes’ movements, we used video and data captured during training sessions to create 3-D models.

As climbing makes its Olympics debut, the Czech athlete Adam Ondra enters the Games as the sport’s biggest star. He is the rare climber who can be considered the world’s most accomplished in both outdoor and competition climbing. nyti.ms/3iCzAms

The gymnast Sunisa Lee, 18, will be one of four representing the U.S. in the team competition at the Olympics. She is favored to win an individual medal in the uneven bars, one of the hardest events in women’s gymnastics. nyti.ms/3y5WWHu

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20 Jul

She said she married him for love. Her parents said he forced her to convert to Islam. In India, interfaith marriages are becoming increasingly illegal. nyti.ms/2UtWtQP

A Sikh by birth, Manmeet Kour Bali converted to Islam to marry Shahid Nazir Bhat. Her parents filed a police complaint, claiming he kidnapped her. Members of her community called the marriage “love jihad,” the idea that Muslim men marry women of other faiths to spread Islam.

In court, Bali testified that she had married for love. Days later, she ended up in New Delhi, married to a Sikh man.

These papers indicate that Bali is legally married to Bhat and that she willingly converted to Islam. nyti.ms/2VPOKwH

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19 Jul

Thousands of Native American children were forcibly removed from their families and sent to U.S. boarding schools dedicated to eradicating Indigenous culture.

Many died. Those who lived are still struggling to make sense of who they were and who they are.
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Students were prohibited from speaking their Indigenous languages. Their personal belongings were taken away or destroyed.

Bessie Smith, who is now 79 and continues to use the name given to her at her former boarding school in Arizona, said she nearly forgot her native tongue.

Those who survived the schools described violence as routine. “I thought that it was part of school,” said Norman Lopez, now 78, who was sent to a boarding school in southwestern Colorado around age 6.

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19 Jul

How do you convey a person’s name in American Sign Language? We spoke to a group of people who created an ASL name sign for Kamala Harris to find out. nyti.ms/3hP1VH1

Name signs in deaf culture are more than just shortcuts to identify someone without having to spell out a name in full. They are an expression of a person’s identity, and are unique to the individual.

Name signs can reference an individual’s appearance, interests or general attitude.

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