5,130 Olympic and Paralympic medals are being made for the Rio Olympics. It takes 48 hours to make each medal. Here is how they are made.
 

Olympic athletes look like tiny toys in these pictures specially blurred in order to achieve a shallow depth of field.

Being second is certainly not enough for these athletes all aiming for gold.

These doubles of athletes and famous persons at the 2012 Olympic Games in London are something that can’t be unseen.

Created in 2001 in Montreal this unique sports blends yoga, acrobatics, and healing arts. While not yet an Olympic sport this difficult partner sport has been catching on for those strong and bold enough to attempt it.

Sometimes the Olympics seem a hair’s breadth away from the wrong channel.

Believe it or not there is an actual “Hipster Olympics” with actual events, such as “horn-rimmed glasses toss” and skinny jeans tog o’ war” held in Germany. 

A hard case Olympian (Ariane Friedrich) outs an alleged stalker on Facebook, (potentially violating German privacy laws), triggers debate. Some life lessons to be learned?

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These images show what many Chinese kids have to endure in order to one day make it to the Olympics. While kids are generally very pliable and flexible, these poor tykes are literally being bent into pretzels.