Carissa Moore of Honolulu, Hawaii, is the top-ranked female surfer in the world and a four-time world champion. She won a world title at 18, becoming the youngest person to achieve that feat. Moore is one of four Americans competing for the USA Surfing Team in the sport’s Olympic debut in Tokyo. Moore learned to surf ... Read More»

The Olympics are about more than dazzling feats of athletic prowess, stirring pageantry and how often a country’s anthem is played during gold medal presentations. They also sound a clarion call for world peace. It’s a tradition dating back to the first games in 776 B.C.E., when the kings of three warring Greek city-states struck a ... Read More»