Scenes from the Olympics.

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• The Olympics Sap-o-Meter The Sap-o-Meter bids a tearful farewell. Plus: the Sappiest Word of the 2008 Olympic Games.
  Chris Wilson Aug. 25, 2008
  
• Dunks, Mom, and Apple Pie The marketing genius of USA Basketball's "Redeem Team."
  Tommy Craggs Aug. 22, 2008
  
• The Olympics Sap-o-Meter After a week of Olympic-sized schmaltz, the Sap-o-Meter battles adversity.
  Derek Thompson Aug. 22, 2008
  
• The Olympics Sap-o-Meter Usain Bolt might be the world's fastest man, but mom runs away with the night yet again.
  Josh Levin Aug. 21, 2008
  
• Olympic-Sized Racism Remembering the 1904 games, where Indians, Pygmies, and other "savages" faced off in the interest of science.
  Nate DiMeo Aug. 21, 2008
  
• Remember When Decathletes Were Cool? Why the world stopped caring about track and field's most grueling event.
  Robert Weintraub Aug. 20, 2008
  
• The Olympics Sap-o-Meter NBC reaches yet another milestone on its magically sappy Olympic journey.
  Derek Thompson Aug. 20, 2008
  
• Newborn Demigod Contemplating the media presence of Michael Phelps.
  Troy Patterson Aug. 20, 2008
  
• The Olympics Sap-o-Meter "We saw people all around this stadium, as we were leaving, in tears, sobbing uncontrollably."
  Josh Levin Aug. 19, 2008
  
• Like Regular Ping-Pong, With Concussions In praise of doubles table tennis.
  Robert Weintraub Aug. 18, 2008
  
• Taking Sprinting to New Heights The 6-foot-5 Usain Bolt set a world record in the 100-meter dash. Short sprinters, beware.
  Edward McClelland Aug. 17, 2008
  
• The Olympics Sap-o-Meter More tears, more moms, more dreams, and three new Sap-o-Meter records.
  Josh Levin Aug. 16, 2008
  
• Beach Bums Why are beach-volleyball players always patting each other on the butt?
  Troy Patterson Aug. 15, 2008
  
• The Ballerina vs. the Energizer Bunny Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson battle for the women's gymnastics all-around title.
  Meghan O'Rourke Aug. 15, 2008
  
• The Olympics Sap-o-Meter A new rivalry in the sport of schmaltz: dream vs. mom.
  Chris Wilson Aug. 15, 2008
  
• The Olympics Sap-o-Meter On a night of dreams, NBC saves its syrup for Michael Phelps.
  Josh Levin Aug. 14, 2008
  
• The Silver Lining The U.S. women's gymnastics team overturned cultural cliches in the team event.
  Meghan O'Rourke Aug. 13, 2008
  
• The Olympics Sap-o-Meter Just like Michael Phelps: another day, another record.
  Derek Thompson Aug. 13, 2008
  
• Explainer's Olympics Roundup Your questions about the Games, with answers from our archives.
  Derek Thompson Aug. 13, 2008
  
• "Why Not Just Use Beavers?" NBC's visit to the Three Gorges Dam, and other Olympics coverage highlights.
  Troy Patterson Aug. 12, 2008
  
• Down With the Perfect 10! A mathematician explains the genius of the new gymnastics scoring system.
  Jordan Ellenberg Aug. 12, 2008
  
• The Sap-o-Meter Widget Embed our Olympics schmaltz tracker on your blog, iGoogle, or Facebook page.
  Aug. 12, 2008
  
• The Olympics Sap-o-Meter The sap reaches a record high. Blame mom.
  Josh Levin Aug. 12, 2008
  
• Dispatches From Beijing The science of DJing an Olympic beach volleyball match.
  Jacob Leibenluft Aug. 11, 2008
  
• The Olympics Sap-o-Meter Finally, a scientific way to measure the sappiness of NBC's Olympics coverage.
  Derek Thompson Aug. 11, 2008
  
• Bad Interpretive Dancing To Be Added to 2012 Olympics Lineup The latest from the SlateOlympics Twitter feed.
  Aug. 7, 2008
  
• China Goes for (All of) the Gold Economists predict whether the host country will rule the Beijing Olympics.
  Daniel Gross Aug. 7, 2008
  
• The Beijing Olympics: a Visitors' Guide What should I eat? How much should I tip? Is that kid peeing in the street?
  Tom Scocca Aug. 7, 2008
  
• Summer Olympics Disaster Guide: Opening Ceremony Edition The Olympics are all set to kick off. What could possibly go wrong?
  Lucy Morrow Caldwell Aug. 7, 2008
  
• The 2008 Olympics A roundup of Slate's coverage of China and the Beijing Games.
  Aug. 6, 2008
  
• Full Speedo Ahead Can Michael Phelps' cutting-edge swimsuit make me a better swimmer?
  Sara Dickerman Aug. 6, 2008
  
• Swifter, Higher, Cuddlier Stop picking on Beijing's Olympic mascots.
  Seth Stevenson July 24, 2008
  
• Dara Torres, Demystified Do the swimmer's "secrets to success" hold up?
  Amanda Schaffer July 16, 2008
  
• Summer Olympics Disaster Guide What could go wrong in Beijing? Everything.
  Lucy Morrow Caldwell July 2, 2008