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Tamara Press, Olympic athletics champion whose career was overshadowed by doubts about her gender – obituary The two Press sisters won six Olympic medals between them but retired following the introduction of gender testing Tamara Press, right, and her sister Irina Credit: SPUTNIK/Alamy Tamara Press, the former Soviet athlete, who has died aged 83, won gold medals at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics; but her career, like that of her younger sister Irina, was dogged by speculation about her gender, an enigma left unresolved when both sisters abruptly withdrew from competition in 1966. In Rome in 1...

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April 13, 2021 at 11:40 pm by Jadon Bienz Courtesy of Britannica Newsflash: The Cold War was intense. The 40-some years that followed World War II were marked by increasing political tensions between the U.S. and Soviet Russia, leaching into almost all aspects of daily life. Beyond the pre-emptive nuclear war drills taught to school children and the constant threat of mutually assured atomic destruction, a cultural war was being fought. Politicians like Wisconsin’s notoriously accusatory Senator Joseph McCarthy capitalized on the “Red Scare” to gain power, while the S...