Pita Taufatofua, the hunky Tongan flag-bearer from the Rio Olympics, is back and competing in the Winter Olympics Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses on human interest ...

For the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, the Tongan athlete braved the cold and bore the country’s flag shirtless. He represented his country again in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo ...

Pita Taufatofua, the Tongan athlete who became an instant Olympic icon when he emerged shiny and shirtless carrying his country’s flag during the Olympic Opening Ceremony in Rio two years ago ...

Pita Taufatofua first went viral for representing Tonga as a flag bearer while shirtless and oiled-up during the 2016 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony Don't expect to see Tongan Olympian Pita ...

On Friday night, there was one flag bearer who garnered attention for what he wasn’t wearing. Tonga, a Pacific island nation of just over 100,000 people, chose Pita Nikolas Taufatofua ...

Ash from the powerful volcanic eruption near Tonga last Saturday is clearly visible in a series of images taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Shared by NASA in a ...

There’s no masking those oiled-up muscles. Tongan flag bearer Pita Taufatofua set pulses racing yet again Friday as he returned shirtless and slathered in oil for his third Olympics — this ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Tonga flag bearer was back on Sunday night for the closing ceremony, and you better believe he was shirtless. Pita Nikolas Taufatofua, an athlete from the small island ...