HEARD AT HALFTIME: Comebacking Bromell steams to 9.90 win in Florida; honors for Jim...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport (updated):
● Athletics ● The comeback story of 2020 is 2016 Olympic sprinter...
THE TICKER: Tokyo 2020+1 marks year-to-go; FINA relief project up to $6.46 million; Michael...
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LANE ONE: IOC’s 2019 financial statements show $2.1 billion in advances to organizing committees;...
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THE BIG PICTURE: Tokyo 2020 moves forward slowly, but talk about the Games is...
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THE BIG PICTURE: Bach warns of new boycott threats; Tokyo confirms venues; IOC approves...
Amidst the concerns for the staging of the next Olympic Games in Tokyo, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach (GER) opened the 136th IOC...
THE TICKER: Pound opines if Tokyo ‘21 cancels, so might Beijing ‘22; The Athletics...
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LANE ONE: Bach underlines partnership with organizers as Dakar 2022 YOG moved to 2026;...
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THE TICKER: Houlihan shatters own U.S. 5,000 m mark; three winter stars pass this...
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HEARD AT HALFTIME: Koike crushes 21 others for re-election; AIBA-WBA tie-up coming? WADA’s Banka...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Games of the XXXII Olympiad: Tokyo 2020 ● Incumbent Yuriko Koike won...
LANE ONE: Only half-baked: U.S. athlete statement demands that they must be heard, then...
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LANE ONE: Protest or not to protest? The IOC’s choices are hardly black or...
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HEARD AT HALFTIME: Diack calls son “a thug,” Tokyo sponsors wavering on 2021, Australia-New...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Vox Populi ● Further to our Lane One column for 10 June...
LANE ONE: Racism becomes issue one for IOC, but consensus will be favored over...
There are plenty of people who will tell you the International Olympic Committee is deaf. Not this time.
Although the preparations for Tokyo 2020 were...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Ajan says McLaren Report charges “unfounded” while 11-year-old skateboarder Brown survives...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
“The claims against me are unfounded”
That’s the reply of former International Weightlifting Federation...
LANE ONE: American athletes should write their own version of the IOC’s Rule 50:...
“The IOC’s current position is very clear in regards to protest. Whether you agree or not, and choose to follow the rules, will be...
MILLER TIME: Thomas Bach’s bid to upstage Sisyphus
/It’s a great pleasure to present this guest column by one of the most knowledgeable observers of the Olympic Movement, Britain’s David Miller. For...
LANE ONE: It isn’t easy being an Olympic athlete in almost any sport, and...
It’s hard enough to be an Olympic athlete, especially from hyper-competitive teams like the United States, China, Germany, Great Britain, Japan and elsewhere.
It got...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Remembering the day Jesse Owens set six world records in 45...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Athletics ● Today is Memorial Day in the United States, remembering those...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: What’s in the IOC’s $650 million cost for postponing Tokyo; Stefanidi...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Vox Populi ● We received a lot of response to Sunday’s Lane...
LANE ONE: Bach asks for “frugal Games” in Tokyo; what can be learned from...
For those of a certain age, who lived through a prior crisis that threatened the existence of the Olympic Games, it was simply staggering...
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