THE BIG PICTURE: USA Gymnastics estimates $75 million cost of Nassar’s claims on insurance
There was significant reporting this past week about the filings by USA Gymnastics of its 2017 financial statements and its IRS Form 990 tax...
LANE ONE: Fasten your seat belt: The Olympic Movement has a rough November ahead
This promises to be a turbulent week for the Olympic Movement with two major off-the-field events taking place in Canada and Azerbaijan and at...
THE BIG PICTURE: USOC timing slaps USAG athletes right before their World Champs
The United States Olympic Committee announcement that it will begin the process to de-certify USA Gymnastics as the National Governing Body for gymnastics came...
LANE ONE: Not all hosting costs are going down; Budapest to spend $111 million...
The plague of high costs which has confounded the International Olympic Committee, especially in attracting cities to host the Olympic Winter Games is spreading...
THE BIG PICTURE: Baumann’s World Urban Games becoming a reality
The newest multi-sport competition is the “World Urban Games,” a project of the late Swiss IOC member Patrick Baumann, who was the Secretary-General of...
LANE ONE: U.S. Olympic Committee drops the hammer on USA Gymnastics, but also on...
The FIG World Championships in Artistic Gymnastics finished in Doha (QAT) on Saturday. On Monday, new U.S. Olympic Committee chief executive, Sarah Hirshland, announced...
ANTI-DOPING: A call for ethics in sports medicine
The chief of the United States Anti-Doping Agency is now campaigning about more than doping; he’s now working on ethical use of allowed drugs.
Travis...
THE BIG PICTURE: IOC tells Int’l Biathlon Union they are OK (and starts sending...
One of the international sports federations in hot water over the past several months has been the International Biathlon Union (IBU), which had its...
LANE ONE: Boxing elects “organized crime” leader Rakhimov as president; now what?
Elections of international federation presidents aren’t usually too exciting except for those in the sport. There are exceptions, of course, and one of those...
THE BIG PICTURE: “Emergency summit” rips WADA for Russian reinstatement
An “emergency summit” of national anti-doping agencies and athletes was called by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and the...
LANE ONE: Calgary 2026 bid comes back from the dead … on Halloween!
On Wednesday, the Calgary City Council voted 8-7 to kill the city’s bid for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games and yet the bid still...
THE BIG PICTURE: Kuwait’s Sheikh Ahmad steps down from IOC and ANOC posts after...
The current explosion in the Olympic world is the saga of Kuwait’s Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, the head of the Association of National Olympic...
THE BIG PICTURE: Civil war among the anti-doping agencies? Yes!
The internal battle in the world anti-doping community is continuing unabated, as the Institute of National Anti-Doping Organizations (iNADO) is calling for “meaningful reform...
LANE ONE: Realpolitik in Calgary as Mayor Nehshi could end its 2026 bid on...
Whether Calgary continues its bid for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games has come down to a question of money.
And the bid could end on...
THE BIG PICTURE: Boxing federation election controversy continues
With the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Congress and its presidential election coming on 3 November, the activity surrounding it has increased dramatically.
The Court of...
LANE ONE: Why is the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique such a Scrooge?
The World Championships in Artistic Gymnastics is on for the next week in Doha, Qatar, with a star-studded field that includes not less than...
LANE ONE: Bach’s Olympic vision takes shape: City-center spectacle and fewer venues
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach of Germany has plenty of critics, but say this for him: he has a vision.
Since being elected to...
THE BIG PICTURE: Now the leading candidate for the boxing presidency might resign if...
"Should I be given the trust by AIBA members and be elected AIBA President, then also details about my position, background etc. will be...
LANE ONE: As the 2020 Olympic Games draw near, Tokyo is suddenly the problem
No one will say it, even in a whisper.
No one in the Olympic Movement even wants to think about it.
But the Olympic Games in...
THE BIG PICTURE: Ex-USA Gymnastics chief Steve Penny indicted
When former USA Gymnastics chief executive Steve Penny (pictured) declined to answer any questions last June from the U.S. Senate Commerce Sub-committee that was...
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