After 125 years, time to say “Thanks, Baron” one more time
PALM DESERT, November 24, 2017 – This Saturday will mark 125 years since a 29-year-old Frenchman named Pierre de Coubertin proposed that the Olympic...
Who makes more: Track stars or World Cup skiers?
PALM DESERT, November 17, 2017 – Alpine skiers have to be the princes and princesses of the Olympic-sport world, don’t they?
Training and competing at...
Don’t they know that the Olympics is mostly a television show?
PALM DESERT, November 15, 2017 – There’s a lot of angst over lower ticket sales for February’s PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games. One Korean academic...
Individual justice vs. collective responsibility, or is it the IOC vs. the IAAF?
PALM DESERT, November 13, 2017 – Over the next four weeks, both the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)...
The cheapest, most undeserved gold medal in Olympic history
PALM DESERT, November 10, 2017 – What will happen to the Russian team at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Korea?
Will the International Olympic...
Between Scylla and Charybdis: IOC president Thomas Bach
PALM DESERT, November 3, 2017 – The famed Greek poet Homer wrote about two terrors that had to be faced at the same time...
World bobsled champ Elana Meyers Taylor: “I’ve crashed more times than I can count”
PALM DESERT, November 1, 2017 – Being World Champion doesn’t mean you have all the answers. Elana Meyers Taylor, who won the 2017 world...
German court will hear challenge to IOC’s sponsor exclusivity Rule 40
PALM DESERT, October 30, 2017 – Very few athletes can quote chapter and verse from the Olympic Charter, the rulebook of the International Olympic...
Coming soon: the sports marketing spectacle of the 21st Century … or a train...
PALM DESERT, October 27, 2017 – The 2028 Olympic Games have been awarded to Los Angeles. The 2026 FIFA World Cup could be assigned...
Innsbruck’s message to the IOC: Even a zero-cost Games isn’t worth the hassle
PALM DESERT, October 18, 2017 – The failure of the referendum supporting a bid for the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck and the Tyrol...
The “other” anthem protest: Wayne Collett, Vince Matthews and the 1972 Games
PALM DESERT, September 29, 2017 – The current furor over sitting, standing, protesting and counter-protesting of the U.S. national anthem is old news for...
Winter Games warm-up: Five names to know (Part I)
PALM DESERT, September 11, 2017 – We’re barely finished with summer and it’s less than five months from the start of the 2018 Olympic...
What is fairness? The IAAF, Caster Semenya and “intersex” athletes
PALM DESERT, July 5, 2017 – South Africa’s reigning Olympic 800 m champion Caster Semenya has been a lightning rod for controversy since her...
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