HEARD AT HALFTIME: Weightlifting could face IOC suspension; AIBA wants a new name and...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Weightlifting ● The fire under the International Weightlifting Federation is getting hotter.
The...
GLOBETROTTING by Phil Hersh: With gold haul from world meets, Biles and Dressel get...
Courage was the key word on the international sports scene in 2019.
Competitive courage, like the grit alpine skier Lindsey Vonn showed in making her...
LANE ONE: The top stories of 2019, from no. 5 to no. 1, a...
Let there be no doubt, this was a wild year in Olympic sport, and as with so many areas today, full of contention, argument...
HIGHLIGHTS: Amazing Shiffrin scores gold and bronze in World Cup in Vermont
Headline results of noteworthy competitions around the world:
● ALPINE SKIING ● The Alpine World Cup is in North America, with women’s racing at Killington,...
HIGHLIGHTS: Shiffrin wins 41st career Slalom in Levi, names reindeer for Ingemar Stenmark
Headline results of noteworthy competitions around the world:
● ALPINE SKIING ● The annual Slalom competitions in Levi, Finland, ended with a fourth reindeer for...
TSX REPORT: Check out our exclusive 718-event calendar of events for 2019-20; IOC wants...
≡ TSX REPORT ~ 17 October 2019 ≡
| 1. | LANE ONE: A big year ahead, as shown by 718 events in our new Stat...
THE BIG PICTURE: USA Gymnastics’ legal marathon with abuse survivors and insurance cos. grinds...
The myriad of cases involving USA Gymnastics and the intertwined lawsuits from survivors of sexual abuse from Dr. Larry Nassar and the federation’s suits...
LANE ONE: A big year ahead, as shown by 718 events in our new...
Trying to cover 41 sports and all of the events on the Olympic and Winter Games program is an almost impossible task. One of...
TSX REPORT: Which marathon was better? 1:59:40 or 2:14:04? Plus a historic Worlds for...
= TSX REPORT ~ 14 October 2019 =
| 1. | LANE ONE: Two marathon milestones in two days, but which was better? 1:59:40 or 2:14:04? Kipchoge or Kosgei?
The...
GYMNASTICS: Biles historic with Beam and Floor wins as U.S. wins eight medals at...
The gymnastics world likely saw the greatest women’s gymnast of all time for the final time in a FIG World Championships in Stuttgart (GER)...
GYMNASTICS: Biles and Carey go 1-2 in Worlds Vault; Lee wins bronze on Uneven...
The first of two days of apparatus finals at the FIG World Championships in Stuttgart (GER), immediately became a showcase for American Simone Biles,...
GYMNASTICS: Favored Nagornyy wins men’s All-Around as Russia goes 1-2
After a bronze-medal finish in the 2018 All-Around, Russia’s Nikita Nagornyy figured it was about time for him to get to the top of...
GYMNASTICS: Biles storms to historic fifth World A-A title by her biggest margin ever
There was very little doubt that American superstar Simone Biles was going to win the women’s All-Around at the World Artistic Championships in Stuttgart...
TSX REPORT: The USOPC issues relaxed athlete ad guidelines for Tokyo; U.S. women win...
≡ TSX REPORT ~ 10 October 2019 ≡
(Never fun to have computer trouble, but it happens and we lost a couple of days. But...
GYMNASTICS: Russia wins first-ever (!) men’s team title at FIG Worlds
Russia and men’s gymnastics are synonymous, right? Not exactly.
The Soviet Union dominated men’s gymnastics in the FIG World Championships, winning in 1954 and 1958...
GYMNASTICS: Biles sets career records for Worlds medals as U.S. women take fifth straight...
The United States women’s national team rolled over their opposition – where have you heard that before – on their way to yet another...
TSX REPORT: Was holding the IAAF Worlds in Doha a good idea? The competition...
= TSX REPORT ~ 7 October 2019 =
| 1. | LANE ONE: Was the IAAF World Championships a success or failure in Doha?
The IAAF World Championships in Doha,...
GYMNASTICS: Biles expected to star and break records at FIG World Championships in Stuttgart
The long history of the FIG World Championships dates back to 1903 for men and 1934 for women. In all that time, there has...
LANE ONE: Are the IAAF World Championships the last laugh for Lamine Diack?
For those who care about track & field – as I do – the current edition of the IAAF World Championships are at the...
TSX DAILY: WADA confirms Russian doping inquiry on data “discrepancies”; Nye and Rogers in...
≡ TSX DAILY ~ 24 September 2019 ≡
| 1. | LEADING OFF: Russian doping data “discrepancies are not random” per AIU
The World Anti-Doping Agency confirmed...
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