MILLER TIME: How Risk Averse Is Tokyo’s Postponement?
(It’s a pleasure to present this guest column by one of the most knowledgeable observers of the Olympic Movement, Britain’s David Miller. For more...
THE BIG PICTURE: Tokyo 2020 moves forward slowly, but talk about the Games is...
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LANE ONE: Bach underlines partnership with organizers as Dakar 2022 YOG moved to 2026;...
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LANE ONE: FINA’s own status report sees a bright future for aquatic sports, but...
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LANE ONE: USOC’s transformative spokesman, Mike Moran, passes at 78
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LANE ONE: Only half-baked: U.S. athlete statement demands that they must be heard, then...
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HEARD AT HALFTIME: Miller Time on the IOC and protests; World Ath gives $579,000...
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MILLER TIME: Olympic Ethic Outweighs Protest
(This guest column is by one of the most knowledgeable observers of the Olympic Movement, Britain’s David Miller. For more than 50 years, the...
LANE ONE: Protest or not to protest? The IOC’s choices are hardly black or...
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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: Staggering, brilliant, astonishing portal to Olympic history opens with debut of Olympedia.org
What makes the Olympic Games different from all other competitions in sport is history.
From its beginning as a religious festival in ancient Greece to...
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...
LANE ONE: Was Juan Antonio Samaranch, the man who made the IOC modern, its...
In the continuing tumult over the future of the Tokyo Games and the worldwide struggle with the coronavirus, the 10-year anniversary of the passing...
THE BIG PICTURE: Japan and IOC agree to move Games to sometime in 2021;...
“In the present circumstances and based on the information provided by the WHO today, the IOC President and the Prime Minister of Japan have...
THE BIG PICTURE: IOC acknowledges planning for postponement, with decision coming within four weeks
“So, like you, we are in a dilemma: Cancellation of the Olympic Games would destroy the Olympic dream of 11,000 athletes from all 206...
LANE ONE: De Coubertin’s 1892 Olympic-revival manifesto is back in Lausanne, but what did...
On Monday, the International Olympic Committee gleefully welcomed the donation of the original manuscript of Baron Pierre de Coubertin’s 1892 speech that called for...
LANE ONE: Edwin Moses is right when he says protests can’t be stopped, but...
While the Tokyo organizers fret about the potential impact of the expanding coronavirus threat to this summer’s Olympic Games in Japan, discussions about the...
LANE ONE: Should all Olympians be paid? Be careful what you ask for, because...
(Before getting too far, condolences are due to the family and many friends of basketball superstar – and two-time Olympic gold medalist – Kobe...
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...
LANE ONE: The top stories coming in 2020, part 2: More courtroom drama, more...
Look for tumultuous year on and off the field of play in 2020, with the Tokyo Games coming, but a lot of drama before...
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