The Sports Examiner’s best Olympic-sport performances of the weekend includes spectacular performances by U.S. wrestlers at the World Championships in Paris, where the American men’s Freestyle team partied like it was 1995! => No. 5: […]
PALM DESERT, August 28, 2017 – For fans of Team USA, here was the scenario. If reigning World and Olympic champ Kyle Snyder could beat Russia’s two-time World champ, Abdulrashid Sadulaev, the U.S. would win […]
PALM DESERT, August 25, 2017 – How do you define greatness? Surely, American wrestling star Helen Maroulis fits the bill no matter what criteria you use. She won her third global title in three years […]
PALM DESERT, August 23, 2017 – The 2018 Olympic Winter Games will be held in PyeongChang, South Korea next February. You probably know that already. But it would not have happened if the 1988 Olympic […]
PALM DESERT, August 21, 2017 – There’s an old adage that it’s not how you start, but how you finish. Don’t try telling that to Jamaica’s Usain Bolt after his loss in the 100 meters […]
PALM DESERT, August 18, 2017 – The United States national champion in the women’s Sport Pistol event is Lexi Lagan. Her win at the U.S. Nationals in Ft. Benning, Georgia changed her life, as she […]
PALM DESERT, August 9, 2017 – The International Association of Athletics Federations is enjoying a banner World Championships in London, but there is trouble ahead. Doping scandals, investigations of its past president, a worrysome 2019 […]
PALM DESERT, July 21, 2017 – The swimming portion of the FINA World Championships starts on Sunday with American superstar Katie Ledecky possibly ready to better her own world record in the women’s 400 m […]
PALM DESERT, July 17, 2017 – The International Olympic Committee made a decisive move for the future with its decision to select host cities for both the 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games. Now the International […]
PALM DESERT, July 14, 2017 – The International Olympic Committee gives away 90% of all of its revenue to support the Olympic Movement. Is this, to paraphrase 19th Century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, “lies, […]
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