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THE TICKER: Pound opines if Tokyo ‘21 cancels, so might Beijing ‘22; The Athletics...
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HEARD AT HALFTIME: Court of Arbitration for Sport sets hearings for Russia, Salazar &...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Court of Arbitration for Sport ● It will be a busy November...
LANE ONE: It isn’t easy being an Olympic athlete in almost any sport, and...
It’s hard enough to be an Olympic athlete, especially from hyper-competitive teams like the United States, China, Germany, Great Britain, Japan and elsewhere.
It got...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Are the IOC and Japan falling out of love? Can a...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Games of the XXXII Olympiad: Tokyo 2020 ● “The International Olympic Committee...
THE TICKER: Weightlifting loses two presidents; is Thomas Bach an IOC immortal? Cycling needs...
The latest news, notes and quotes from the worldwide Five-Ring Circus:
● Weightlifting ● An era ended on Wednesday, as International Weightlifting Federation chief Tamas...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Chile proposes cheap Pan Am Games … at $507 million; the...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● XIX Pan American Games 2023 ● The organizing committee of the 2023...
CYCLING: Bernal cruises into Paris as first Colombian rider to win the Tour de...
The final ride into Paris was only a formality for Colombia’s Egan Bernal – just 22 – to become the winner of the 106th...
CYCLING: Nibali wins emotional, shortened Stage 20 as Bernal set to win Tour de...
More difficult weather re-arranged the Tour de France again, but a shortened Stage 20 confirmed that Colombia’s Egan Bernal is set to win the...
CYCLING: Stage 19 cut short thanks to a hailstorm that gives Colombia’s Egan Bernal...
It was happening all over again. A fabulous climb by 22-year-old Egan Bernal of Colombia over the highest peak of the 2019 Tour de...
CYCLING: Alaphilippe flies down the Alps to keep the yellow jersey while Quintana steals...
The experts predicted, yet again, that France’s Julian Alaphilippe would lose his lead on the brutal 18th stage of the 2019 Tour de France...
CYCLING: Trentin breaks away to win Tour de France stage 17, but the Alps...
One of the most compelling editions of the Tour de France in recent memory is now at the decisive stage, with Thursday’s brutal triple...
LANE ONE: Welcome to the best week of the Olympic-sport summer: FINA Worlds, Tour...
If you want to be up on your friends on who to look for in Tokyo in 2020, this would be a good week...
CYCLING: Good day for Britain, as Simon Yates win stage 15 and Thomas claws...
The unrelenting pressure of one of the hardest routes in the history of the Tour de France continued on Sunday, with defending champion Geraint...
CYCLING: The pain was worth the gain, as Alaphilippe now up 2:02 on Thomas...
Brutal, uphill climbing stages are what win major stage races like the Tour de France. Saturday’s final climb up the Col de Tourmalet in...
CYCLING: Alaphilippe stuns cycling world with Stage 13 Time Trial win!
The Individual Time Trial in the 13th stage of the 2019 Tour de France was supposed to be the day that defending champion Geraint...
CYCLING: Alaphilippe still wearing the yellow jersey, but will he survive Friday’s time trial?
The 12th stage of the 2019 Tour de France looked like a difference maker on the schedule, with two massive climbs over the Col...
CYCLING: Favorites Alaphilippe, Thomas and Bernal 1-2-3 in the Tour de France heading into...
Sometimes it takes a while in a long stage race for the dramatis personae to be matched up in the standings and for the...
CYCLING: Van Vleuten dominates the Giro Rosa, and women’s cycling while Alaphilippe leads the...
The two largest events in men’s and women’s cycling ran concurrently in two different countries on Sunday. While French rider Julian Alaphilippe continued to...
CYCLING: Teuns masters first climbing stage while Ciccone takes the yellow jersey in Tour...
The first real climbing stage of the 2019 Tour de France was an exercise in exhaustion that started at an elevation of 251 m...
CYCLING: Five stages, five different winners in Tour de France; van Vleuten crushing Giro...
We’re only in the early stages of the Tour de France, with the opening routes mostly tailored for the sprinters ahead of Friday’s first...
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