Tag: USA Track & Field
HEARD AT HALFTIME: U.S. Tokyo ticket buyers to lose 20% CoSport fee; Milan-Cortina logo...
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(For coverage of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee’s new protest regulations for...
LANE ONE: World Athletics Council agrees to allow Russian “neutral” athletes to compete in...
On its second of two days of online meetings, the World Athletics Council acted on the latest update from its Russia Task Force, chaired...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Tokyo 2020 to elect 12 women to board; massive changes to...
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● Games of the XXXV Olympiad: Tokyo 2020 ● The Tokyo 2020 organizing committee...
THE TICKER: First Tokyo 2020 playbook released; WADA declines to appeal RUSADA decision; $300...
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THE TICKER: More Tokyo virus concerns; Luvo Manyonga suspended for whereabouts; Tommy Lasorda passes...
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LANE ONE: Danger ahead: “The glory days of college athletics as we’ve known it,...
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HEARD AT HALFTIME: S. 2330 in repose for now; LA28 funds $2.48 million for...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee ● What has happened to S. 2330,...
THE TICKER: Get our 526-event Int’l Sports Calendar; how Tokyo will save $283 million;...
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THE TICKER: Tokyo 2020+1 marks year-to-go; FINA relief project up to $6.46 million; Michael...
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LANE ONE: Study shows U.S. colleges spent almost $1 billion on track & field...
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HEARD AT HALFTIME: What’s in the IOC’s $650 million cost for postponing Tokyo; Stefanidi...
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● Vox Populi ● We received a lot of response to Sunday’s Lane...
LANE ONE: When you disassemble Max Siegel’s $4.2 million comp reported for 2018, it...
Track and field insiders were agog on Wednesday when USA Track & Field’s Form 990 federal tax return was posted for 2018, showing chief...
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: USA Swimming confirms dates for 2021 Olympic Trials, but T&F faces a...
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● U.S. Olympic Trials ● The highest-profile U.S. Olympic Trials events had been lined...
LANE ONE: Did World Athletics give the U.S. a golden gift with July dates...
/Updated/ World Athletics announced on Wednesday that it had settled on dates of 15-24 July for its 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
That’s the...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Tokyo 2020 dates confirmed for 2021; domino effect on calendar begins;...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Games of the XXXII Olympiad: Tokyo 2020 ● To the surprise of...
LANE ONE: IOC followed World Health Organization advice, not athlete criticism, to arrive at...
The World Health Organization and Africa. Those were the triggers that led the International Olympic Committee to decide, in concert with the Japanese government...
LANE ONE: Vise is tightening on Tokyo 2020 as USA Swimming, USA Track &...
Until Friday, the calls for postponement or cancellation of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games had mostly come from individual athletes. Some were expansive, some...
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...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Chile proposes cheap Pan Am Games … at $507 million; the...
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● XIX Pan American Games 2023 ● The organizing committee of the 2023...