Tag: USA Track & Field
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...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● XIX Pan American Games 2023 ● The organizing committee of the 2023...
ATHLETICS Panorama: Lananna restored to USATF Presidency by Court of Arbitration for Sport
Hours before the opening of the 2019 USA Track & Field Annual Meeting in Reno, Nevada, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ordered that...
TSX INTEL REPORT: Nike’s critics look to the past, but Mary Cain is about...
≡ TSX INTELLIGENCE REPORT ~ 14 November 2019 ≡
● LANE ONE ● Nike’s critics look to the past, but Mary Cain asks about Nike’s T&F future
Mary Cain’s...
LANE ONE: Nike’s critics look to the past, but Mary Cain asks about Nike’s...
The “Opinion” video by Mary Cain that was posted by The New York Times on 7 November drew added focus – and outrage –...
TSX INTEL REPORT: More events to be moved from Tokyo due to heat? Here...
= TSX INTELLIGENCE REPORT ~ 1 November 2019 =
● LANE ONE ● IOC moves Tokyo marathons and walks, but are there still more events to be moved?
The International...
TSX DAILY: USOPC Hall of Fame elects Smith and Carlos, making athlete sanction threats...
≡ TSX DAILY ~ 25 September 2019 ≡
| 1. | LANE ONE: USOPC Hall of Fame committee selections renders USOPC's protest sanctions toothless
Much was made...
ATHLETICS: Levchenko defeats Lasitskene as Europe jumps and throws past U.S., 724.5-601.5
A pretty good European team had no trouble outscoring a mid-level U.S. team, especially in the field events, and won The Match: USA vs....
ATHLETICS: World leader for high jumper Nedasekau at The Match: USA vs. Europe in...
The marks weren’t the best and the Dinamo Stadium in Minsk was maybe half full. But “The Match: USA vs. Europe" was fun to...
TSX DAILY: Track & field fans who want the sport to be more popular...
≡ TSX DAILY ~ 23 August 2019 ≡
| 1. | LANE ONE: If you think track & field could once again be a high-profile sport,...
LANE ONE: If you think track & field could once again be a high-profile...
People who care deeply about track & field in the United States decry the low profile the sport has today. The symptoms are obvious:...
TSX DAILY: If you’re looking for sponsorship, the only thing worse than track really...
= TSX DAILY ~ 14 August 2019 =
| 1. | LANE ONE: If you’re a track & field athlete and looking for sponsorship, there isn’t...
LANE ONE: If you’re looking for sponsorship, the only thing worse than track really...
The recent USA Track & Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, were not only the selection meet for the United States team for the...
PAN AMERICAN GAMES: Nothing miraculous about U.S. women dominating wrestling, as well as two...
Among the wrestling cognoscenti, the power of the United States women’s program is well known, but after four victories and a silver medal at...
LANE ONE: Lima has done well, but what is the future of the Pan...
If you have been watching the XVIII Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, you have seen some compelling competition and some amazing stories, the...
LANE ONE: “The World Championships aren’t important. The Olympics are important.”
Olympic sport is often ignored in the U.S., even at the level of the World Championships, when the same athletes who will be in...
ATHLETICS: Lomong defends 10,000 m title with blistering last lap, while Felix advances at...
The USA Track & Field National Championships got busy on Thursday and Lopez Lomong knew he would have to do something special to be...
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