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THE TICKER: L.A. City Council hearing on LA28 agreement Monday; World Athletics reports abuse...
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The seven-member Los Angeles City Council’s Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Another new track & field league? Beijing 2022 part of “ideological...
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/Updated/How about another new U.S. track & field league?
During the pandemic,...
LANE ONE: China’s own system created the Peng Shuai drama, and now they can’t...
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Truth is very much stranger than any fiction, with an accusation of sexual abuse turning...
HIGHLIGHTS: Jackson and Bowe post World Cup skating wins again; Peterson wins U.S. women’s...
Headline results of noteworthy competitions around the world/updated/:
● Alpine Skiing ● Two FIS Alpine World Cup slaloms for women were held in the north...
THE TICKER: World Athletics reveals 2022-30 “World Plan”; 13 more weightlifting dopers from 2012;...
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World Athletics revealed its ballyhooed “World Athletics Plan 2022-30" at the World...
LANE ONE: City of Los Angeles releases text of proposed “Games Agreement” with Los...
It’s still almost seven years until the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad and XVIII Paralympic Games in Los Angeles, but the City and the...
THE BIG PICTURE: How USA Fencing & USA Track & Field sidelined their elected...
/Updated/One of the cornerstones of American democracy in the 21st Century is direct election of leaders at the local, regional and national level. But...
LANE ONE: IOC introduces “framework” on transgender and hyperandrogenism in women athletes, but no...
“I think we can clearly say: we have not found the solution to this big question which is out there. But what we have...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: U.S.’s Kynard awarded 2012 high jump win; “League of Legends” for...
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American Erik...
HIGHLIGHTS: U.S. men club Mexico to take CONCACAF World Cup lead; Erin Jackson &...
Headline results of noteworthy competitions around the world:
● Alpine Skiing ● The second event of the FIS World Cup season was a showcase for...
LANE ONE: Early numbers show collegiate Name-Image-Likeness is mostly about football, men’s basketball and...
It’s early in the Name-Image-Likeness game in NCAA circles, but the conventional wisdom that the new rules would favor big-school college football and men’s...
THE TICKER: Beijing to deliver “extraordinary Games” in February, while trade confederation gives Beijing...
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“We are very grateful to our friends in Beijing, actually, because they...
LANE ONE: Beijing 2022 breakdown shows “gender equality” at 48-42%, but “event equality” at...
The XXIV Olympic Winter Games is coming up fast in Beijing, with the Chinese organizers continuing to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, National Olympic...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Is the new Modern Pentathlon discipline already selected? PlayLA youth sports...
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The fight...
HIGHLIGHTS: Kenyans Jepchirchir and Korir sweep NYC Marathon; U.S. wins two World Boxing golds...
Headline results of noteworthy competitions around the world:
● Athletics ● The 50th running of the New York City Marathon was another showcase for Kenya,...
THE BIG PICTURE: Team USA Council on Racial Justice asks USOPC to acknowledge it...
“Acknowledge the Organization’s Role in Perpetuating Racial Inequities: The first step in creating antiracist environments devoid of discrimination is to acknowledge that the organizations...
LANE ONE: Modern Pentathlon to replace riding after Tokyo embarrassment, but with what?
(Errata: Reader Paul Roberts notes that the yesterday’s item about the European audience for the Tokyo Games for EuroSport was incomplete: it was 372...
THE TICKER: China’s men hockey team will be in Winter Games; get your Misha...
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“To be clear, the IIHF is not going to remove the Chinese...
LANE ONE: Future of gymnastics on the line as Watanabe and Gayibov battle for...
A record 130 national gymnastics federations will meet in the Turkish resort city of Antalya beginning on Friday for the 83rd FIG Congress, with...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Romney proposes diplomatic boycott law for Beijing 2022; Japanese voters liked...
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Utah Senator...