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LANE ONE: Gymnasts’ letter calling for USOPC Board removal includes striking inconsistencies, and dangers...
(Errata: Some readers of Sunday’s story on USA Fencing saw the
new Board Chair listed as Donald Arias. It is David Arias.)
“Today, we write...
THE BIG PICTURE: USA Fencing Board removes Board Chair Burchard after 14 months in...
USA Fencing is shaking apart, with the resignation of longtime Executive Director Kris Ekeren and now the removal of Board Chair Peter Burchard, only...
PANORAMA: U.S. men edge Costa Rica, 2-1, in World Cup qualifying; call to dissolve...
Key status updates on the urgent stories in Olympic sport:
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Despite giving up a goal in the first minute, the U.S. Men’s National...
THE TICKER: Hockey Stars awards yield protests and 300,000 fan contacts; Commonwealth Games reduces...
The latest news, notes and quotes from the worldwide Five-Ring Circus:
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The annual “Hockey Stars” awards program by the Federation Internationale de Hockey...
LANE ONE: FINA publishes roadmap for systemic change on doping, governance, integrity, marketing and...
(For coverage of today's 2021 Boston Marathon, click here.)
Money can’t buy happiness, or respect. But it allows you to try harder.
The international federation for...
ATHLETICS: Kenya’s Kipruto (2:09:51) and Kipyokei (2:24:25) win Boston Marathon; Flanagan finishes back-to-back runs...
A runaway attempt failed on the men’s side of the 125th Boston Marathon on Monday, but a late attack secured a win in the...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: WADA suspends Moscow lab again; U.S. men lose, 1-0, at Panama;...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
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When the World Anti-Doping Agency suspends a testing laboratory, often for...
PANORAMA: Team USA Council asks 20% of USOPC hires to be social-justice compliant by...
Key status updates on the urgent stories in Olympic sport:
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The third set of recommendations from the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee’s Team...
LANE ONE: Has IOC chief Bach proposed his successor? Kirsty Coventry named chair of...
While hardly unexpected, the choice of Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry as the head of the International Olympic Committee’s Coordination Commission for the Games of the...
THE TICKER: Hazdic abuse fight continues to roil USA Fencing; Spanish star Pau Gasol...
The latest news, notes and quotes from the worldwide Five-Ring Circus:
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One of the strangest events of the Tokyo Games has morphed into...
LANE ONE: Salt Lake City organizers to visit IOC in November, in talks with...
“We’re ready. ... I want to make sure that we convey that message that we’re ready. We’re ready to move forward and we’re ready...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: NWSL cancels weekend matches, commissioner resigns; USA Gymnastics settlement plan 75%...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
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National Women’s Soccer League in turmoil
A stunning turn of events led...
THE BIG PICTURE: McLaren Report confirms corruption in boxing judging in Rio 2016; more...
“AIBA has had a long history of match manipulation and corruption.”
That’s a bad way to start a 152-page finding into match fixing at the...
THE TICKER: Beijing 2022 to only allow Chinese spectators; China’s ice hockey team may...
The latest news, notes and quotes from the worldwide Five-Ring Circus:
● Games of the XXXII Olympiad: Tokyo 2020 ● The wrap-up of the 2020...
LANE ONE: Olympics haters still angry, but continue losing ground as hosting and sports...
The situation in Tokyo last April was a tough one for the Olympic organizers, amid rising coronavirus infection rates and a slow government response....
HEARD AT HALFTIME: “Coastal Rowing” coming to LA28?; Suriname V.P. plays in own club’s...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport/updated/:
● Games of the XXXIV Olympiad: Los Angeles 2028 ● The International Olympic...
LANE ONE: IOC-led “pivot to Africa” is real as UCI votes for 2025 Road...
Let’s be clear: FIFA planted the first flag of a major world championship on the African continent with the 2010 World Cup held in...
THE BIG PICTURE: USOPC Chair Lyons says “entirely possible” that no spectators will be...
United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee Board chair Susanne Lyons indicated that spectator attendance at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games may be severely...
THE TICKER: Paris 2024 coin program revealed; USA Gymnastics bankruptcy settlement getting closer; vote...
The latest news, notes and quotes from the worldwide Five-Ring Circus:
● Games of the XXXIII Olympiad: Paris 2024 ● The Monnaie de Paris –...
LANE ONE: The shouting over a biennial FIFA World Cup gets louder and louder;...
"Are we really convinced that playing qualifying games in September, October, November, March, June, September, October, November, March for a competition which takes place...