THE TICKER: Tokyo 2020+1 marks year-to-go; FINA relief project up to $6.46 million; Michael...
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THE BIG PICTURE: Tokyo 2020 moves forward slowly, but talk about the Games is...
(★ Friends: Very grateful to have received 34 donations over the past month toward our server and support costs, covering about 70% of our...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: WADA slaps U.S. ONDCP report; Russia’s Ganus says no to suicide...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Vox Populi ● Further to last Friday’s story (17th), in which International...
LANE ONE: Was Juan Antonio Samaranch, the man who made the IOC modern, its...
In the continuing tumult over the future of the Tokyo Games and the worldwide struggle with the coronavirus, the 10-year anniversary of the passing...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: DeFrantz on spineless USOC ‘80 boycott vote; Bach slaps critics; is...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Games of the XXII Olympiad: Moscow 1980 ● Anita DeFrantz was a...
LANE ONE: Remembering the worst day in the history of the U.S. Olympic Movement:...
Forty years ago, the United States Olympic Committee faced a choice it hopes never to face again. Mike Moran served as the chief spokesman...
LANE ONE: In a crisis, discipline and focus are hard to maintain, as Tokyo...
The coronavirus is a major public-health crisis which is having impacts in many countries and is causing the cancellation, delay or implosion of mass...
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...
THE BIG PICTURE: IOC rejects sentimentalism and selects Milan-Cortina while L.A.’s Mayor says “I...
The International Olympic Committee made a clear choice for fiscal and political reality with the selection of the Milan-Cortina bid for the 2026 Olympic...
LANE ONE: The 39th anniversary of Jimmy Carter and the U.S. boycott of the...
For most people, 21 March is not a significant date on the annual calendar. But for more than 1,000 athletes trying to make the...
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