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: Diack trial postponed after son’s testimony shows up from Senegal
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
The new year has barely begun and the headlines are all about doping,...
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...
LANE ONE: The top stories coming in 2020, part 2: More courtroom drama, more...
Look for tumultuous year on and off the field of play in 2020, with the Tokyo Games coming, but a lot of drama before...
LANE ONE: The top stories coming in 2020, part 1: Showdowns coming in Tokyo!...
The calendar has turned and we are now in the Olympic year of 2020. But although the Tokyo Games will be the top story...
GLOBETROTTING by Phil Hersh: With gold haul from world meets, Biles and Dressel get...
Courage was the key word on the international sports scene in 2019.
Competitive courage, like the grit alpine skier Lindsey Vonn showed in making her...
LANE ONE: The top stories of 2019, from no. 5 to no. 1, a...
Let there be no doubt, this was a wild year in Olympic sport, and as with so many areas today, full of contention, argument...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Russian strategy for doping case now plain; Women’s World Cup could...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Doping ● What appears to be a coordinated Russian strategy to contest...
LANE ONE: The top stories of 2019, from no. 10 to no. 6, and...
As 2019 comes to a close, there were people, places and events that made a bid impression in this pre-Olympic year. We’ll bring you...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Russia appeals; PR star Pete Cava passes suddenly, another 2012 positive
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● RUSADA confirms sanctions appeal to CAS ● To the surprise of absolutely...
LANE ONE: Is anything going on in world sport besides Russia and doping? Yes,...
There’s the NFL heading toward the playoffs and the baseball Hot Stove League is on fire right now, but in the Olympic world, all...
LANE ONE: World Athletics and The Athletics Association should be talking schedule, not events
Though the focus of the Olympic world is on what will happen to Russia at Monday’s World Anti-Doping Agency meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, there...
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...
LANE ONE: Did the IOC just cut the size of the 2032 Olympic Village...
For more than a century, the International Olympic Committee asked cities to stage its Olympic Games, often requiring the building of new housing, hotels...
LANE ONE: Fiction becomes Olympic reality in Russia: “You arrogant ass. You’ve killed us!”
The dramatic climax to the 1990 thriller “The Hunt for Red October” saw the ultra-aggressive Captain Tupolev trying to torpedo the runaway Soviet submarine...
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: Athlete shrieking over the Diamond League obscures the real issue; world...
≡ TSX INTELLIGENCE REPORT ~ 11 November 2019 ≡
● LANE ONE ● Athlete shrieking over dropped Diamond League events misses the point completely
When the...
LANE ONE: Athlete shrieking over dropped Diamond League events misses the point completely
Last Wednesday, the IAAF announced the 24 events that would be contested during the 2020 Diamond League season. The 12 events for both men...
TSX INTEL REPORT: IAAF takes lead, and UCI joins, on transgender regulations; WADA chief-to-be...
≡ TSX INTELLIGENCE REPORT ~ 7 November 2019 ≡
● LANE ONE ● IAAF taking the lead in transgender regulation, working with other IFs on testosterone levels
It...
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