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2024 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: WADA chief rejects “shouters”; France has Paris 2024 tech worries with China’s Alibaba; medals for U.S.’s Alwine and Rogers at IWF Worlds!

2028 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: Joy for the three new sports for LA28, but stormy weather ahead for others; could Sapporo & Salt Lake get a double...

5-Ring Circus

LANE TWO: An under-appreciated legend in his own time: remembering track promoter Al Franken

2020 Olympic Games

HEARD AT HALFTIME: White House announces Beijing 2022 diplomatic boycott; Salt Lake City encouraged by IOC meeting; Tokyo 2020 cost savings!

5-Ring Circus

LANE ONE: USA Track & Field membership rejects USOPC-requested governance changes at Annual Meeting

Alpine Skiing

HIGHLIGHTS: Two bobsled World Cup wins for new citizen Humphries; Ledecky in amazing form at U.S. Open; third World Cup skating win for Erin...

2028 Olympic Games

PANORAMA: Los Angeles City Council passes LA28 Games Agreement; USA Gymnastics reorg plan passes; world and U.S. records at ISL Final

2028 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: WTA rocks world sport with suspension of China tournaments; new track coming to the L.A. Coliseum; pentathletes claim Congress victory?

5-Ring Circus

LANE ONE: USA Track & Field Annual Meeting starts today, as members consider disenfranchisement and reported grand jury probe

2020 Olympic Games

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Covid variant causes Winter WUG cancellation 13 days out; 1980s star sprinter Emmit King killed; U.S. women end 2021 with 1-1...

2016 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: A low point for Olympic sport: athletes revolt against UIPM for riding removal; Rio 2016 chief Nuzman sentenced to 30+ years for...

2028 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: L.A. City Council hearing on LA28 agreement Monday; World Athletics reports abuse on Twitter during Tokyo Games; pentathletes want riding retained

5-Ring Circus

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Another new track & field league? Beijing 2022 part of “ideological clash” with the West; U.S.’s Papandrea wants to modernize weightlifting

5-Ring Circus

LANE ONE: China’s own system created the Peng Shuai drama, and now they can’t get out of it

2024 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: World Athletics reveals 2022-30 “World Plan”; 13 more weightlifting dopers from 2012; how about a visual tour of ancient Olympia?

5-Ring Circus

THE BIG PICTURE: How USA Fencing & USA Track & Field sidelined their elected presidents, at the urging of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic...

5-Ring Circus

LANE ONE: IOC introduces “framework” on transgender and hyperandrogenism in women athletes, but no rules and no timetable

2012 Olympic Games

HEARD AT HALFTIME: U.S.’s Kynard awarded 2012 high jump win; “League of Legends” for LA28?; more Modern Pentathlon chaos

5-Ring Circus

THE TICKER: Beijing to deliver “extraordinary Games” in February, while trade confederation gives Beijing Games “gold medal for repression”; USATF names 2021 Hall of...

2020 Olympic Games

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Is the new Modern Pentathlon discipline already selected? PlayLA youth sports program starts with LA28/IOC funds; 2028 rowing moves to Long...

Athletics

HIGHLIGHTS: Kenyans Jepchirchir and Korir sweep NYC Marathon; U.S. wins two World Boxing golds and two silvers

2020 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: China’s men hockey team will be in Winter Games; get your Misha doll now; UIPM could trade horses for bikes?

2020 Olympic Games

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Romney proposes diplomatic boycott law for Beijing 2022; Japanese voters liked Olympic hosting; remember ski jumping at Dodger Stadium?

5-Ring Circus

THE TICKER: Vancouver Olympic interest cools; now Ukraine’s doping org is cheating; U.S. women win 6-0 in Carli Lloyd farewell

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