LANE ONE: Tokyo Games will have spectators, as organizers and Japanese government hold true...
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LANE ONE: LA28 picks up the pace on sponsorships, while 2019 financials show slowed...
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LANE ONE: NBC warms up the country before Tokyo: two weeks of U.S. Olympic...
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LANE ONE: IOC Executive Board recommends Brisbane for 2032, showing the IOC’s path forward...
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LANE ONE: The power of the Olympics is limited, but isn’t it the international...
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LANE ONE: IOC CoComm happy with Paris 2024, because it needs the French to...
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LANE ONE: Naomi Osaka’s French Open withdrawal only the latest athlete vs. media mental-health...
Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka of Japan withdrew from the French Open tennis tournament on Monday, declaring on Twitter, in part:
“The truth is that I...
LANE ONE: IOC Athletes’ Forum endorses “10 Commandments” for Tokyo; Bach says Olympics is...
The International Olympic Committee’s 10th International Athletes’ Forum was held online on Wednesday and Thursday, with a focus on a variety of issues beyond...
LANE ONE: Bad news for anti-Olympic whiners: Tokyo Games will go on, and it...
The roller-coaster ride that has been the Games of the XXXII Olympiad just whipped through another barrel roll with not only an assurance that...
LANE ONE: For Tokyo and beyond, the IOC should heed the Captain’s warning on...
“What we've got here is ... failure to communicate.”
That immortal line came from the iconic 1967 prison drama, “Cool Hand Luke,” starring Paul Newman...
LANE ONE: College football showed that being “athlete-centric” means the Tokyo 2020 Games will...
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The news reports from Japan are filled with anti-Olympic petitions and polls,...
LANE ONE: Revisionist Olympic historians beware; the veterans of Los Angeles 1984 are watching...
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In today’s edgy, confrontational, only-my-facts-are-right environment, even experts sometimes go astray. A...
LANE ONE: British sprinter Gemili wants to protest at the Tokyo Games, since no...
Sad, so sad, but so true.
Adam Gemili, Britain’s powerfully built, two-time Olympic sprinter, with bests of 9.97 from 2015 and 19.97 from 2016, is...
LANE ONE: Is the skiing world ready for energy and evangelism? It could get...
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“So I have the vision to transform...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Tokyo 2020 plans heavier testing; Australia backs Brisbane ‘32 finances; U.S....
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Games of the XXXII Olympiad: Tokyo 2020 ● The Tokyo organizers are...
LANE ONE: China’s impact: 14% of all votes in IOC Athletes’ Commission survey of...
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Voting matters, and Chinese athletes did so early and often, helping to shape...
LANE ONE: IOC Athletes’ Commission recommends no protests on podium or ceremonies at Games;...
“Essentially, nothing really changes for athletes as far as field-of–play, ceremonies, podiums are concerned; everything remains the same as far as that angle is...
LANE ONE: Beijing 2022 is the IOC’s new challenge as it wrestles with changes...
/Updated/Last month’s opening day of the FIFA World Cup 2022 qualification matches in Europe’s Group G saw Norway win, as expected, at Gibraltar by...
LANE THREE: At Team USA Media Summit, U.S. fans are “catching up” to women’s...
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Last of a three-part review of last week’s online...
LANE TWO: At Team USA Media Summit, Crouser throws medicine balls into bridges; diving...
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/Updated/Last week’s online Team USA Media Summit gave Olympic and Paralympic athletes and...
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