German athletes demand 25% of IOC revenue because Olympic sports are irrelevant
TSX HEADLINES – for May 30, 2018: An open letter to International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach from the Athletes Commission of the German...
The SafeSport Code is the U.S. standard for conduct in Olympic sports. What does...
TSX HEADLINES – for May 28, 2018: The core of the United States Olympic Committee’s response to the sexual abuse scandal engulfing multiple sports...
Thanks to Larry Nassar, being a coach or a team doctor is going to...
TSX HEADLINES – for May 25, 2018: The House sub-committee hearing on the sexual abuse of Olympic athletes on Thursday painted a picture of...
As a team, Team USA ranks 85th; pretty good for two Games every four...
TSX HEADLINES – for May 23, 2018: One of the positive aspects of the digital age is that audiences can be measured with more...
City of L.A. planning a light show for the 2028 Games; is that a...
TSX HEADLINES – for May 21, 2018: The chief of the Bureau of Street Lighting for the City of Los Angeles is already planning...
Katie Ledecky’s Star Trek problem: To boldly go where no one has gone before?
TSX HEADLINES – for May 18, 2018: In her first swim as a professional athlete, Katie Ledecky set a world record in the 1,500...
The future of Olympic sport isn’t on television, or is it?
TSX HEADLINES – for May 16, 2018: Your beautiful new, flat-screen television is about to become useless for watching Olympic sports.
The move to online...
An unhappy stroll through doping control in PyeongChang
TSX HEADLINES – for May 14, 2018: The Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang had their problems right from the start. Some were easy to...
IAAF schedule for Doha’s 2019 Worlds admits track & field is boring
TSX HEADLINES – for May 11, 2018: The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced the schedule for its 2019 World Championships in Doha...
The day the Olympic Movement started back up: 8 May 1984
TSX HEADLINES – for May 9, 2018: It didn’t seem like it at the time, but the momentous events of the 8th of May,...
Doesn’t the IOC need a RICO-in-reverse law to fight doping?
TSX HEADLINES – for May 7, 2018: For decades, U.S. prosecutors could not convict the leaders of organized crime because these “bosses” were not...
Combine “Just Say No” with a zero-sum policy to stifle Olympic expansion
TSX HEADLINES – for May 4, 2018: Somewhere deep inside the Tokyo government and the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee, a staff member is shaking...
The problems of promoting Olympic sport: Water Polo needs to deal with Why
TSX HEADLINES – for May 2, 2018: The international aquatics federation called a special conference to consider what to do about water polo.
Simply put,...
Still a lot of doping going on: 1,595 positives in 2016
TSX HEADLINES – for Apr. 30, 2018: The World Anti-Doping Agency published its report on doping violations for 2016, and there were more than...
Finances of the International Federations, in dollars, Euro, francs and Pounds: Part II
TSX HEADLINES – for Apr. 27, 2018: The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations governance study said 21 of the 28 IFs had publicly-available...
Finances of the International Federations, in dollars and francs: Part I
TSX HEADLINES – for Apr. 25, 2018: Last week’s governance report on the 28 International Sports Federations on the permanent program of the Olympic...
The new Games: on the beach, in town, maybe in combat?
TSX HEADLINES – for Apr. 23, 2018: The Olympic Games is the pinnacle of sports. But it is not the beginning or the end.
Two...
A perfect storm could lead the IOC to a new, worldwide relevance
TSX HEADLINES – for Apr. 20, 2018: Almost everything seems to be going wrong for the International Olympic Committee right now, but that may...
Is the IOC now getting ready to tackle Anti-Semitism?
TSX HEADLINES – for Apr. 18, 2018: The ancient plague of anti-Semitism was visited on the Olympic Movement last week when the government of...
Biathlon raid shows the Russian question is not going away
TSX HEADLINES – for Apr. 16, 2018: Austrian authorities raided the office of the International Biathlon Union in Salzburg last week and Norwegian police...
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