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2020 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: The power of the Olympics is limited, but isn’t it the international sports version of Make-A-Wish for athletes?

2024 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: IOC CoComm happy with Paris 2024, because it needs the French to re-shape the meaning of the Olympic Games (and LA28 too)

2020 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: Naomi Osaka’s French Open withdrawal only the latest athlete vs. media mental-health train wreck; ask Michael Phelps

2020 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: For Tokyo and beyond, the IOC should heed the Captain’s warning on communications from “Cool Hand Luke”

2020 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: British sprinter Gemili wants to protest at the Tokyo Games, since no one cares about him any other time

2020 Olympic Games

THE BIG PICTURE: Expanded Tokyo 2020 athletes and officials “playbook” mandates heavy preparation, daily testing, masks, and not much fun

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LANE ONE: China’s impact: 14% of all votes in IOC Athletes’ Commission survey of athlete attitudes on Olympic protests

1968 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: IOC Athletes’ Commission recommends no protests on podium or ceremonies at Games; sanctions deferred to Legal Commission

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THE BIG PICTURE: European Super League soccer concept radicalizes its opposition into solidarity on solidarity!

2020 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: Japan is serious, wants to chop foreign accreditees for Tokyo Games by 30,000 in added anti-Covid safety measure

2024 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: The IOC is not asleep; its new bidding system is designed avoid its current problems with Beijing 2022 and human rights

2020 Olympic Games

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Tokyo foreign spectator ban might come next week; LA28 adds Comcast as sponsor; Brisbane to get ‘32 in July?

2024 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: IOC’s Agenda 2020+5 “Road to the Games” initiative is about money: for athletes, continental Games and an IOC takeover?

2020 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: IOC approves Olympic Agenda 2020+5 after six-hour discussion; Tokyo spectator decision not final; human rights & Beijing 2022 collide

2032 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: IOC’s preference for Brisbane shows the bids of the future, and is perfect for Salt Lake City

2024 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: IOC’s Agenda 2020+5 eyes massive commercial expansion, new multi-sport competitions, and eSports as future Games events

1936 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: Calls for a Beijing 2022 boycott grow louder, but is the reference point 1980, or 1936? So what now?

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LANE ONE: New BCW report on International Federation communications begs the question: how really important is social media?

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LANE ONE: Canadian calls for a Beijing 2022 boycott echo Jimmy Carter almost exactly 41 years ago

2020 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: Ex-IOC member Gosper thinks United Nations could help “in arbitrating whether the Games go ahead or not”

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LANE ONE: Appointment of Edwin Moses and Han Xiao gives EOPAAA Commission 10 of 16 members needed; where are the others?

2028 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: “If the U.S. becomes a rogue state I think we will start looking at whether the Games in Los Angeles should proceed”

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LANE ONE: Is the Athlete’s Voice as important as anti-doping? What happens when they are in conflict? They are!

2020 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: IOC’s “Olympic Summit” needles U.S. Congress and USOPC, pushes away from “gaming”; is AIBA’s election of Kremlev its doom?

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