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2024 Olympic Games

VOX POPULI: World Athletics ~ a threat to modern Olympism?

2020 Olympic Games

TSX REPORT: Paris 2024 opening ceremony crowd to be 300,000; Putin says ROC and Sports Ministry will decide if Russians go to Paris

2024 Olympic Games

VOX POPULI: Sport has a mission for peace – An appeal on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024

Athletics

VOX POPULI: Track & Field: Stupid Rules, and Stupider Management

5-Ring Circus

VOX POPULI: The Cup is full

5-Ring Circus

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Federations banning Russians en masse; Russian oligarch Usmanov steps down at FIE; Federal funds now supporting Oregon22

2020 Olympic Games

VOX POPULI: Why cancel the Olympics?

1980 Olympic Games

HEARD AT HALFTIME: WADA slaps U.S. ONDCP report; Russia’s Ganus says no to suicide (!), Ryan Crouser reaches 75-2!

5-Ring Circus

VOX POPULI: “Hire Jill Ellis” and a new way to think about 1:59:40!

5-Ring Circus

VOX POPULI: The IAAF Worlds in Doha got coverage in the L.A. Times!

5-Ring Circus

VOX POPULI: The Match: USA vs. Europe was “refreshing”

Athletics

VOX POPULI: Mixed-gender World Relays events were “refreshing, exciting, fun”

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2028 Olympic Games

PANORAMA: L.A.’s Metro transit facing “fiscal cliff”; Kipyegon tries for sub-4:00 mile Thursday; will Iran play in the U.S. at ‘26 World Cup?

International Olympic Committee

LANE ONE: Where does Thomas Bach rank among all the Presidents of the International Olympic Committee?

Ice Hockey

SPOTLIGHT: A Locked-in Jack Wallace led the U.S. Sled Hockey Team Back to the Top of the World

2020 Olympic Games

PANORAMA: Dentsu fined $2 million in Tokyo 2020 bid-rigging; French auditors say Paris 2024 cost $6.9 billion of public money, but Estanguet objects

2028 Olympic Games

ATHLETICS: Now Nigeria’s Ofili is changing allegiance to Turkey too, reportedly over federation incompetence, not money