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1984 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: Panic! Trump is taking over the 2028 Games! The sky is falling! Waaah! Hey, calm down already

1984 Olympic Games

LOS ANGELES 2028: L.A. Metro request for $3.2 billion in Federal transportation funding help comes up empty in FY26 budget proposal

1984 Olympic Games

LOS ANGELES 2028: L.A. Metro asks Trump transition team for $3.2 billion for 2028 Olympic projects

1996 Olympic Games

PANORAMA: All-women Athlos NYC meet on Thursday; FIFA in trouble on Club World Cup sales? $1.2 million in swim World Cup prizes

1996 Olympic Games

SPORTS SCIENCE: Academics and researchers in 10 countries ask for imposition of early-age “sports sex” testing

2024 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: Fantastique! The athletes were great, but Paris and the French were what made this Olympic Games golden

1996 Olympic Games

PARIS 2024 Review & Preview: Titmus wins women’s 400 Free, U.S. takes men’s 4×1 Free relay; yes, the opening was “political”

2024 Olympic Games

TSX REPORT: IBA to pay $3.1 million in Paris Olympic prizes; good TV audience for Pre Classic; Torch Relay proceeds “without major incident”

1912 Olympic Games

TSX REPORT: IBA’s choice for a new U.S. federation might not matter; FIFA won’t show Women’s World Cup in Europe without more money!

Athletics

LANE ONE: New biography of coach John Chaplin shows him a stickler for rules, a coaching savant, and a one-man personal-support army

2020 Olympic Games

TSX REPORT: Shiffrin gets 78th World Cup win in Austria; Belarus gives Olympic medalist Herasimena 12 years; remembering Manolo Romero

1996 Olympic Games

TSX REPORT: Olympic torch sells for $720,000; U.S. women lose to Spain, 2-0; abuse scandals at NWSL and Hockey Canada continue to expand

1996 Olympic Games

TSX REPORT: Ingebrigtsen gets world lead in Lausanne; 1.47 million attend Euro Champs; lessons in government relations from World Games ‘22

1972 Olympic Games

TSX REPORT: World Athletics starts U.S. fan-dev program with video series; Qatar World Cup starts 20 November; Brisbane 2032 costs already in dispute

1896 Olympic Games

HEARD AT HALFTIME: IOC study shows London 1948 and 1908 the best venue recyclers, Athens 2004 the biggest builder; more ModPent drama!

5-Ring Circus

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Int’l Boxing Association on the hot seat at IOC meetings; no Olympics “tantamount to death”; Sha’Carri Richardson unlucky in love

1996 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: Dressel and Ledecky swim world leaders at U.S. Int’l Team Trials; Atlanta ‘96 canoe slalom site burns down; Chloe Kim taking a...

2020 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: USOPC re-structuring tosses Adams and Penn; could New Balance’s showy new facility galvanize others? Riders in limbo via UCI’s harsh ban rules

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Athletics

ATHLETICS: Thrilling Diamond League Final in Zurich, with U.S. wins for Coleman, Lyles, Patterson, Tinch, Brown and 28 straight for Allman!

5-Ring Circus

PANORAMA: Int’l Paralympic Committee saw better attitudes on disabilities from Paris 2024; Enhanced Games sues WADA, World Aquatics, USA Swimming

2028 Olympic Games

LOS ANGELES 2028: Diving moves to Pasadena, LA28 to refit ‘32 Swim Stadium and City Council members demand local procurement

Athletics

ATHLETICS: Olyslagers gets world lead in thriller vs. Mahuchikh in Diamond League Final, with U.S. wins for Kovacs and Moon

2028 Olympic Games

SCENE & HEARD: Has USA Swimming found a new chief? L.A. City Council member demands all ceremonies be held at the Coliseum!