Tag: Beijing 2022
HEARD AT HALFTIME: WHO’s Ryan explains Olympic virus risk; sprint star Richardson ready to...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Games of the XXXII Olympiad: Tokyo 2020 ● The Tokyo Games continue...
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...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Coronavirus fears dampen Japan’s Games enthusiasm; group tells Stanford to restore...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Games of the XXXII Olympiad: Tokyo 2020 ● A Kyodo News poll...
LANE ONE: “Gotcha” reporting of “possible” U.S. boycott of Beijing 2022 was not just...
A commentary: In a November 2020 report on trust in news media, 69% of Americans thought “news organizations being too dramatic or too sensational...
THE BIG PICTURE: U.S. State Department exploring boycott of Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games...
/This story has been updated; for a full follow-up, click here/ U.S. Department of State spokesperson Ned Price said at a briefing today (6th)...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: North Korea to skip Tokyo? Japan’s leukemia survivor Ikee makes Tokyo...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Games of the XXXII Olympiad: Tokyo 2020 ● Japan’s Kyodo News Service...
LANE ONE: The IOC is not asleep; its new bidding system is designed avoid...
It’s pretty clear that the International Olympic Committee’s return to China as the host for the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in 2022 is going...
THE BIG PICTURE: Mitt Romney’s “The Right Way to Boycott the Beijing Olympics”
Former Massachusetts Governor, former President of the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Winter Games organizing committee and current U.S. Senator from Utah Mitt Romney...
LANE ONE: IOC approves Olympic Agenda 2020+5 after six-hour discussion; Tokyo spectator decision not...
For those who expected the International Olympic Committee’s discussion of the 15-part Olympic Agenda 2020+5 to be completed by a voice vote in less...
THE BIG PICTURE: New USOPC Board readies for Tokyo, wants no Beijing boycott, still...
While the International Olympic Committee was re-electing Thomas Bach, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee was also busy with its own Board meetings, concluding...
LANE ONE: Thomas Bach wins re-election as IOC President by 93-1, asks for “more...
The second consecutive annual meeting of the whole of the International Olympic Committee by videoconference concluded its first of three days with a 93-1...
LANE ONE: Coronavirus, Beijing, Larry Nassar, weightlifting, doping: is the apocalypse right around the...
Our Highlights of last weekend’s noteworthy competitions around the world is here.
In December, 1776, American political activist Thomas Paine began his first American Crisis...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: New York Rep. Katko calls for Beijing boycott, modest T&F television...
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HEARD AT HALFTIME: IOC presents “Olympic Agenda 2020+5″; new U.S. athlete leaders; Shiffrin wins...
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LANE ONE: Calls for a Beijing 2022 boycott grow louder, but is the reference...
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LANE ONE: Canadian calls for a Beijing 2022 boycott echo Jimmy Carter almost exactly...
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THE TICKER: Arbitration panel “all about the athletes” to trim WADA sanctions on Russia;...
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THE TICKER: What the WADA court win really means for Russian athletes; IOC’s 2024-28...
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THE BIG PICTURE: Russia banned for two years by Court of Arbitration for Sport,...
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THE TICKER: Bach’s path to re-election is clear; Tokyo move to 2021 costs $2.82...
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