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Bob Beamon

1968 Olympic Games

TSX REPORT: Asuncion and Lima bid for 2027 Pan Ams; U.S. marathon trials on Saturday; Beamon’s 1968 gold goes for $441,000!

1968 Olympic Games

TSX REPORT: Beamon’s ‘68 long jump gold on auction; equestrian federation asked for 2028 Eventing revamp; Australia opts for A/C in Paris

1968 Olympic Games

TSX BULLETIN: Bob Beamon’s 1968 Olympic long jump gold up for auction on 1 February

2024 Olympic Games

TSX REPORT: Valieva hearing continued to November; World Gymnastics Champs open Saturday; first World Road Running Champs on Sunday

1960 Olympic Games

TSX REPORT: IBA to identify new U.S. boxing fed; remembering long jump superstar Ralph Boston; Ukraine aths will not compete with Russians

1968 Olympic Games

TSX REPORT: Griner enters strategic guilty plea in Moscow; Ukraine welcomed in Chula Vista; Canadian swimmer Harvey drugged at Worlds

2020 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: The Tokyo Games, Karsten Warholm, the USA Gymnastics settlement and more topped Olympic-world news in 2021

5-Ring Circus

LANE TWO: An under-appreciated legend in his own time: remembering track promoter Al Franken

2020 Olympic Games

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Former IOC chief Rogge passes at 79; Afghan Paralympians will compete in Tokyo; U.S. women in ice hockey Worlds final again

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2028 Olympic Games

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

International Olympic Committee

INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: Zimbabwe’s Coventry welcomed as new IOC chief in Lausanne ceremony, as Bach honored

International Olympic Committee

INT’L OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: Annual Report shows IOC distributed almost 74% of its revenues from 2021-24, and has $4.9 billion in the bank

2028 Olympic Games

PANORAMA: Roberts wins Paris 110H silver, is now unsponsored?! Senegal women’s hoopsters denied U.S. visas; three die in Algerian stadium crash

2028 Olympic Games

ATHLETICS: Jamaican media reports four field-event stars – Campbell, Stona, Pinnock and Hibbert – transferring to Turkey for big money