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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?

1976 Olympic Games

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Bach stresses unity; Coleman suspended for two years; Leeper loses CAS appeal over prostheses; is NFL’s D.K. Metcalf really so fast?

2020 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: Sensational Diamond League opener, with 12:35.36 5,000 m WR for Cheptegei; Aussie aths say no to OG protests; remembering Sport Intern’s K-H...

2020 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: Pound opines if Tokyo ‘21 cancels, so might Beijing ‘22; The Athletics Association launches; ISU now has $281 million in reserves!

2020 Olympic Games

MILLER TIME: Thomas Bach’s bid to upstage Sisyphus

2020 Olympic Games

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Track not dead; UK Sports asks for more money; UK Athletics “couldn’t get any worse”; Ritz retires and Lewis says “dream...

1896 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: Was Juan Antonio Samaranch, the man who made the IOC modern, its greatest president?

2020 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: “All of us, we have to look at whether we are going to do exactly the same in a year from now,...

5-Ring Circus

LANE ONE: De Coubertin’s 1892 Olympic-revival manifesto is back in Lausanne, but what did it actually say?

5-Ring Circus

LANE ONE: The IOC hands out lots of medals, but soon might be in line for one itself

5-Ring Circus

HEARD AFTER HALFTIME: Lyles to run only 200 m at USATF Nationals; Rakhimov resigns as AIBA chief

1984 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: Remembering the day the Olympic Movement didn’t collapse: 8 May 1984

1972 Olympic Games

HEARD AFTER HALFTIME: Raelene Boyle rightly calls on the IOC to redress East German doping … and Jim Thorpe agrees!

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Bach’s embrace of Russia a re-run of an old Samaranch movie

Alpine Skiing

Bach’s embrace of Russia a re-run of an old Samaranch movie

Badminton

Case study: How IOC President Juan Samaranch outlasted North Korea

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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!