Olympic Agenda 2020+5

2020 Olympic Games

TSX REPORT: The story behind the IOC’s “Olympic Tickets”; FIG OKs 30 Belarusians as neutrals; a reprieve for Israel after all?

2024 Olympic Games

TSX REPORT: LA28 asks baseball-softball, cricket, flag, lacrosse and squash as adds; how will IOC handle Palestine and Iran? Could Hassan equal Zatopek?

5-Ring Circus

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Beijing 2022 playbooks released; 2019 World Beach Games cost $23.5 million; Bruce Jenner almost lit the ‘84 torch!

2020 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: Tokyo 2020 loses 10,000 volunteers, still has 70,000; federation elections; World Tri & UWW giving $318,000 to athletes for Tokyo

2024 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: IOC CoComm happy with Paris 2024, because it needs the French to re-shape the meaning of the Olympic Games (and LA28 too)

2020 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: For Tokyo and beyond, the IOC should heed the Captain’s warning on communications from “Cool Hand Luke”

2024 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: IOC’s Agenda 2020+5 “Road to the Games” initiative is about money: for athletes, continental Games and an IOC takeover?

2020 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: Thomas Bach wins re-election as IOC President by 93-1, asks for “more solidarity” but underlines limits of what IOC can or will...