Tag: Olympic boycott
THE TICKER: Tokyo may be the only Olympic opportunity for 8,174 athletes; EOPAAA Commission...
The latest news, notes and quotes from the worldwide Five-Ring Circus:
● Games of the XXXII Olympiad: Tokyo 2020 ● Calls to cancel the Tokyo...
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)...
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: Coronavirus, Beijing, Larry Nassar, weightlifting, doping: is the apocalypse right around the...
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In December, 1776, American political activist Thomas Paine began his first American Crisis...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Dane and Reese first appointees to EOPAAA Commission; NBC signs for...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
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THE BIG PICTURE: Tokyo 2020 moves forward slowly, but talk about the Games is...
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HEARD AT HALFTIME: WADA slaps U.S. ONDCP report; Russia’s Ganus says no to suicide...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Vox Populi ● Further to last Friday’s story (17th), in which International...
THE BIG PICTURE: Bach warns of new boycott threats; Tokyo confirms venues; IOC approves...
Amidst the concerns for the staging of the next Olympic Games in Tokyo, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach (GER) opened the 136th IOC...
LANE ONE: USOC’s transformative spokesman, Mike Moran, passes at 78
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LANE ONE: Remembering the worst day in the history of the U.S. Olympic Movement:...
Forty years ago, the United States Olympic Committee faced a choice it hopes never to face again. Mike Moran served as the chief spokesman...
Anita DeFrantz on the 1980 boycott: “It still is extremely painful”
PALM DESERT, October 23, 2017 – Anita DeFrantz rose to fame by suing the United States Olympic Committee to allow American athletes – including...
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